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air commander

noun

Definition of air commander

: a military officer in charge of combat flight operations Standing orders dictated that no air commander could send out a two-group combat wing; the risk of total annihilation of such a small defensive force was too great.— Martin W. Bowman, Castles in the Air, 2000

First Known Use of air commander

1917, in the meaning defined above

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