And for the moment the whole burden of the war rested on the few hundred German fighter pilots on the Channel coast.
ADOLF GALLANDThe battle is tough but if you reach where you want to go, then at least in some sense it is worth it.
More Adolf Galland Quotes
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Later when asked what it felt like, I said, “It felt as though angels were pushing”.
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If we could have had in ’44, ah, let’s say three hundred operational
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I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.
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To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.
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And that’s when we did it. I think we did it.
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“He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing,” is one of the fundamental rules of defense.
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The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of ’42, in Russia.
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Which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.
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According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
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The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first.
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We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters
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This often results in improving one’s own position.
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The battle is tough but if you reach where you want to go, then at least in some sense it is worth it.
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Accompanied by a whistling sound, my jet shot through the air.
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The German Luftwaffe always fought without any reserves.
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