Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy’s plans.
ADOLF GALLANDWe have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters
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Or by bad luck can suffer from frustration or develop complexes they may never rid themselves of again.
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Aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.
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It’s unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.
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During the Battle of Britain the question “fighter or fighter-bomber?” had been decided once and for all
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Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy.
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“He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing,” is one of the fundamental rules of defense.
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And for the moment the whole burden of the war rested on the few hundred German fighter pilots on the Channel coast.
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Can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.
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And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.
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As interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
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This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.
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The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.
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The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first.
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I made a written report which is still today in existence.
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Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability.
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