This was my impression.
ADOLF GALLANDThis was my impression.
ADOLF GALLANDThis often results in improving one’s own position.
ADOLF GALLANDThat day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that’s for sure.
ADOLF GALLANDLater when asked what it felt like, I said, “It felt as though angels were pushing”.
ADOLF GALLANDPerhaps even more important than being a good pilot; to make the best use of this system.
ADOLF GALLANDThe German Luftwaffe always fought without any reserves.
ADOLF GALLANDAccompanied by a whistling sound, my jet shot through the air.
ADOLF GALLANDFlying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime.
ADOLF GALLAND“He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing,” is one of the fundamental rules of defense.
ADOLF GALLANDOf course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed.
ADOLF GALLANDI first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in ‘42 – even in my position.
ADOLF GALLANDWe couldn’t stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
ADOLF GALLANDAs interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
ADOLF GALLANDNever abandon the possibility of attack.
ADOLF GALLANDMany pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy.
ADOLF GALLANDThe colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down
ADOLF GALLAND