And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.
ADOLF GALLANDIf we could have had in ’44, ah, let’s say three hundred operational
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I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May ‘43.
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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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Like the hunter who stalks his prey and maneuvers himself unnoticed into the most favourable position for the kill
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Can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.
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This often results in improving one’s own position.
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You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
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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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I made a written report which is still today in existence.
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No engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller.
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Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy.
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And that’s when we did it. I think we did it.
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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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If we would have had the 262 at our disposal – even with all the delays
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We couldn’t stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
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