Superior technical achievements – used correctly both strategically and tactically
ADOLF GALLANDIt is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot.
More Adolf Galland Quotes
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Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems
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If we could have had in ’44, ah, let’s say three hundred operational
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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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Never abandon the possibility of attack.
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I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type.
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According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
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That day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that’s for sure.
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At this time, the aircraft was completely secret.
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Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart,
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It’s unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.
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You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
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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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Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed.
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When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm
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This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.
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