Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy.
ADOLF GALLANDTheir element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy.
ADOLF GALLANDAnd 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.
ADOLF GALLANDLater when asked what it felt like, I said, “It felt as though angels were pushing”.
ADOLF GALLANDFlying is more than a sport and more than a job
ADOLF GALLANDLike the hunter who stalks his prey and maneuvers himself unnoticed into the most favourable position for the kill
ADOLF GALLANDNever abandon the possibility of attack.
ADOLF GALLANDThis often results in improving one’s own position.
ADOLF GALLANDAttack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy’s plans.
ADOLF GALLANDAs interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
ADOLF GALLANDAccording to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
ADOLF GALLAND“He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing,” is one of the fundamental rules of defense.
ADOLF GALLANDOr by bad luck can suffer from frustration or develop complexes they may never rid themselves of again.
ADOLF GALLANDThis aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.
ADOLF GALLANDI was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter.
ADOLF GALLANDTie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses
ADOLF GALLAND