Flying is more than a sport and more than a job
ADOLF GALLANDFlying is more than a sport and more than a job
ADOLF GALLANDAccording to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
ADOLF GALLANDThis often results in improving one’s own position.
ADOLF GALLANDAs interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
ADOLF GALLANDNo engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller.
ADOLF GALLANDThe fighter in the opening of a dogfight must detect the opponent as early as possible in order to attain a superior position for the attack.
ADOLF GALLANDTo use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting the cart before the horse.
ADOLF GALLANDTheir element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy.
ADOLF GALLANDThe war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of ’42, in Russia.
ADOLF GALLANDNever abandon the possibility of attack.
ADOLF GALLANDOf course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed.
ADOLF GALLANDThis was my impression.
ADOLF GALLANDI made a written report which is still today in existence.
ADOLF GALLANDLater when asked what it felt like, I said, “It felt as though angels were pushing”.
ADOLF GALLANDAttack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy’s plans.
ADOLF GALLANDIf we could have had in ’44, ah, let’s say three hundred operational
ADOLF GALLAND