The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.
ADOLF GALLANDAnd most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.
More Adolf Galland Quotes
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This often results in improving one’s own position.
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As interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
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Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems
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I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter.
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Later when asked what it felt like, I said, “It felt as though angels were pushing”.
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Many to whom the first victory over the opponent has been long denied either by unfortunate circumstances
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Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy.
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Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed.
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Can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.
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Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy’s plans.
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I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in ‘42 – even in my position.
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To 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.
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Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability.
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If we could have had in ’44, ah, let’s say three hundred operational
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The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down
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I made a written report which is still today in existence.
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This aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.
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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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For the first time I was flying by jet propulsion.
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When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm
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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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During the Battle of Britain the question “fighter or fighter-bomber?” had been decided once and for all
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The 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.
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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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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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