To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.
ADOLF GALLANDOf course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed.
More Adolf Galland Quotes
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According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
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Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems
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If we would have had the 262 at our disposal – even with all the delays
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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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Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy.
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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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I made a written report which is still today in existence.
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It’s unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.
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“He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing,” is one of the fundamental rules of defense.
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When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm
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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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Tie 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
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If we could have had in ’44, ah, let’s say three hundred operational
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As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success
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