This was my impression.
ADOLF GALLANDOf course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed.
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Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems
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According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
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Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy’s plans.
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I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter.
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Or by bad luck can suffer from frustration or develop complexes they may never rid themselves of again.
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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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Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy.
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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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It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot.
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The battle is tough but if you reach where you want to go, then at least in some sense it is worth it.
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“He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing,” is one of the fundamental rules of defense.
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Flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime.
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Never abandon the possibility of attack.
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When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm
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I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.
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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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You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
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Nine g’s is good, if the pilot can stand it.
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Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed.
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If we could have had in ’44, ah, let’s say three hundred operational
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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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An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side.
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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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Which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.
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No engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller.
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That day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that’s for sure.
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