The German Luftwaffe always fought without any reserves.
ADOLF GALLANDAs a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success
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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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“He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing,” is one of the fundamental rules of defense.
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You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
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Which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.
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Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy’s plans.
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We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters
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Can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.
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I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter.
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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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It’s unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.
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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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And that’s when we did it. I think we did it.
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The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.
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Accompanied by a whistling sound, my jet shot through the air.
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If we could have had in ’44, ah, let’s say three hundred operational
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