An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side.
ADOLF GALLANDLater when asked what it felt like, I said, “It felt as though angels were pushing”.
More Adolf Galland Quotes
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You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
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According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
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Accompanied by a whistling sound, my jet shot through the air.
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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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Later when asked what it felt like, I said, “It felt as though angels were pushing”.
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I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May ‘43.
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Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy’s plans.
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And that’s when we did it. I think we did it.
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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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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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This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.
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We couldn’t stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
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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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“He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing,” is one of the fundamental rules of defense.
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To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.
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