The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.
ADOLF GALLANDI made a written report which is still today in existence.
More Adolf Galland Quotes
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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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To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.
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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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We couldn’t stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
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Nine g’s is good, if the pilot can stand it.
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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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And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.
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For the first time I was flying by jet propulsion.
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If we could have had in ’44, ah, let’s say three hundred operational
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Will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.
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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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Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart,
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Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy.
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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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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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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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Like the hunter who stalks his prey and maneuvers himself unnoticed into the most favourable position for the kill
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Accompanied by a whistling sound, my jet shot through the air.
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According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
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And that’s when we did it. I think we did it.
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Never abandon the possibility of attack.
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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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As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success
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Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed.
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Which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.
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This was my impression.
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