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.
ADOLF GALLANDYou could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
More Adolf Galland Quotes
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When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm
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Never abandon the possibility of attack.
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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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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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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’s unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.
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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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The fighter in the opening of a dogfight must detect the opponent as early as possible in order to attain a superior position for the attack.
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This was my impression.
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“He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing,” is one of the fundamental rules of defense.
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This often results in improving one’s own position.
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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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Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy’s plans.
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