I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.
ADOLF GALLANDThat day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that’s for sure.
More Adolf Galland Quotes
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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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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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“He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing,” is one of the fundamental rules of defense.
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Flying is more than a sport and more than a job
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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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I made a written report which is still today in existence.
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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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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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We couldn’t stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
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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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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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This often results in improving one’s own position.
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Accompanied by a whistling sound, my jet shot through the air.
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