The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.
ADOLF GALLANDThis is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.
More Adolf Galland Quotes
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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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During the Battle of Britain the question “fighter or fighter-bomber?” had been decided once and for all
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This aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.
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Accompanied by a whistling sound, my jet shot through the air.
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When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm
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Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems
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We couldn’t stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
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Will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.
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That day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that’s for sure.
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To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.
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“He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing,” is one of the fundamental rules of defense.
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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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I made a written report which is still today in existence.
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And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.
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You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
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