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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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I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in ‘42 – even in my position.
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Nine g’s is good, if the pilot can stand it.
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Can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.
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Which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.
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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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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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The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first.
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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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This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.
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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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Or by bad luck can suffer from frustration or develop complexes they may never rid themselves of again.
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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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Like the hunter who stalks his prey and maneuvers himself unnoticed into the most favourable position for the kill
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Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy’s plans.
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Later when asked what it felt like, I said, “It felt as though angels were pushing”.
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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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