Adolf Galland Quotes
Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
"Top Gun and Beyond." NOVA, PBS, 14 Feb. 1989.
This was the week after he returned from his meeting with Hitler in Munich where he appeased the German Dictator. See {585941} for his famous naive statement.
In WWII as later, defense contractors and military weapons designers were always trying to improve the design and proto-models, thus stalling production and utilization. Arnold’s statement galvanized the program and B-29s reached the Pacific theater to help win the war.
He has exactly right, but at the time there was much isolationist sentiment arguing against getting involved in “foreign wars”. To obtain the full industrial power of the United States, most of the manufacturing capability and raw materials would have to be taken from the civilian sector and devoted to military production. That would take men like Nelson, but primarily President Franklin Delano Roosevelt who would persuade the American people to make the immediate sacrifice to insure the future. See {642356} as an example.
of the German tactics of Blitzkrieg Goering, Hitler and the other leading Nazis were quite open about their military aggression. Terrorism was admittedly used to persuade the next nation Germany would attack to capitulate rapidly.
Hopkins was a social worker with no military of political experience. But the President trusted him implicitly. Most American military officers and Ambassador to England Joseph P. Kennedy, a Nazi sympathizer & father of JFK, believed that England could not stand up to Hitler. Any military aid we gave England would fall into the hands of the Germans. Everyone was shocked when Roosevelt sent Hopkins to England to make a military recommendation. Hopkins, FDR’s closest advisor made this powerful and moving statement to Churchill and other British leaders. The combination of the first Biblical phrase with the second recognition of the possibility of failure, was inspirational for the British—just the effect Roosevelt sought.
England was the only power opposing Hitler led Nazi Germany, and they were being weakened daily by their unsupported military efforts.
The technology that came out of WWII was amazing: In addition to the Atomic Bomb, there was radar, computers, that would break code, antobiotiics, rockets, jet planes and coutless others. In reality, it was technology and the ability to produce it in large scale that determined the result of WWII. It was truly a war of the wizards.
He was a viscious anti-Semite who attracted to his party extreme right wingers, Nazi Sympathers and apologists for the Vichey Franch government. The party was rejected by the majority of French voters, but when his daughter took over the party, she was not an anti Semite but foudn it hard to shake the party's image which was alaysa associated with her name even when she actually kicked her father out of the party.
Adolf Josef Ferdinand Galland was a German Luftwaffe general and flying ace who served throughout the Second World War in Europe. He flew 705 combat missions, and fought on the Western Front and in the Defence of the Reich. On four occasions, he survived being shot down, and he was credited with 104 aerial victories, all of them against the Western Allies.
