Adolf Galland Quotes

I've always been intrigued by fighter pilots and strategy because it occurs in like, milliseconds, you know.

Fighter pilots rove in the area allotted to them in any way they like, and when they spot an enemy they attack and shoot them down.... Everything else is rubbish.

The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.

In the long run sea power will be no match for air power.

Тhe battlefield in the air will be the decisive one

To conquer the command in the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat.

Fighting in the air is not a sport. It is scientific murder.

Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft.

The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.

Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.

To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose.

I met lot of fighter pilots and heard their breathtaking experiences. They risk their lives for our well being. Not many understand the risks involved.

Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's potential and fatally undermine his will to wage war.

The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden of the war rested on the few hundred German fighter pilots on the Channel coast.

I'm sure the most favorite airplane in my career would still be the Sabre F86 cleft wing , which allowed me to be credited with 2 Russian-built Mig-15 destroyed during the Korean War. Where I was in 1953.

Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side that employs air power as it should be employed.

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.

I have a mathematical certainty that the future will confirm my assertion that aerial warfare will be the most important element in future wars, and that in consequence not only will the importance of the Independent Air Force rapidly increase, but the importance of the army and navy will decrease in proportion.

Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side which first employs air power as it should be employed. Germany, entangled in the meshes of vast land campaigns, cannot now disengage her air power for a strategically proper application. She missed victory through air power by a hair's breadth in 1940. . . . We ourselves are now at the crossroads.

I can see that aerial warfare is actually scientific murder.

The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.

You have to punch hard for knockouts, and to beat me, you have to knock me out.

I never dreamed to be a fighter pilot, because those guys are jerks.

When I look round to see how we can win the war, I see that there is only one sure path . . . and that is absolutely devastating, exterminating attack by very heavy bombers from this country upon the Nazi homeland.