"I envy you Galland, for going into action. I wish I were a few years younger and less bulky. If I were, I would gladly put myself under your command. It would be marvelous to have nothing to worry about but a good fight, like it was in the old days."
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Hermann Göring, on 21 April 1945. His visit to Galland on that day was the last time the two men ever saw each other. As quoted in Battle over Bavaria: the B-26 Marauder versus the German jets, April 1945 (1999) by Forsyth, Robert; Scutts, Jerry; Creek, Eddie J, p. 143
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Adolf Galland
1912 – 1996
deutscher Pilot
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