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Colonel Adolf Galland, commander of the famed (and feared) Luftwaffe JG-26 fighter squadron, emerges from the cockpit of his Messerschmitt Me-109 fighter. He flew 705 combat missions and was shot down four times. That was when the worst happened.
Sep 21, 2018 · With his slicked-back black hair and matching mustache, broken nose and perennial cigar, Lieutenant General Adolf Galland was the personification of the Luftwaffe fighter arm during World War II. His Messerschmitt 109s bearing the incongruous Mickey Mouse emblem became iconic images for generations of historians, artists and modelers.
Luftwaffe, Adolf Galland emerges from the cockpit of his Messerschmitt Me-109 fighter after landing at a forward airfield in France near the coast of the English Channel in 1940. Because of his success as a group leader in the Battle of Britain, Galland was promoted to lieutenant colonel.
Feb 14, 1996 · General Galland died after a long illness on Friday at his home in the Rhineland town of Oberwinter. He was 83. As a schoolboy in Westphalia, Adolf Galland developed a passion for aviation.
Jul 20, 2017 · German Luftwaffe 26th Fighter Wing commander Adolf Galland, in aerial combat with a large British fighter formation over the English Channel, watched as his 70th “kill” of World War II spiraled to a flaming crash. Suddenly, Royal Air Force (RAF) Spitfires rolled in on the tail of Galland’s Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter and began blazing away.
He built the most effective fighter force known, and he did it not because of men like Hitler and Goering, but in spite of them. In a meteoric career, he became the youngest general officer in the war, a highly decorated ace, and commander of the world’s first operational jet fighter squadron.
Adolf Galland. Contributor: C. Peter Chen. Adolf Joseph Ferdinand Galland was born in Westerholt, Westphalia, Prussia in Germany as the second of four sons of a land manager. He developed an interest in aviation as a teenager, flying in home-built gliders from a field near his home.
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