Adolf Galland: Ace of the Luftwaffe

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Of all Germany's aces, few can boast of belonging in the same class as the legendary Adolf Galland. His more than 100 victories against Western opponents are a testament to his bravery and skill as a pilot.

In the early 1990's, Galland invited a camera crew into his home to discuss his personal recollections of the war. In part I of this never before seen interview, Galland gives us an expert analysis of the Battle of Britain from inside his Me 109 cockpit. A General by the age of 29, Galland also describes his meteoric rise to the top of the Luftwaffe and his sometimes hostile relationship with Herman Goring.

Join us as we learn about the man behind the Legend:

Adolf Galland: Ace of the Luftwaffe

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• adolf galland
• luftwaffe
• battle of britain
• hermann goring
• me 109
• world war

[knut761]

It should be noted that Adolf Galland scored against English pilots who were better trained than their russian counterparts.

[SrDonCosmo]

"IS A FAT MAN IN FRONT OF ME"

JA JA JA JA JA JA JA YEAH... THIS PILOT ACE AND HERO, HAD BOTH STYLE AND ATTITUDE... NOT TO MENTION... BALLS!!!

[fluffy1931]

@seemstwice lol,..Germany did sign onto the Geneva Conventions, dude.

The Geneva Conventions consists of 4 different updates first three treaties (1864, 1906, 1929), the last known as Geneva Convention was after ww2-1949'.

Same for the Hague Conventions 1899, 1907' & 1929'

No agreements ever forbid one country from attacking another.

The Hague Conventions defined those conditions.

Also note the Geneva Protocol banning bio–chemical warfare and Poisonous or other Gases.

pls gtfoh

[seemstwice]

@fluffy1931 You might well have added that their were no international laws in those times which forbade onne country from attacking another, or even from exterminating a section of its population for that matter. Nevertheless Germans were charged at the Nuremberg Trials of violating laws which did not exist, and which other nations had also violated, even if not as methodically as the Germans.

[esplorantes]

@TommiN1974 Great!

[elasolezito]

his young picture reminds me of joe from angryjoeshow here in youtube ROFL !

[fluffy1931]

@devildoc225 lol,..Germany before ww2 was already well on it's way of violating conventions & treatys regarding pre-emptive war on it's neighbors and it's own citizens with passage of 1935 Nuremburg Laws.

Nobody in Germany including Galland would have failed to have missed this. The wehrmacht was a willing instrument of the state to enforce & carry out a war of racial hygiene & genocide let alone war crimes.

[TommiN1974]

@Weibkoln ..hey dude, this is one of the former bf 109. called emil (109 E). later, i think around 1939 the wings were changed. greetings from germany

[devildoc225]

@gnossticc Immediately after the war, he was returning to good health, and during this period he was told the full extent of what happened in terms of war crimes. He tried to make sense of all of it. This man was a true honorable warrior. He ordered his men to treat allied POW's with dignity. There were alot of war criminals on all sides during WW2, but this German Pilot was not one of them. He conducted himself according to the rules of war, and the Geneva Conventions. A class act.

[simageorge63]

at age  29 he is GENERAL in lufftwafe!!!!

[pramboy09]

@Weibkoln the model is a hispano buchon they were built after the war in spain, the aircraft had a merlin engine to replace the DB engine which was becoming harder to source, the wing and canopy is the standard me-109

[DenverYellowStone]

@Weibkoln He wanted the british fighter "Spitfire" for his squadron. Not the german "spitfire" whatever that is...?! Its certainly not the Bf 109. They should have gotten more Fw 190 Butcherbirds.