Luftwaffe general Adolf Galland claimed that 300 operational Me 262s could have stopped the Allied bombing campaign. But the ...

Adolf Galland, a fearless, cigar-chomping flyer, was the youngest major general in German history. He learned to fly a glider in the post-Versailles days when the Germans were forbidden an air force.

Sixty-three years ago today, James Finnegan, a young Army fighter pilot flying his P-47 over Nazi-occupied Europe, found himself in one of the most storied dogfights of World War II, and at the end of ...

THE FIRST AND THE LAST: THE RISE & FALL OF THE GERMAN FIGHTER FORCES, 1938-1945 (368 pp.]—Adolf Galland—Holf ($4.95). War memoirs fall generally into two classes—front-line yarns and headquarters ...

Adolf Galland, 83, one of Germany’s most famous fighter pilots during World War II, died Friday at home in Germany after heart surgery. He is credited with shooting down 104 Allied planes during World ...

Adolf Galland, was a famous and influential German Luftwaffe general and flying ace who served throughout the Second World War in Europe. He flew 705 combat missions in the Defence of the Reich. Known ...

Just before sunrise on Sept. 1, 1939, minutes after the first shots of World War II were fired by invading German troops, a 27-year-old Luftwaffe pilot began dropping bombs from his Henschel 123 ...

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Translation of Die Ersten und die Letzten.

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