The First and the Last - The Rise and Fall of theGerman Fighter Forces, 1938-1945

Adolf Galland

Buccaneer

1954

279 páginas

9h 18m

ISBN-10: 0899667287

Adolf Gallan was born in Westerholt, Westphalia, His father was bailiff to the Graf von Westerholt, a post that successive heads of his family had held since 1742, when the first Galland, a Huguenot, emigrated do Westphalia from France.Joining the tenunofficial Luftwaffe, he was secretely trained in Italy in 1933. In 1937 Galland volunteered for service in the Condor Legion in the Spanish cicil war. In Germany Galland was assigned to a desk job in the Air Ministry. The invasion of Poland became only a matter of time. On September 1, 1939, Galland, was at an airfield at Reichenau in Silesia. In the darkness preceding dawn he took off with his squadron. World War II had begun.