www.battleofbritainexperience.co.uk Remagen-Oberwinter. 1996andwasburied atStLaurentiusAdolf Gallanddiedon9 February Church, adventures. Tuck wasgodfather toGalland’s son Andreas. tocollectGalland oftenflyingintoManstonairport Tuck for ashootingtripor for other consultants totheBattleofBritainfilmin1969. Thetwo becamefirmfriends, with After thewarGallandmetRAF StanfordAce Robert Tuck whenthey actedas that point-beatinghiscolleague, friendandrival Werner Mölders. 1940 Gallandrecorded makinghimthemost successfulfighterpilotat his57thvictory on 31October1940large-scaledogfightscontinued for sometime. On5December third member of the Wehrmacht to receive it. While The Battle of Britain officially ended received theOak Leaves totheKnight’s Cross from HitlerinBerlin, becoming only the Galland’s successduring The Battle ofBritaincontinued andon25Septemberhe speechless withrage. Galland replied: “I shouldlike anoutfitofSpitfires for mysquadron”, whichleftGöring lack ofprogress in The BattleofBritain, asked whathispilotsneededtowinthebattle, Göring abouttacticsandstrategies. Another timewhenGöring, frustratedwiththe other Ace withagreater number ofvictoriesandequally experienced, they arguedwith amount ofdisagreements withhissuperior. Together with Werner Mölders, theonly Despite hisoriginalrespect for ReichsmarschallGöring, Gallandhadanincreasing He wasawarded theKnight’s Cross on1 August 1940for 17victories. shocked by theaggression shown by therelatively inexperiencedandoutnumbered RAF. the firsttimehe realised thatthere would benoquickandeasyvictory, having been JG26 moved tothePasdeCalais, beinginvolved inmany battleswithSpitfires. For On 19July 1940duringtheBattleofBritain, Gallandwaspromoted toMajorandwith command ofJagdgeschwader26(JG26)asGruppenkommandeur. 1940asadjutant.to Jagdgeschwader27inFebruary On6June 1940Galland tookover Cross SecondClassinrecognition ofhis360missionsintwo warsandwastransferred 1938. Following successinthePoland campaign(1939-41)hewasawarded theIron which encouragedhimtotransfer from strike pilottofighterwhenheleftinMay inSpainhedevelopedWhile serving early petrol andoilbombs andflew trialsinBf109s, Mickey Mousefigure! flying in swimming trunkswithacigarbetween histeethinanaircraft decoratedwitha and went ontoflyduringtheSpanishCivilwarwhere hefirstdisplayed hisuniquestyle; a few trainingGallandwasinvited tojointhenewly monthsoffurther formed Luftwaffe from clandestineprogrammes where hemetHermannGöringfor thefirsttime. After performance aircraft. A few monthslaterhewasthenordered toameetingwithothers (ZVS) where hewasinvited trainingprogram tojoinasecret pilotinghigh military other pilotswere ordered attheCentral toattendaninterview Airline PilotSchool only 18outof4,000tobeaccepted. Then in1933heandseveral to theGermanCommercial Flying School(DVS) andwasoneof Following graduationfrom highschoolinBuer, Gallandapplied under the1919 Treaty of Versailles, anairforce was notallowed. of 15ingliders–theonly way young Germanscouldlearntoflyas, was agiftedanddaringpilot. hisflyingcareer Hestarted attheage One oftheleadingflying AcesoftheGermanLuftwaffe, Galland 19 March 1912–9February 1996 Galland Adolf “Dolfo”