Name: Adolf

Surname: Galland



Adolf Joseph Ferdinand Galland (Westerholt, 19 March 1912 – Remagen, 9 February 1996) was a German general and aviator. He was credited with 104 aerial victories achieved against the Western Allies, with the JG 27 and JG 26 units. He was appointed general of the Luftwaffe, a rank he held from December 1941 to December 1944. Galland became famous during the Second World War, which consecrated as one of the greatest "aces" of aviation. Following some conflicts with Hermann Göring, he was removed from operational duties and was ostracized by the main Nazi leaders. The situation changed on 10 January 1945, when Galland became commander of Jagdverband 44 with jet aircraft (Messerschmitt Me 262). Captured by the US armed forces on 14 May 1945, he was imprisoned and remained in prison until 1947. Subsequently he worked in the tactical sector of the Royal Air Force and from 1948 to 1955, like many other German hierarchs, he moved to Argentina where he became assistant of that nation's growing war industry. Despite his past, Galland received numerous certificates of esteem and friendship from his former adversaries such as Robert Stanford Tuck, Johnnie Johnson and Douglas Bader, the R.A.F. pilot. without legs, for whom, as a prisoner in Germany during the war, he had organized a truce to have the prosthetics he had lost parachuted from an English bomber

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