Word: galland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dismissal, said the immediate reason was that last autumn he opposed a proposal to withdraw from Russia and concentrate on an all-out Mediterranean offensive. One change in Nazi command was apparently for merit alone: the Luftwaffe's new fighter chief, 30-year-old Gen eral Adolf Galland, was credited with upward of 100 enemy planes, had won the cherished Knight's Cross, and was now Germany's youngest general...