Word: galland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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. He learned to fight as a member of the German "volunteer" Condor Legion in Spain, came home a squadron leader. In 1942, after three years of World War II, Fighter Pilot Galland was 30, a major general, a top-ranking ace, and inspector general of the Luftwaffe fighter command. After his 94th kill, Hitler personally hung the diamond-studded Knight's Cross around Galland...
Young General Galland probably saw little of Hitler, except on such ceremonial occasions, but as inspector general he fought mightily for development of the jet-powered Messerschmitt 262 as the only possible defense against the Allies' vast fleets of bombers. Hitler, against the advice of his best airmen, ordered the jets used as bombers, not fighters, and also opted to throw Germany's resources into making guided missiles-the put-putting V-1 and the rocket-powered V2. By late 1944 Galland, like his fellow airmen, was perfectly able to see that Germany, without enough defense against...
...Airman Galland blamed Germany's "indescribable misery" on the Allied bombing, and after a few years went off to authoritarian Argentina to ply his trade as adviser to Perón's Aeronautics Ministry. Galland stayed carefully out of politicking in Argentina's tight little ex-Nazi community...
Last week, black Havana jutting from scarred cheek, Adolf Galland was home, the No. 1 candidate for commander of the soon-to-be 80,000-man West German air force. He landed in Frankfurt after six years' absence, cried: "I am happy to be back," and promptly denied the headlines about his new post. But the tall, slim airman, now 43, talked suspiciously like a commanding officer: "The new German air force will not be built around World War II flyers, who are now too old. It will be built around youth. It's now become a necessary...
...Ministry in Buenos Aires, General Galland, at 42, has been suggested by friends as being just the man to help put the new West German air force into service. But Bonn says it has no use for Galland, an enthusiastic Nazi...