Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Galland (third from left, with a cigar) and Lieutenant Colonel Werner Mölders (fourth from left) and other Luftwaffe officers stand on the porch of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin city, Third Reich. World War II in Europe.
On the Adolf Galland photographs there are also Lieutenant Herbert Wehnelt (far left) and to the right with a cigar in his hand Major Hannes Trautloft.
Location: Berlin, Germany
Shooting time: 1941
Adolf Josef Ferdinand Galland (March 19, 1912, Westerholt, Westphalia – February 9, 1996, Remagen, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a German pilot of the Luftwaffe fighter units of World War II, ace pilot, one of the organizers and leaders of the Luftwaffe, lieutenant general aviation. During his service, he made 705 sorties, took part in air battles on the Western Front of World War II and operations to defend the Reich. Shot down four times. Shot down 104 enemy aircraft, including four 4-engine bombers, Adolf Galland won seven air victories on the Messerschmitt Me.262 jet fighter.
Adolf Galland was born in Westerholt (now called Herten) in Westphalia, Germany. Since childhood, he dreamed of aviation, was fond of glider flights. At the end of 1932, Adolf entered military service in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic. In 1937, Adolf Galland volunteered for the Condor Legion, which took part in the Spanish Civil War on the side of Francisco Franco’s nationalists. The main actions of Adolf during the campaign was the assault on enemy troops. After the end of the war in Spain, Galland, based on combat experience, developed several doctrines and technical recommendations for attacking enemy troops from the air, and also served as an instructor in attack aviation. With the outbreak of World War II, A. Galland made several sorties to destroy enemy ground forces, after which he convinced the command to transfer him to the Luftwaffe fighter units.