Adolf Galland, was a famous and influential German Luftwaffe general and flying ace who served throughout the Second World War in Europe. He flew 705 combat missions in the Defence of the Reich.

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 ...

THE FIRST AND THE LAST: THE RISE & FALL OF THE GERMAN FIGHTER FORCES, 1938-1945 (368 pp.]—Adolf Galland—Holf ($4.95). War memoirs fall generally into two classes—front-line ...

Finally, in 1979, they met, when Galland came to the Bay Area. "I was kind of in awe," Mr. Finnegan's son Dennis, the retired undersheriff of Marin County, said Friday.

Adolf Galland, 83, one of Germany’s most famous fighter pilots during World War II, died Friday at home in Germany after heart surgery. He is credited with shooting down 104 Allied planes during ...

Raked by the guns of Galland's Me 109, Bird-Wilson's Hurricane fell blazing into the Thames. "I knew I'd been hit," he recalled. "Flames came into the cockpit, the hood perspex was all gone.