To use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to… — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
I will not wage war against women and children! I have instructed my air force to limit their attacks to military objectives.… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The country will some day pay for the stupidities of those who were in the majority on this commission. They know as… — Jimmy Doolittle Copy Share Image
In our victory over Japan, airpower was unquestionably decisive. That the planned invasion of the Japanese Home islands was unnecessary is clear… — Carl Andrew Spaatz Copy Share Image
Whatever the lengths to which others may go, His Majesty's Government will never resort to the deliberate attack on women and children… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Strategic air assault is wasted if it is dissipated piecemeal in sporadic attacks between which the enemy has an opportunity to readjust… — Henry H. Arnold Copy Share Image
Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters, that is,… — Jimmy Doolittle Copy Share Image
That idea is so damned nonsensical and impossible that I'm willing to stand on the bridge of a battleship while that nitwit… — Newton D. Baker Copy Share Image
Air control can be established by superiority in numbers, by better employment, by better equipment, or by a combination of these factors. — Carl Andrew Spaatz Copy Share Image
Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
They had bombed London, whether on purpose or not, and the British people and London especially should know that we could hit… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
The greatest contributor to the feeling of tension and fear of war arose from the power of the bombing aeroplane. If all… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence. — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
As a peace machine, it's value to the world will be beyond computation. Would a declaration of war between Russia and Japan… — John Brisben Walker Copy Share Image
Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time. . . . I once… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has… — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
