Numbers Quote by Adolf Galland

“In equipment, Allied superiority was stifling. In guns it was 2½ to 1, in tanks 20 to 1. The Allies had some 14,000 planes,…

— Ladislas Farago

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming…

— Winston Churchill

During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.

— Simon Sinek

All battles have some use, including those in which we were defeated.

— Paulo Coelho

“In the first half of 1944, battle casualty rates for every 1,000 bomber crewmen serving six months in combat included 712 killed or missing…

— Rick Atkinson

“It was perhaps, then, not surprising that it was Colonel Beppo Schmid, not General Martini, who on 16 July submitted to Göring the principal…

— James Holland

Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat.

— Albert Kesselring

Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared?

— Niall Ferguson

We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors.…

— Adolf Galland

Sure, you would lose more bombers without fighters, but, flying in formation, you could get the job done.

— Stuart Symington

The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.

— Franz Halder

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive…

— Prince Charles