1 Adolf Galland as the archetypal fighter pilot
2 Galland as ‘Brylcreem basher’
3 A Galland who did not survive: Wilhelm-Ferdinand ‘Wutz’ Galland
4 Gordon Gollob after a mission
5 Werner Mölders meets Hitler, December 1940
6 Walter Oesau, a keen tactician and trainer as well as a combat leader
7 Heinz Bär, who succeeded Galland as commander of JV 44
8 Dietrich Peltz – one of Galland’s bêtes noires
9 Walter Nowotny, hand-picked by Galland to command the first jet fighter unit
10 Colonel Dr Thomas Kupfer, Hitschhold’s predecessor as General der Schlachtflieger
11 The ‘view from the cockpit’ of Johannes Trautloft
12 Edgar Petersen talks with night fighter aces Werner Streib and Hans Jabs
14 An He 51 biplane fighter of 1935
15 The Ar68, operational as a night fighter as late as December 1939
16 The start of the ground attack arm: Hs 123s
17 The Ju 87 Stuka became more relevant as a ground attack aircraft in 1942–45
18 A wartime propaganda photograph of an early Bf 110B
19 The Bf109E, the standard Luftwaffe single-engine fighter of 1939–41
20 A merchant ship sunk by Allied aircraft off Livorno, 1945
21 The business end of an FW 190
22 Ju 87Gs, converted from Ju 87Ds when dive-bombing became too dangerous
23 The FW 190A helped to hold numerically superior RAF fighters at bay in 1941–42
24 The Bf 109G-6 introduced ‘bumps’ to cover the breeches of its 13mm machine guns
25 A ‘long-nose’ FW 190D-9 runs up for a test flight
26 The Me 410 played an important role against USAAF bombers
29 The He 162 Volksjäger was considered by Galland to be a waste of resources
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Principal German Fighters and Armament