This section contains a number of brief (and unsurprising) summaries of different Allied aircraft and their tactics. Galland’s views of the end-of-war programs, including the obstacles placed in the way of his desire to deploy numbers of the Me 262 despite its technical immaturity, show his understanding of technology and operations. As Johannes Steinhoff, Galland’s comrade in the Me 262-equipped JV 44 (and who was unable to contribute to this volume because he was recuperating from severe burns at the time the interrogations were undertaken) put it, ‘The war in the air is a technological war which cannot be won by a technologically inferior fighting force, however high its morale or dauntless it resolution.’
The last chapter shows Galland’s awareness that it was more than the failures in technology and operations he identifies which defeated the Jagdwaffe.