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 ...

Galland, Adolf 1912-Germany Luftwaffe Date 2013 Call number UG626.2.G35 B46 2013 Type Biography Physical description 239 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm Place Germany Data Source Smithsonian ...