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  General Adolf Galland (deceased) Died : 1996 *Signature Value : £80 Editions signed : Signed limited edition of 1000 prints. | Galland, Adolf (General Adolf Galland (deceased)) Adolf Galland fought in the great Battles of Poland, France and Britain, leading the famous JG26 Abbeville Boys. He flew in combat against the RAFs best including Douglas Bader, Bob Stanford Tuck and Johnnie Johnson. In 1941, at the age of 29, he was promoted to Inspector of the Fighter Arm. In 1942 Hitler personally selected Galland to organise the fighter escort for the Channel Dash. He became the youngest General in the German High Command but open disagreements with Goering led to his dismissal at the end of 1944. He reverted to combat flying, forming the famous JV44 wing flying the Me262 jet fighter, and was the only General in history to lead a squadron into battle. With 104 victories, all in the West, Adolf Galland received the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds. Born 19th March 1912, died 9th February 1996. Born in 1911, Adolf Galland learned to fly at a state-sponsored flying club in the early 1930s. In 1933 he was selected to go to Italy for secret pilot training. Galland flew for a brief time as a commercial airline pilot prior to joining the clandestine Luftwaffe as a Second Lieutenant. In April of 1935 he was assigned to JG-2, the Richtofen Fighter Wing, and in 1937 he joined the ranks of the Condor Legion flying the He-51 biplane fighter in support of General Franco during the Spanish Civil War. Despite flying 280 missions, Galland attained no aerial victories, a rather inauspicious start for a pilot would go on to attain more than 100 aerial victories - the highest for any pilot who flew on the Western Front. During Germanys invasion of Poland, Galland was assigned to an attack squadron and he flew over fifty ground sorties. He was promoted to Captain for his efforts, but Galland was anxious to return to a fighter squadron, and he got his wish in October of 1939 when he was transferred to JG-27. It was with JG-27 that Galland first learned to fly the Bf-109. In May of 1940 JG-27 flew in support of the invasion of Belgium, and Galland achieved his first combat victory on May 12. Two months later his score had risen to more than a dozen, and at this time he was once again transferred to JG-26 situated on the Channel Coast. Engaging the RAF on a daily basis during the Battle of Britain, Gallands score rose steadily until it exceeded 40 victories by September. After a short leave Galland rejoined JG-26 in Brittany, where the squadron played a defensive role. Following Germanys invasion of Russia in June of 1941, JG-26 became one of only two German fighter squadrons left on the Channel Coast. This resulted in plenty of flying, and by late in 1941 Gallands victory totals had reached 70. Following a near brush with death when the fuel tank of his 109 exploded, Galland was grounded for a time, and sent to Berlin where he was made the General of the Fighter Arm, reporting directly to Goring and Hitler. Galland spent most of the next few years carrying out inspection tours, and was at odds with his superiors about the need for an adequate fighter defense to negate ever-increasing Allied bombing of Germanys cities. He continued to fly combat missions when the opportunity presented itself, despite Gorings orders to the contrary. In January of 1945 almost 300 fighters were lost in an all-out attack on Allied airfields in France, a mission Galland did not support. He was dismissed as General of the Fighter Arm for his insubordination, but reflecting his flying abilities Hitler ordered Galland to organize JV-44, Germanys first jet-equipped fighter squadron. By March of 1945 Galland had recruited 45 of Germanys best surviving fighter pilots, and this new squadron was given the difficult task of trying to counter the daily onslaught of 15th Air Force bombers coming at Germany from the South. Gallands final mission of the War occurred on April 26 when he attained his 102nd and 103rd confirmed aerial victories prior to crash landing his damaged Me262. Several days later the War was over for both Galland and Germany. General Galland died in 1996. |
  Major Gerhard Schopfel (deceased) Died : 2003 *Signature Value : £65 Editions signed : Signed limited edition of 1000 prints. | Schopfel, Gerhard (Major Gerhard Schopfel (deceased)) Gerhard Schopfel was Staffelkapitan of 9./JG26 at the outbreak of war, and became Kommandeur of III./JG26 in August 1940. In December 1941 he succeeded Adolf Galland as Kommodore of JG26 until Januray 1943. Later, Kommodore of JG4 and JG6. He flew over 700 combat missions, achieving 40 victories, all in the West. He was awarded the Knight's Cross in 1940. Died 17th May 2003. |
  Oberleutnant Adolf Glunz (deceased) Died : 2002 *Signature Value : £65 Editions signed : Signed limited edition of 1000 prints. | Glunz, Adolf (Oberleutnant Adolf Glunz (deceased)) Adolf Glunz served with 4/JG-52 on both the Channel Coast and then in Russia. Returning to the English Channel with II./JG-25 he became one of the most successful fighter pilots on the Western Front. Adolf Glunz saw combat continuously right up to the war end and, remarkably, was never shot down or wounded in over 574 missions, many whilst flying the Fw190. Awarded the Knight's Cross in 1943, he acheived a personal score of 71 victories. He died 1st August 2002. |
 Friedrich-Karl Paul (deceased) Died : 1998 *Signature Value : £45 Editions signed : Signed limited edition of 1000 prints. | Paul, Friedrich-Karl (Friedrich-Karl Paul (deceased)) As Captain of the Kriegsmarine torpedo-boat Jaguar, Paul took part as an escort in the Channel Dash breakthrough of February 1942 and shot down 3 aircraft on the mission. In March he successfully captured a Royal Navy launch and in October his torpedo-boat sank the British cruiser Charybdis in the English Channel. He later served in the Baltic, his ship shooting down 7 Russian planes and sinking 1 submarine. He was awarded the Knights Cross in 1945. He died 1st May 1998. |
  Gerd-Dietrich Schneider (deceased) Died : 2004 *Signature Value : £55 Editions signed : Signed limited edition of 1000 prints. | Schneider, Gerd-Dietrich (Gerd-Dietrich Schneider (deceased)) An experienced mine-sweeping officer, Gerd-Dietrich Schneider was Captain of the minehunter R25 in early 1942 operating in the English Channel, and was part of the Channel Dash Task Force. Later, in the Black Sea, he participated in the German invasion of the Crimea, sinking 2 Russian submarines. He transferred to an artillery bombardment flotilla for the German defence of the Allied invasion of France in 1944, and then covered the German retreat in the Baltic from the Russians. He was awarded the Knights Cross in 1944. He died on 15th July 2004. |
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