משתמש:Lirdon/מטלות לפורטל/ציטוטים
דף ציטוטים נבחרים
1 עריכה
- "כוח אווירי הוא בלתי ניתן לחילוק, אם אתה מחלק אותו למדורים, אתה קורע אותו לחתיכות והורס את היתרון הגדול שלו, גמישותו" - ברנרד מונטגומרי. -
בוצע - "כוח אווירי יכול לשתק את צבא האוייב או להכריח אותו להקצות מתוך משאביו המוגבלים להגנת בסיסיו ואמצעי התקשורת הרבה יותר [משאבים] ממה שאנו צריכים [להשקיע] במתקפה." - וינסטון צ'רצ'יל.
- "להיות חסרי כוח אווירי הולם במצב הנוכחי של העולם משמעו להתפשר על יסודות החירות והעצמאות הלאומית." - ונסטון צ'רצ'יל, בית הנבחרים הבריטי, 14 למרץ 1933.
- "אם נפסיד במלחמה באוויר, נפסיד במלחמה [הכוללת] ונפסיד בה מהר." - ברנרד מונטגומרי.
- "מטרת האמנעה [האוירית] היא לבודד את שדה הקרב, אם ישנו שדה כזה. האמצעים במימוש [מטרה זאת] הם בעיקר תקיפת משאביו: האנשים, הציוד והחומרים." גנרל ג'ייקוב סמרט.
- "אני אשים את קלפיי על השולחן ואצהיר כי ללא העזרה שקיבלנו מחיל האוויר החמישי, לא היינו יכולים להישאר בקוריאה.". גנרל ולטון ווקר, צבא ארצות הברית, על תרומתו של חיל האוויר החמישי במלחמת קוריאה.
- "זה לוקח שיתוף פעולה צמוד עם הצבא כדי להשיג שימוש מקסימלי לרעה בכוח אווירי." גנרל קארל ספאז.
- "אם נשמור על אמונתינו באלוקים, אהבתנו לחופש, וכוח אווירי גלובלי עדיף העתיד [של ארצות הברית] נראה טוב." גנרל קרטיס להמיי.
- "השיטה היעילה היחידה הגנת טרטוריה [של מדינה] היא תקיפה אווירית בשביל להרוס כוחו האווירי של האוייב במהירות המירבית." גוליו דוהט.
- [אנשי] חיל האוויר באים כל בוקר ואומרים: "להפציץ, להפציץ, להפציץ." ו[אנשי] מחלקת המדינה באים ואומרים: "לא עכשיו או לא שם או לא יותר מדי או בכלל לא." נשיא ארצות הברית לינדון ג'ונסון שכיהן בין 1693-1969 מתייחס בציטוט לדילמות בהן הוא נתקל כנשיא כאשר היה צריך לנווט בין הדרישות הצבאיות במלחמת וייטנאם לבין דרישות מחלקת המדינה.
- "פרשינג ניצח [במלחמת העולם הראשונה] מבלי אפילו להסתכל לתוך מטוס, קל וחומר לטוס על אחד. אם הם [המטוסים] היו כה חשובים הוא היה לפחות מתנסה בטיסה... אנו נשאר עם הצבא על הקרקע וספינות הקרב בים." ג'ון וינגייט ויקס, שר המלחמה האמריקאי, 1921.
- "מרבית הזמן תעופת נושאות מטוסים היא מאתגרת יותר מאשר הטסת רכב חלל." אסטרונאוט ג'יימס לובל.
לתרגום עריכה
“In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary — and sufficient — to be in a position in case of war to conquer the command of the air.” — General Giulio Douhet
So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead. -- Cyril Falls (The Nature of Modern War, 28)
Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible. -- Alexander de Seversky (Victory Through Air Power, 5)
There is no “battle line” in modern war. There are battle areas and volumes, which must nowadays be regarded as being as mobile as the forces within them. -- Air Marshal E. Ludlow-Hewitt, 1937
Owing to the development of aviation war has altered in character. Hitherto primarily an affair of “fronts,” it will henceforth be primarily an affair of “areas.” -- Brig Gen P.R.C. Groves, RAF, 1922
The bomber was not a direct product of circumstances; it was the result of a gradual realization of the cardinal value of aircraft. -- Air Marshal E.J. Kingston-McCloughry
To commit troops to a campaign in which they cannot be provided with adequate air support is to court disaster. -- Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck, 1940
They knew not the day or hour nor the manner of their passing when far from home they were called to join that great band of heroic Airman that went before. -- Inscription from the American Cemetery and Memorial Cambridge England
The wider role of mobility and offensive power lies in the air. And the air force appears to be cast for the decisive role, as the heirs of Alexander’s “Companion” cavalry. Thus, as of old the forces of a nation for war on land were thought of in terms of infantry and cavalry, though each had its several sub-divisions, so in the future we need to think of the army and the air force as the two main components of military power. -- B.H. Liddell Hart (Thoughts on War, 29) The potentialities of aircraft attacks on a large scale are almost incalculable, but it is clear that such attack, owing to its crushing moral effect on a Nation, may impress the public opinion to a point of disarming the Government and thus becoming decisive. -- Marshal Ferdinand Foch, 1922
A soldier can walk the battlefields he once fought; a Marine can walk the beaches he once stormed; but an Airman can never visit the patch of sky he raced across on a mission to defend freedom. And so it’s fitting that the men and women of the Air Force will have this memorial, a place here on the ground that recognizes their achievements and sacrifices in the skies above. -- President George W. Bush Delivered at the Dedication of the United States Air Force Memorial on October 14, 2006
am convinced that a bombing attack launched from such carriers [the Lexington and Saratoga] from an unknown point, at an unknown instant, with an unknown objective, cannot be warded off. -- Adm William A. Moffett, at the christening of the Lexington, 3 Oct 1925
As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future. -- J.F.C. Fuller (The Army in My Time, 209)
Air forces can be switched from one objective to another. They are not committed to any one course of action as an army is, by its bulk, complexity, and relatively low mobility. While their action should be concentrated, it can be quickly concentrated afresh against other objectives, not only in a different place, but of a different kind. -- B.H. Liddell Hart (Thoughts on War, 157)
The most potent action of mechanized forces will be to supplement their own air force in interrupting the enemy’s “circulation.” -- B.H. Liddell Hart (Thoughts on War, 31)
While a stroke close to the rear of the opposing army is apt to have more effect on the minds of the enemy’s troops, a stroke farther back tends to have more effect on the mind 17 of the enemy commander--and it is in the minds of commanders that the issue of battles is really decided. -- B.H. Liddell Hart (Thoughts on War, 55)
It is a disgrace that modern air forces are still shackled to a planning and execution cycle that lasts three days. We have out jets to a hot air balloon. -- Gen Merrill McPeak, USAF
Air power is, above all, a psychological weapon--and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the predominance of psychological factors in war. -- B.H. Liddell Hart (Thoughts on War, 173)
We better be prepared to dominate the skies above the surface of the earth or be prepared to be buried beneath it. -- General Carl A. "Tooey" Spaatz
Saving the lives of your fellow airmen is the most extraordinary kind of heroism that I know. -- General Curtis E. LeMay
Strategic air attack is wasted if it is dissipated piecemeal in sporadic attacks between which enemy has an opportunity to readjust defenses or recuperate. -- General H. H. “Hap” Arnold
A country which cannot defend itself from aerial attack will find its air bases, its munitions centres, its military depots, its shipyards, and its great cities subjected to a devastating rain of bombs within a few hours of the declaration of hostilities.
-- Brig Gen P.R.C. Groves, RAF, 1922
"Because (Sherman) was an aviator, he understood the importance of air power, and this was a fairly new idea. Aircraft carriers became the real weapon that won the war."
~ Tom Cuttler
In the development of air power one has to look ahead and not backwards and figure out what is going to happen, not too much what has happened. -- Billy Mitchell (Winged Defense, 20)
With no war, we forgot about building airplanes we could see out of. Colonel Erich "Bubi" Hartmann, GAF
Success flourishes only in perserverance—ceaseless, restless perserverance. Baron Manfred von Richthofen
Superior technical achievements—used correctly both strategically and tactically—
can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically
inferior.
Lt. General Adolph Galland, Luftwaffe
Tell the Vietnamese they've got to draw in their horns or we're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age. --Gen. Curtis LeMay, May 1964
Of all my accomplishments I may have achieved during the war, I am proudest of the fact that I never lost a wingman.
— Colonel Erich 'Bubi' Hartmann, GAF.
Air power may either end war or end civilization.
— Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 14 March 1933.
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contended armies, the war must become a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
— H. G. Wells, Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life, 1902.
Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.
— General Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superiure de Guere, 1911.
Another popular fallacy is to suppose that flying machines could be used to drop dynamite on an enemy in time of war.
— William H. Pickering, Aeronautics, 1908.
To affirm that the aeroplane is going to 'revolutionize' navel warfare of the future is to be guilty of the wildest exaggeration.
— Scientific American, 16 July 1910.
It is not possible . . . to concentrate enough military planes with military loads over a modern city to destroy that city.
— US Colonel John W. Thomason Jr., November 1937.
Bombardment from the air is legitimate only when directed at a military objective, the destruction or injury of which would constitute a distinct military disadvantage to the belligerent.
— The Hague Convention of Jurists, 1923.
Would not the sight of a single enemy airplane be enough to induce a formidable panic? Normal life would be unable to continue under the constant threat of death and imminent destruction.
— General Giulio Douhet, 'The Command of the Air,' 1921.
Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer.
— Hermann Goering, German Air Force Minister, addressing the German Air force, September 1939.
My Luftwaffe is invincible. . . . And so now we turn to England. How long will this one last — two, three weeks?
— Hermann Goering, German Air Force Minister, June 1940.
Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force.
— Major Alexander P. de Seversky, USAAF.
For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
— Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
— Prime Minster Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 20 August 1940. The Royal Air Force has been known as 'the few' ever since. M. Hastings (2009) Winston's War states that Churchill came up with the phrase a few days earlier on 16 August, after visiting Fighter Command's 11 Group operation room. His chief of staff 'Pug' Ismay made some remark in the car riding back to Chequers, and Churchill said, "Don't speak to me. I have never been so moved." After a few minutes he spoke the classic line.
This quote is often changed by writers and speakers, giving us material such as 'Never . . . was so much owed by so few to so many,' seen after the Falklands War. Other folks have wondered if Churchill was referring to the RAF's bar tab.
Aerial gunnery is 90 percent instinct and 10 percent aim.
— Captain Frederick C. Libby, RFC.
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying.
— Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an interview after he was returned to the US.
Know and use all the capabilities in your airplane. If you don't, sooner or later, some guy who does use them all will kick your ass.
— Dave 'Preacher' Pace, USN.
The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first. Like the hunter who stalks his prey and maneuvers himself unnoticed into the most favourable position for the kill, the fighter in the opening of a dogfight must detect the opponent as early as possible in order to attain a superior position for the attack.
— General Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe.
Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur.
— Giulio Douhet, 'The Command of the Air.'
We were stripped down, even the turrets were removed. You were light and real fast, though. Our 12th squadron motto was 'Alone Unarmed Unafraid.' As you can imagine, this actually translated into something more like, 'Alone Unarmed and Scared Shitless.'
— Theodore R. 'Dick' Newell, Korean War pilot, 12th TAC Reconnaissance Squadron, on flying the reconnaissance version of the B-26.
It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.
— USAF Manual
Because operators are based thousands of miles away from the battlefield, and undertake operations entirely through computer screens and remote audio-feed, there is a risk of developing a 'PlayStation' mentality to killing.
— Philip Alston, United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, report to the UN Human Rights Council, 2 June 2010.
In Africa we were outnumbered twenty to one, so it was impossible to get any
real success. To get out with your neck, to get home in one piece—that was
success.
Major Hartmann Crasser, Luftwaffe
103 Victories, WW-II
You fight like you train. Motto, U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN)
Fight to fly, fly to fight, fight to win. Motto, U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPCUN)
There's no kill like a guns kill. Lt. Commander Joe "Hoser" Satrapa, USN Gunnery Instructor*
One of the most important requirements for an active air defense is air intelligence. Lt. General Adolph Galland, Luftwaffe
The fighter, even when tackling a purely defensive task, must never lose the initiative to his opponent. Lt. General Adolph Calland, Luftwaffe
[The Luftwaffe High Command] were stuck on the idea that maneuverability in banking was primarily the determining factor in air combat. . . . They could not or simply would not see that for modern fighter aircraft the tight turn as a form of aerial combat represented the exception. Lt. General Adolph Galland, Luftwaffe
Everything in the air that is beneath me, especially if it is a one-seater ... is lost, for it cannot shoot to the rear. Baron Manfred von Richthofen
If he is superior then I would go home, for another day that is better. Colonel Erich "Bubi" Hartmann, GAF
It was my view that no kill was worth the life of a wingman. . . . Pilots in my unit who lost wingmen on this basis were prohibited from leading a [section]. They were made to fly as wingmen, instead. Colonel Erich "Bubi" Hartmann, CAF
Only one man can shoot down an opponent. If one airman has tackled his enemy the others cannot assist. They can only look on and protect his back. Otherwise, he might be attacked in the rear. Baron Manfred von Richthofen
Why let rank lead, when ability can do it better? Commander Randy "Duke" Cunningham, USN
The only proper defense is offense. Air Vice-Marshal J. E. "Johnnie" Johnson, RAF
Always attack a lone enemy fighter from slightly to starboard of dead astern, as 95% of all pilots keep a better lockout to port, as it is natural to turn both the aircraft and body to the left. Group Captain Reade Tilley, RAF
In nearly all cases where machines have been downed, it was during a fight which had been very short, and the successful burst of fire had occurred within the space of a minute after the beginning of actual hostilities. Lt. Colonel W. A. "Billy" Bishop, RAF
Any angles you give the bogey on the first pass will haunt you for the rest of the fight. Lieutenant Jim "Huck" Harris, USN
Fly with the head and not with the muscles. That is the way to long life for a fighter pilot. The fighter pilot who is all muscle and no head will never live long enough for a pension. Colonel Willie Batz, GAP 237 Victories, WW-II
No matter how many SAMs a pilot might defeat, he respected them. Each SAM call brought doubts of survival and numbing fear. They were never faced complacently. Commander Randy "Duke" Cunningham, USN
There is nothing, absolutely nothing, to describe what goes on inside a pilot's gut when he sees a SAM get airborne. Commander Randy "Duke" Cunningham, USN
I fly close to my man, aim well and then of course he falls down. Captain Oswald Boelcke Probably the World's First Ace German Air Service, WW-I
No guts, no glory. If you are going to shoot him down, you have to get in there and mix it up with him. Major Frederick C. "Boots" Blesse, USAF 10 Victories, Korean Conflict
The Yo-Yo is very difficult to explain. It was first perfected by the wellknown Chinese fighter pilot Yo-Yo Noritake. He also found it difficult to explain, being quite devoid of English. Squadron Leader K. G. Holland, RAF Fighter Pilot
The winner (of an air battle) may have been determined by the amount of time, energy, thought and training an individual has previously accomplished in an effort to increase his ability as a fighter pilot. Commander Randy "Duke" Cunningham, USN
The most important thing for a fighter pilot is to get his first victory without too much shock. Colonel Werner Moelders, Luftwaffe 115 Victories, WW-II and Spanish Civil War
When one has shot down one's first, second or third opponent, then one begins to find out how the trick is done. Baron Manfred von Richthofen Leading Ace of WW-I, German Air Service 80 Victories
Aerial gunnery is 90 percent instinct and 10 percent aim. Captain Frederick C. Libby, RFC First American to Shoot Down 5 Enemy Aircraft, WW-I 24 Victories (10 as Observer, 14 as Pilot)
Go in close, and then when you think you are too close, go on in closer, Major Thomas B. "Tommy" McGuire, USAAF Second Leading U.S. Ace, WW-II 38 Victories
Good flying never killed [an enemy] yet. Major Edward "Mick" Mannock, RAF Probably Second Leading British Ace, WW-I 50-73 Victories
The most important thing in fighting was shooting, next the various tactics in coming into a fight and last of all flying ability itself. Lt. Colonel W. A. "Billy" Bishop, RAF Probably the leading RAF Ace of WW-I 72 Victories
Months of preparation, one of those few opportunities, and the judgement of a split second are what makes some pilot an ace, while others think back on what they could have done. Colonel Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, USMC 28 Victories, WW-II
Now [in the Battle of Britain] fighter squadrons could be used economically, so that the cathode tube [radar] had the effect of multiplying the fighter strength several times. Vice-Marshal J. E. "Johnnie" Johnson, RAF
Always above, seldom on the same level, never underneath. Major Edward "Mick" Mannock, RAF
Speed is life. Israeli Tactics Manual
One of our achievements at this period was the "Rosarius Traveling Circus." This was a flight comprised of all air-worthy captured planes we could find. They traveled through the West from unit to unit in order to familiarize our pilots with enemy technique. The leaders could fly these enemy types themselves. In this way we found out that we had usually overrated their performance. The circus proved a great success. Lt. General Adolph Calland, Luftwaffe
On individual combat tactics, aggressiveness is the keynote of success. ... The enemy on the defensive gives you the advantage, as he is trying to evade you, and not to shoot you down. Major Thomas B. "Tommy" McGuire, USAAF
Don't let the [enemy] trick you into pulling up or turning until you lose your speed. Major Thomas B. "Tommy" McGuire, USAAF
Defense against [Japanese] fighters is resolved around the superior speed of our fighters. . . . Offensive measures go according to the number of the enemy, but they are always hit-and-run because the [Zeros] can outmaneuver us about two to one. Major Richard I. "Dick" Bong, USAAF Leading U.S. Ace, WW-II 40 Victories
I started shooting when I was much too far away. That was merely a trick of mine. I did not mean so much to hit him as to frighten him, and I succeeded in catching him. He began Hying curves and this enabled me to draw near. Baron Manfred von Richthofen
You can't fight what you can't see. Unknown
I am not a good shot. Few of us are. To make up for this I hold my fire until I have a shot of less than 20° deflection and until I'm within 300 yards. Good discipline on this score can make up for a great deal. Lt. Colonel John C. Meyer, USAAF
I opened fire only when the whole windshield was black with the enemy... at minimum range ... it doesn't matter what your angle is to him or whether you are in a turn or any other maneuver. Colonel Erich "Bubi" Hartmann, GAF
I liked the whole front of my windscreen to be full of the enemy aircraft when I fired. Colonel Erich "Bubi" Hartmann, GAF
As long as I look right into the muzzles, nothing can happen to me. Only if he pulls lead am I in danger. Captain Hans-Joachim Marseille, Luftwaffe 158 Victories (17 in One Day), WW-II
About 3,000 yds. directly ahead of me, and at the same level, a [Me 109] was just completing a turn preparatory to reentering the fray. He saw me almost immediately and rolled out of his turn towards me so that a head-on attack became inevitable. Using both hands on the control column to steady the aircraft and thus keep my aim steady, I peered through the reflector sight at the rapidly closing enemy aircraft. We opened fire together, and immediately a hail of lead thudded into my Spitfire. One moment the Messerschmitt was a clearly defined shape, its wingspan nicely enclosed within the circle of my reflector sight, and the next it was on top of me, a terrifying blur which blotted out the sky ahead. Then we hit.4 Group Captain Alan C. Deere, RAF 22.5 Victories, WW-II
No matter how many SAMs a pilot might defeat, he respected them. Each SAM call brought doubts of survival and numbing fear. They were never faced complacently. Commander Randy "Duke" Cunningham, USN
In nearly all cases where machines have been downed, it was during a fight which had been very short, and the successful burst of fire had occurred within the space of a minute after the beginning of actual hostilities. Lt. Colonel W. A. "Billy" Bishop, RAF
Fly with the head and not with the muscles. That is the way to long life for a fighter pilot. The fighter pilot who is all muscle and no head will never live long enough for a pension. Colonel Willie Batz, GAP 237 Victories, WW-II
A good fighter pilot must have one outstanding trait—aggressiveness. Major John T. Godfrey, USAAF
There's no kill like a guns kill. Lt. Commander Joe "Hoser" Satrapa, USN Gunnery Instructor
Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems, perhaps even more important than being a good pilot; to make the best use of this system. Lt. General Adolph Galland, Luftwaffe
It is always the one you don't see that gets you. Major Thomas B. "Tommy" McGuire, USAAF
Two of Kitty Hawk's [U.S. Navy carrier] fighters were making a sweep somewhere out there and the Air Force had fighters just north striking Yen Bai. We were obliged to see the bogey aircraft before shooting, virtually eliminating the head-on potential of the Sparrow missile system. Commander Randy "Duke" Cunningham, USN
Never break your formation into less than two-ship elements. Stay in pairs. A man by himself is a liability, a two-ship team is an asset. If you are separated, join up immediately with other friendly airplanes. Major Thomas B. "Tommy" McGuire, USAAF