[Juha]

Hello Nick

I didn’t deny that some of the pilots suffered from combat fatigue but only suggested that some might have been problems to adapt to new and different tactics and the new way of piloting.



I don’t think that the analogy with some Finnish pilots who didn’t success to continue their up to then excellent track records when they changed from by then rather “tired” Brewster 239s to Bf 109Gs in 1943 and 1944 is too far fetched. To at least some of them seemed simply to be unable to adapt to the new tactics needed and to the different behaviour of Bf 109G. When their leaders noticed that some of them were moved away and some simply got fewer opportunities to fly. Of course You might be entirely correct on Galland’s motives. I have read the "The First and the Last" in late 60s and after that haven’t gave much thought on that. So I haven’t opinion on that.


Juha