What we expect from a(n auto)biography (from: Guenther Rall's reminiscences in English!)

[Kurt Braatz]

Jukka – I’m not sure what you expect. An introduction to fighter tactics? Those aces I am close to are unable to talk about tactics. Their engagements were a matter of mere intuition. And the most succesful of them hate to glorify what they did. I once sat together with Guenther Rall in his beautiful garden after having worked with him on his biography the whole day. We didn’t say a thing. Suddenly, he whispered into the silence: “I saw the faces of most of the pilots I had to kill when entering a dogfight”, and tears rolled down his face.

There’s always a story behind the tales you so obviously love to read.