Verbatim (vandaar de fouten)
Steinhoff: "An attack against a unit of Flying Fortresses was something like controlled suicide. If a formation of 1000 bombers, by the way something which will never again happen in history, the flight of the bombers in big formations... If you attack a unit like this you were breathing deep and your heart was beating... As the formation leader you were the first one to attack. To lead a unit of fighters into an approaching bomber unit was a great art. At the right angle, at the right speed... And you're flying an attack, a real attack, against how many machine guns? Sometimes 50, sometimes 80 machine guns... They're firing at you. You're going to shoot down a bomber only if you approach at very near distance. In the last, let's say, 200 meters you attempted to close your eyes and continue firing. Frightened to death... Frightened to death!"
Galland: "The chance to be killed in the last missions, the last ten missions, was very high. But we didn't pay much attention for it. In this conditions, in this time, to be killed, was nothing for us."