The important thing in aeroplanes is that they shall be speedy.
The duty of the fighter pilot is to patrol his area of the sky, and shoot down any enemy fighters in that area. Anything else is rubbish.
Find the enemy and shoot him down. Anything else is nonsense.
Whatever Boelcke told us was taken as Gospel!
The murder of a man is still murder, even in wartime.
One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.