Fighter General The Life of Adolf Galland is written and signed by author Raymond F. Toliver.  It is not signed by General Galland. 

Colonel Raymond F. Toliver.  Ray was a  test pilot, military historian and author. Born in Fort Collins, Colorado, he attended Colorado State University before joining the US Army Air Corps as a flying cadet in 1937.  Faced with limited flying opportunities in peacetime he left the Air Corps to join Trans World Airlines. In 1941, as Great Britain stood alone in its war with Germany, Toliver flew US-built bombers across the Atlantic as a civilian contract pilot for the Royal Air Force Ferry Command.   In 1942, with America in the fight, he returned to the Army Air Forces and became Chief of Flight Test at Patterson Field, Ohio. Moving to Guam Air Depot in 1944, he repaired damaged B-29s and P-51s, and prepared new aircraft for combat.   After World War II, he became Chief of Maintenance at San Bernardino Air Depot and then attended Air Command and Staff College, graduating in 1948. He then rwas assigned to East Materiel Command  in Japan. In 1951, he attended Air War College and then was assigned to HQ USAF, Directorate of Maintenance Engineering, where he was promoted to Colonel. In 1955, assigned to RAF Wethersfield, England, Toliver became Deputy Commander and then Commander of the 20th Fighter Bomber Wing. Returning stateside in 1959, he served as Director of Maintenance for Air Defense Command until he was reassigned to HQ USAF as Deputy Director of Operations Forces. Retiring from the USAF in 1965, he joined Lockheed Aircraft and worked marketing and sales for 10 years. In 1975, he began to devote full-time to writing.  He passed  away on 4th December, 2006.

General Adolf Galland

Just before sunrise on Sept. 1, 1939, minutes after the first shots of World War II were fired by invading German troops, a 27-year-old Luftwaffe pilot began dropping bombs from his Henschel 123 biplane on Polish infantry positions near the frontier town of Panki.  On April 26, 1945, two weeks before the end of the war, the same pilot, flying his last mission in a small formation of Messerschmitt 262's -- the world's first jet combat fighter -- downed a two-engined American Marauder bomber over the Danube.  Over those four and a half years of fighting, that pilot, Adolf Galland, shot down 104 Allied planes, making him one of the top fighter aces of the war and one of a handful to have survived combat.. General Galland died after a long illness on Friday at his home in the Rhineland town of Oberwinter. He was 83.  This wonderful book gives great detail about Dneral Galland's life.

This  hard copy book is in New Condition and purchased by me in 1992 at an aces dinner at Nieport 17 in Tustin, California.   It has not been read and stored since purchase.