Oswald Boelcke quotes

I fly close to my man, aim well and then of course he falls down.
-- Oswald Boelcke

#Fall #Men #Combat

Always keep your eye on your opponent, and never let yourself be deceived by ruses.
-- Oswald Boelcke

#Eye #Opponents #Aviation

If your opponent dives on you, do not try to evade his onslaught, but fly to meet it.
-- Oswald Boelcke

#Trying #Opponents #Aviation

Try to secure advantages before attacking. If possible, keep the sun behind you.
-- Oswald Boelcke

#Trying #Behind You #Sun

Fire only at close range, and only when your opponent is properly in your sights.
-- Oswald Boelcke

#Fire #Sight #Opponents

When over the enemy's lines never forget your own line of retreat.
-- Oswald Boelcke

#Enemy #Lines #Retreat

Always carry through an attack when you have started it.
-- Oswald Boelcke

#Aviation #Combat

For the Staffel: attack on principle in groups of four or six. When the fight breaks up into a series of single combats, take care that several do not go for one opponent.
-- Oswald Boelcke

#Fighting #Principles #Groups

In any form of attack it is essential to assail your opponent from behind.
-- Oswald Boelcke

#Essentials #Opponents #Aviation

If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.

God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.

Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.

Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words..

As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat.

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.