Character

Adolfine Galland

アドルフィーネ・ガランド

Adolfine Galland is a Witch from Karlsland attached with the Karlsland Air Force. She is currently the highest ranking Witch in the world, holding the rank of Air Marshal. Galland was born in Westerholt, located at the northwest of Karlsland, interposed between the Rhine and Weser rivers. When the conflict in Hispania that preceded the full-scale invasion of the Neuroi erupted, Adolfine participated on as a member of the Condor Legion sent from Karsland. But differently from what she expected, she fought exclusively in ground attacks. She accumulated real combat experience and framed detailed reports not only on battle techniques, but also regarding logistics such as supplying and maintenance. Afterwards, she was sent to Fuso as an observing officer, but ended up participating in combat herself during the Fuso Sea Incident upon witnessing the fight between the flying-type Neurois and the new model Striker Units. After returning to her country, Adolfine put out an application for being transferred to the Air Forces. However having achieved countless military results in the ground attack ended up backfiring on her. Not giving up, she repeatedly requested a transfer, which eventually bore fruit with her transfer to the Jagdgeschwader 26 (JG26). After her promotion to Squadron Leader, she was appointed as commander of the JG26 fighter wing. She later established the Jagdverband 44 (JV44), the first test unit of Jet Strikers under her direct command. Even after leaving the front lines, she still adheres to a hands-on approach, doing things like performing test flights herself or sortieing regardless of the fact that she already unable to deploy her magic shield. She receives a deep trust from the Karlsland Emperor Frederick IV and as a result was rapidly promoted to three-star rank and given permission to freely organize units for the sake of the recapture of Karlsland. Using her influence, she helped Minna-Dietlinde Wilcke reestablish the 501st Joint Fighter Wing in Romagna. She is known to speak her mind and make outlandish requests that even her high command cannot meet. She is based on WWII Luftwaffe ace Adolf Galland, who flew both ground attack and fighter aircraft in the Spanish Civil War and Second World War, scoring 104 victories. In March 1945, Galland returned to operational flying and was permitted to form a jet fighter unit which he called Jagdverband 44. He flew missions over Germany until the end of the war in May.