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In Christpher Shore's "Spitfire Over Malta", Siegfried Freytag is said to have crashed into the Med on July 27,1942, He was rescued by German ASR (Do-24),while the British rescue vessel H-128 was approaching him.

He is quoted as saying:"I was pulled out of the water close to Valleta harbour just as the British rescue launches were coming up"

He was Kapitan of 1,/JG-77 Staffel at this time.

In the new Jadgfliegerverbande edition "/II-Einsatz in Mittelmeerraum
November 1941 bis Dezember 1942". No mention is made of any 1./JG-77 casualty on July 27 (There is a 3./JG-77 casualty, Notlandung at Comiso)
but in the text there is a passage remarking that a pilot of 1. Staffel had good luck on July 25th and was rescued by Seenotdienst after a parachute landing .

Was this Oblt. Freytag? This is not included in the I/JG-77 Verluste list that follows the text (p. 302) in Prien's book. There is a mention of
Ofw Kurt Goerbring (2./JG-77) making a "Notwasserung vor Sizilien"
on July 25th in the Verluste column. Is this the casualty refered to in the text and the 1. Staffel reference merely a misprint?