[Stig Jarlevik]

Dear Jochen

From the Intro and Acknowledgement section of the book Malta the Spitfire years, it is obvious that most of the German data has come from the researches of Winfried Bock and also Hans Ring who "provided the vast majority of the Luftwaffe material in the book".

Obviously the three authors, Shores, Cull and Malizia has relied on their information and don't quote any first hand German sources.

What is interesting is that we do have a quote from Freytag's lipps so to speak, and I suppose there is a great possibillity that one of the German gentlemen had actually interviewed Freytag, unless of course the latter has written some kind of statement himself postwar, which I don't know....

Cheers
Stig