[Laurent Rizzotti]

According to the book "JG 26 War Diary" by Don Caldwell, Fritzlehner was shot down and killed by bomber return fire at 1210 hrs during the first series of attacks launched by III./JG 26 on the first group of 146 B-17s. III./JG 26 claimed to have damaged 4 B-17s seriously enough to make them drop out of formation but apart from Fritzlehner another pilot, Oblt Hans-Georg Dippel, was shot down and bailed out, and a third one, not named, was wounded and belly-landed near Asperen.