[Nick Beale]

Also, extracts from the KTB of the Kriegsmarine Operations Staff (US official translation):

27 September 1942
VI. Aerial Warfare
2. Mediterranean Theatre:
A total of 8 enemy planes v/as shot down on 26 Sep. by the new Me 109 G-2, some of them at altitudes exceeding 8,000 m.

30 September 1942
VII. Aerial Warfare
2. Mediterranean Theatre:
At the German-Italian Army sector there were dive bomber and fighter bomber sorties against land targets with good effects. The successful fighter pilot Captain Marseille was killed on the return flight.