Nope, wrong on all three accounts. You hardly find Emils with first line units by 1942, iirc some were used far up the North in remote places like Norway, most simply found their place to German OTUs. The 109Gs did make their appearance in the Med in short notice after their introduction in June, by the summer 1942. Black Six was captured in the late automn in Africa, for example.
When on Earth were they "heavily outnumbered" - the same silly story as Fighter Command being "outnumbered" in 1940? They did poorly, but thats all, its far more correct to say they were outnumbered at times, however, most of the time there was a single 109 Gruppe or so in Sicily, which kept shooting down RAF fighters and bombers, practically without losses in the beginning. They were outmatched, technically and tactically, but not outnumbered.
Besides I sense a that bit of contradiction between the select pieces of successfull intercepts, and the fact that Malta was indeed probably the most heavily bombed place on Earth. Why is that in all the examples presented, probing raids of Ju 88s are "forced" to turn back, and drop their bombs into the sea, yet at the same, somehow, it is unfair to make a comparison because the LW bombed the airfields and docs so heavily..
Main source for me at this point is "
The Campaign For North AfricaRichard Berg Albert Nofi and James Dunnigan, Simulations Publication 1979. I believe it remains the standard text at both Sandhurst and Duntroon, for Trainee Officers in their Military History units. I also used
Aircraft Carriers In WWII Norman Polmar, with assistance by Minoru Genda, Eric Brown and Professor Robert Langdon.McDonald Co, 1969. This 741 page book remains the best single volume work on carrier operations during the war ion my opinion
Now firstly to your opinion that Mer 109Es were not present during the battle. The folowing are the German aircraft receipts for the Med TO from January through to December 1942. CNA gives the arrivals on a weekly basis, but I have simplified this by simply reporting their arrivals per month:
1/42: 12 x Me 109E, 48ME 109F, 15 x ME 110, 15 Ju88C, 6 HE 111, 12 Ju 52, 15 Ju87D, 6 Ju88
2/42: 36 ME109E, 12 ME 109F, 15Me110, 18JU88C, 18He111, 30Ju87, 12Ju88
3/42: 9 Me109E, 45ME109F, 15Me110, 12Ju52, 15Ju87, 12 Ju88D
4/42: 36Me109E, 40Me109F, 12ME110, 18Ju88C, 6AR196, 6Ju87
5/42: 30Me109E, 36Me109F, 12FW200, 12He111, 18Ju52, 24Ju87, 30 Ju88
6/42: 15Me109F, 48Me109G, 30Ju88D, 12He111, 15 Ju52, 10Ju87
7/42: 20Me109F, 18Me109G, 12 Ju88C, 12 Ju52, 12Ju87
8/42: 36 Me109G, 15 Ju88C, 12 Ju52, 12 Ju87
9/42: 45 Me109G, 18 Ju52, 12 Ju88, 12 He111, 12 Ju87,
10/42: 12 Me 109G, 12He111, 12 Ju87D, 6 Ju88,
11/42: Nil
I concede that I was wrong with regards to the arrival of the the Me 109G, I also concede that the the Me 109F had been arriving from the middle of 1941. It had started arriving from July 1941. However, the dominant type for the LW in the Med remained the ME 109E throughout 1941. It outnumbered the F subtype in terms of arrivals by about 2:1 until December 1941, and even continued to arrive in dribs and drabs during the first quarter of 1942.
There are one or two corrections in the above list compared to that given in CNA. CNA says that the ME109G arrived in quatity from April, I believe they are in error here. I have listed the 109Fs as 109Es, and the 109Gs as 109Fs. I may be wrong for those months therefore, though other reference material that I do have suggests otherwise
You will notice also that Ju88 bombers were not received in great numbers. The majority of Ju88s were in fact of the fighter subtypes. However the Luftwaffe had received significant numbers of Ju88 bombers prior to 1942.
Now, so far as the arrivals of spits and Hurricanes to Malta were concerned, Polmar provides the following list for 1942
Mar 07 1942 (Operation "Spotter"), 15 Spits
Mar 21 1942 (Operation "Picket I") 9 Spits
Mar 29 1942 (Operation "Picket II) 7 Spits
SUBTOTAL (March) 31 Spits, 0 Hurris
Apr 20 1942 (Operation "Calendar") 46 Spits
SUBTOTAL (April) 46 Spits, 0 Hurris
May 09 1942 (Operation "Bowery") 60 Spits
May 19 1942 (Operation "L.B") 17 Spits
SUBTOTAL (May) 77 Spits, 0 Hurris
June03 1942 (Operation "Style) 27 Spits
June 09 1942 (Operation "Salient") 32 Spits
SUBTOTAL (June) 59 Spits, 0 Hurris
July15 1942 (Operation "Pinpoint") 31 Spits
July 21 1942 (Operation "Insect") 28 Spits
SUBTOTAL (July) : 59 Spits
Aug 11 1942 (Operation "Bellows" part of "Pedestal") 37 Spits
Aug 17 1942 (Operation "Buritone") 29 Spits
SUBTOTAL (August) 66 Spits, 0 Hurris
SUBTOTAL (September) 0 Spits, 0 Hurris
Oct 29 1942 (Operation "Train") 29 Spits
SUBTOTAL (October) 29 Spits
There were no convoys for November or December, but after the victory at Alamein there may have been air tranfers from the Desert Air Force. However, assuming the main operational type for Malta remained the Spit, transfers to Malta in November and December could not have exceeded 30 aircraft, since this was the maximum number arriving in the ME during that period
FAA arrivals at Malta were extremely limited, and are likley not to have exceeded more than 12 Fulmars for the whole of 1942.
I dont have accurate figures for Beafighter arrivals specifically to malta, however for the wehole of the ME command, during 1942, ther were 309 Beafighter arrivals for the whole of the theatre. As I said, I dont know how many of these were transferred to Malta.
However, adding up the fighter numbers that could potentially be available over Malta during 1942, we arrive at the following
German 633 F
Brits 367 Spits
plus something less than 367 Beafighters, and perhaps a dozen or so Fulmars. Then we have to factor in the Italians, which are not an insubstantial force.
It is simply untrue to argue that the RAF over maltas enjoyed superiority of numbers. In the entire theatre, yes, thats correct, but the majority of aircraft in Egypt and Gibraltar had no impact on the battle over malta. The Germans could, and did, redeply their forces enmasse, because they were operating from interior lines
As for FC being outnumbered being a "silly story", I suggest you go and read some of the posts made in rlation to your claim on that. Numerous people have pointed out the flaw in your logic on this, something you refuse to accept, just as you refuse to accept that the LW lost the battle....simply achieved all their aims, got tired of the battle packed up and went home as I recall