I thought you might like this Jan. Extracted from an email to me from Herr Peter Spoden, ex - Gruppenkommandeur I./NJG6.
Hello Paul
I knew our princes very well, met them in the war and read a lot about them. They were very brave men.
Once in a night I was with Sayn-Wittgenstein together, we both got alarm-takeoff and were running to our aircrafts. It was a winternight with lots of snow at the airport. Wittgenstein in front of me lost his left boot, but did not stop, continued to the a/c in a hurry and took off without immediately.
I took off after him. He was successful and I did not find any in this night. Just a true story in those days.
best regards
Peter