Not too bad at all Glenn, one additional change to the badge, info provided to me was the 'L' badge is more likely yellow edged in Black, with the 'England' portion in Green....will find that detail for you....
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Thanks Wayne for those corrections and answer!
I had no data for those last victories in june 42, I have only the 53rd...
And since the 2 spitfires he claimed before July the 10th weren't confirmed, it confirms your numbers!
I noticed you're from Adelaide, very nice place! i'm surfing a bit (I surfed more, when I was younger...) and Australia is a really cool, but very big place! I mean, the 0.01% of australia I saw!
I noticed some of you are able to consult the Prien's book. Maybe you're able to know if Mr Freytag began the war in Poland in 39 as a NCO, or if he began in Norway in summer 40 as a leutnant...
As for the red heart emblem, Wayne will surely confirm (or not!) that it was used by JG 77 only in late 43 or early 44 as a tribute to Munchenberg who was KIA in North Africa in 43.
Hi Glenn,
have attached a PDF with the revised emblem (provided to me which I think came from one of the JG 77 unit histories) and 2 more images of Bf109F's with the emblem, while I can't confirm the Red to Green for the England part of the emblem...if you look closely at the Fuel triangles on both 109's...they are Yellow edged in white...the 'L' matches the tonal value of the Yellow rather than White.....so that I believe, so the Green could well be correct too!
It seems that Siegfried Freytag was shot down on July the 27th 1942 over Malta, and the story said he was rescued by a Do24 close to the Valetta harbor, under the nose of english rescue boats...This same 07/27, it seems that Georges Screwball Beurling was on a rampage against italian and german aircraft. Could it be Beurling the pilot who shot Mr Freytag down that particular day? A battle of great fighter pilot it would have been, when you know that Beurling already shot two great italian pilots, and even Preu, a very good german fighter pilot himself...
Dear Wayne
I must admit I still have a problem with the rudder, and the tally of Freytag at the end of his russian campaign...
A lot of sources (including yourself, and you convinced me) said that Freytag had 57 victories at the time. One of this victory is supposed to have been scored in Norway against a RAF plane, so I guess it explains one of the cocard on the rudder. A lot of sources I'm talking about are saying that all those victories were scored in Russia...
But some of those very sources are saying that Freytag had only 49 confirmed victories when he was awarded the knight's cross, 03/07/1942...
So how come this rudder could show the knight's cross with 57 victories, but only russian victories ...I guess it should have been 49 victories to be shown...
Were those 57 victories really confirmed at the beginning of July? Or was it usual to depict even un-confirmed victories...?
Sorry to bother you with "amateur" questions...