 Kunyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Mukutanga kwaJune I. uye III.JG 77 dzakatumirwa kuRomania uye dzakadzorerwa kuIV. Fliegerkorps pasi pokutonga kwaKurt Pflugbeil. Boka rehondo rakasarudzwa kuti rive rutsigiro rwomumhepo rwepedyo kuArmy Group South. Musi wa22 June 1941 Wehrmacht yeGermany yakatanga Operation Barbarossa, kupindirwa kweSoviet Union. Freytag yakawana budiriro inopfuurira. Akashuma chikumbiro chake chechi10 musi wa12 Nyamavhuvhu 1941 uye kukunda kwake kwechi20 musi wa31 Gumiguru 1941. Zuva iri akadonhedza Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3 mangwanani panguva yekurwisa mhepo yekurwisa kutsigira mauto eGermany muhondo yeRostov. Aleksandr Grosul naIvan Voytenko ve55 IAP vanonzi vakashaika muhondo. Musi wa 23 March 1942, Freytag yakarwa ndokupfura Yakovlev Yak-1. Staffel yakabata matatu Yak-1s kubva ku247 IAP zuva iri, inotyairwa naMajor Mikhail Fedoseyev, mutungamiri weyuniti, Stepan Karnach, Vasiliy Shevchuk naViktor Golovko. Fedoseyev akaurayiwa nepo Shevchuk akapfurwa ndokumanikidzwa kumhara. Imwe yenhumbi dzokurwa dzeYak yakava rukundo rwechi26 rwaFreytag. II.JG 77 yakatorawo mutoro wakakura wemauto emhepo eSoviet muKukombwa kweOdessa, boka raFreytag risati raendeswa kuKherson. Mumatsutso a1941, JG 77 yaibatanidzwa zvikuru mumabasa pamusoro peCrimea. Muna Zvita Mauto Matsvuku akaita kurwisa kweamphibious kumabvazuva kwedunhu kuti avhiringidze Kukombwa kweSevastopol uye kumutsiridza nzvimbo dzendege ikoko. Mumwedzi wose waDecember 1941 uye kusvika munaJune 1942, kuchamhembe I. uye II.JG 77 vakabatanidzwa mukurwa III.JG 77 yakabviswa nekuda kwekurasikirwa. Kerch yakawira kuAxis musi wa20 May 1942. Freytags II Gruppe boka rakabatanidzwa mukushanda kweSevastopol ne III. Gruppe kusvikira pakati paJune. 