 Lützow added one victory when he claimed a Polikarpov I-16 fighter on 21 May 1942 for his 107th kill.On 11 August, Lützow handed over command of JG 3 to "Hauptmann" Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke.According to Braatz, sometime in June 1942 (most likely in Grakowo), Lützow was visited by two men from the SS.