Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Bayan yakin Faransa an aika Peltz zuwa Greifswald don horar da juyawa zuwa Junkers Ju 88. A watan Agusta 1940 an tura shi zuwa "Geschwaderstab" (sashin hedkwatar) na "Kampfgeschwader" 77 (KG 77<unk>77th Bomber Wing) da ke Laon a gaban Channel
Ka yi haƙuri. Ya tashi 70 rana da dare manufa a cikin Battle of Britain ciki har da musamman da ayyukan da shi kadai kai farmaki takamaiman hari. Bayan aikinsa na 130 a matsayin matukin jirgi mai saukar ungulu a kan Poland da Faransa, da kuma matukin jirgi mai saukar ungulu a Ingila, an ba shi lambar yabo ta Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross () a ranar 14 ga Oktoba, 1940. "Reichsmarschall" (Marshal na Empire) Hermann Göring ne ya gabatar da gabatarwar, ya karɓi lambar yabo tare da "Major" (Major) Friedrich Kless, "Gruppenkommandeur" (shugaban rukuni) na II./"Kampfgeschwader" 55 (KG 55<unk>55th Bomber Wing).