Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - "Gruppe" ya tashi zuwa Sicily a tsakiyar Janairu 1941 kuma ya kai hari kan manufofi a Malta da kuma jiragen ruwa na Birtaniya a Bahar Rum. A daya daga cikin wadannan manufofin sun lalata jirgin sama a ranar 16 ga watan Janairu yayin da ta ke aiki don gyarawa a Grand Harbour, Malta. An tura rukunin zuwa Bulgaria a farkon watan Afrilu a shirye-shiryen Operation Marita, mamayewar Jamusawa na Girka da Yugoslavia, inda ya halarci harin bam na Belgrade
, Yugoslavia a ranar 6 ga watan Afrilu. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan haka, ya koma Sicily kuma ya ciyar da sauran yakin a kan ayyukan da ke kusa da Kudancin Girka da Crete tare da ayyukan kai hare-haren ƙasa. Makonni biyu bayan haka, a ranar 21 ga Afrilu, II./LG 1 ya lalata tankar mai a kudancin Crete kuma ya kai hari kan wani jirgi na Birtaniya kusa da Malta a lokacin Operation Tiger a ranar 11 ga Mayu.