Hi guys
You can find out more about the WASt at their web site
www.dd-wast.de. Basically they hold the records of the personnel that served in the Wehrmacht that became casualties. Unfortunately it has become very difficult to receive information from this institution in the past years. It appears that I./JG 54 first took the Fw 190 A-5 on strength in March 1943. Many thanks for the information that I./JG 54 was not in the south at the time. I noticed that according to
www.ww2.dk/air/jagd/jg54.htm the Gruppe was based at Poltawa (which I understood was in the Ukraine) from August 1943 to October 1943 while IV./JG 54 was based at Idriza (which I understood to be near Latvia) from September 1943 to December 1943.
Horrido!
Leo