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Old 5th March 2014, 22:22
Kari Lumppio Kari Lumppio is offline
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Re: I/JG54 location February 1944

Tere!

Luftlagemeldung from Luftflotte 1 for February 16th, 1944 has:

"Tageseinsatz der Jäger: 41
nördl. Ilmensee: 41"

All fighter sorties North of Lake Ilmajärvi (Ilmensee).

"Jäger: 8 Feindlflugzeuge nördl. Ilmensee abgeschossen"

Might have been IV/JG54 from Pihkva (Pskov)? Though I believe that I/JG 54 did indeed have some fighters at Rakvere (Wesenberg) during January.

Flying weather was bad for much of the early 1944. The apparent inactivity may also be because JG 54 fighters acted as cover for Stukas and Jabos and not free hunting? From the Luftmeldung numbers the daily fighter operations are mostly (or all) North of Ilmensee for early Feburary (quick look).

BTW Rodeike's Fw 190 -book ( http://luftwaffereviews.blogspot.fi/2008/08/focke-wulf-jagdflugzeug-fw-190-fw-190.html ) does have one photo of JG 54 Fw 190s at Rakvere and by the look it is quite cold day. In any case it is early winter 1944.


Edit Seems you have the meldungen already. And II/JG 5 was at Pskov then, too.

Cheers,
Kari
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