Anyone with an interest in this topic may like to look at the latest
addition to my website.
"Kommando Sommer: the road to Italy" traces the story from the decision to deploy Arado 234s to Italy to the first recorded operation by Kommando Sommer.
The article makes use of a lot of new material that I've been researching over the last several months and among other things identifies the date that the first of the Kommando's jets arrived and the name of its pilot. It also makes a bit more sense of the sequence of orders and changes of mind in Germany that eventually led to Sommer getting the job.