Two questions about 8./JG 54 in June 1941

[oquaig]

Hi everyone,

Two questions about 8./kg 54 : according to ww2.dk 8./JG 54 was at Laschen, east Prussia, from 20.6.41 to 26.6.41 so where is Laschen ? When they left Laschen I assume they went to Kedainiai with the rest of the gruppe, but when ? I find some dates for arrival of the gruppe at Kedainiai as 26 June, others say 27 or 28 June. Is there a definitive answer ?

Thanks in advance
oquaig

[Andy Mitchell]

oquaig,

Use this page and enter Laschen in the town/ort name field - it will return several locations in East Prussia.

[Nick Beale]

Also there's a very good useful (and downloadable) map of airfields in Bundesarchiv RL 7-11/13 (on page 17). It stretches from Metz in the west across to East Prussia and western Poland (essentially the "Greater German Reich"plus Denmark, parts of Holland and the north of Italy).

[oquaig]

Originally Posted by Andy Mitchell

oquaig,

Use this page and enter Laschen in the town/ort name field - it will return several locations in East Prussia.

Thanks for the Kartenmeister link. I had it on my last computer but it didn’t get transferred to my new one. Nice to have it back. I found two Laschens. One is 37 km SSE of Klaipeda (Memel) now called Laši. In Timin’s book there is a map that indicates Laschen airfield was here, but according to all the German maps there never was an airfield here.

Originally Posted by Nick Beale

Also there's a very good useful (and downloadable) map of airfields in Bundesarchiv RL 7-11/13 (on page 17). It stretches from Metz in the west across to East Prussia and western Poland (essentially the "Greater German Reich"plus Denmark, parts of Holland and the north of Italy).

Thanks for the RL 7-11/13 file. I have overlays for Luftflotte 1 that go with this map. One shows the deployment of Flak units, the other shows Fliegerkorps I airfields with III./JG 54 at Schlossberg (after 1939, Pillkallen before, now Dobrovol’sk) and an airfield to the SW. Using the Kartenmeister, and the Deutsche Heereskarte, I found Laschen 3.3 km SW of Schlossberg (it no longer exists, it’s just an empty field now), 54.758896N 22.456174E.

I have seen a report about the forward command post Fliegerkorps I moving to Kedainiai on 25.6.41. III./JG 54 is said to have moved there on 26.6.41, but I still wonder if that was the entire gruppe or just 7.9./JG 54.

Thanks again
oquaig