JG 54 Airfield Vitebsk, Oct. 1943

[Hans W. Koerfges]

My father, he died in 1994 was OFW and figther pilot at that unit and that time and based at Vitebsk. He was the Katchmarek of the Ace Otto Knittel During a dogfight of Okt. 15 he disappeared. The "Verlustmeldung" is false, that´s approved by historians. Due to his prisoner file I got from military archive in Moskow he was brougt the same day to a prisoner camp which lay nearly 1.000 km south of Vitebsk. That cannot be true when I remember all teh material I collected.

Is there anyone how has knoledge of what happened at that time in that area.

Thanks in advance for any arrow in the right direction.

Hans W. Koerfges, Düsseldorf, Germany

I attache a picture from 1943 when my father was transfered to eastern front