Difficulty in specifying an exact date a unit moved from one airfield to another

[Richard T Eger]

From 12 O'Clock High!:

Csaba Becze
II./KG 51 in September, 1943
Sat Sep 27 09:28:11 2003
193.6.243.137

According to Michael Holm's site, this unit stationed in September, 1943 in Kirovograd, Charkov and Shitomir, but from 18 September in Saloniki.
I have a different source, which states, that a German Ju 88 Group (evidently the II./KG 51) stationed in Shitomir till 20 September, 1943.
Anybody have some more accurate info about this unit?

Thanks in advance,

Csaba

[Richard T Eger]

From TOCH!:

Jaap Woortman
II./KG 51 in Shitomir.
Sat Sep 27 09:46:42 2003
212.142.15.102

Dear Csaba,

When an unit has to move from one airfield to another it is not so that the whole unit moves at the same day. In many cases an advance party goes first. Sometimes by car, train or plane. Followed by the planes some days later and they are followed by a rear party. This can explain why you have information of this unit which is different from others. A question of definition and both can be true.

Jaap