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VIDEO INTERVIEW: HEINZ MIGEOD

This video interview was done at Heinz' house  in Somerset West; 2010. Heinz was a Stuka pilot in the Luftwaffe and was shot down by SAAF  2 squadron fighter pilot Capt DB "Hoefie" Hauptfleisch in 1942. They met after the war in South Africa and became good friends.

 

Visit Heinz' tribute page HERE

Below a set of  65 videos revealing all aspects of a Stuka pilot during WW2, click the episodes to start the video player 

 

 

1 : Shot down over Belgium

 

2 : Feeding the staffel.

 

3: Targets in France 3: Targets in France

 

5: The miracle of Dunkirk

 

6: Commander Walter Sigel

 

7: Red wine in France.

 

8: Sweet life in France

 

9: Training for BOB.

 

10: Bombing Gosport aerodrome during BOB

 

11: Spitfire encounter during BOB

 

12: Why the stuka attacks were stopped during BOB.

 

13: Bombing of Coventry.

 

14: Attack on Metaxas line.

 

15: Sinking of 2 Greek battleships.

 

16: Mechanic bitten by a scorpion in Greece.

 

17: Sinking of Mountbatten's ship "Kelly"

 

18: Kamikaze Stuka pilot.

 

19: Red cross ship

 

20: Attack on Malta convoy "Pedestal"

 

21: Attack on Crete

 

22: Attack on Partisans in Crete

 

23: Vichy French pilots in Rhodes

 

24: Arriving and dining in Derna.

 

25: Stuka targets in Africa.

 

26: Emergency landing on Vichy French airport in Algiers.

 

27: Navigation in North Africa

 

28: Near crash onto hanger.

 

29: Illegal flight to girl friend.

 

30: Ground crews

 

31: Italian Air Force.

 

32: Marseille cross swords with his leader.

 

33; Marseille, Migeod, Mossdorf party in Bari

 

34: View on Rommel.

 

35: View on Kesselring.

 

36: Encounter with Rudel

 

37: Friendship with Gunther Räll.

 

38: Officers invitation to Reich chancellery 1938

 

39: Flight training

 

40: Parachute training

 

41: Flying and testing the Ju 87

 

42: Diving and aiming with the Ju-87

 

43: Stuka bombs

 

44: Different versions of the Ju-87

 

45: Diving sirens of the Ju-87

 

46: Defensive tactics

 

47: Attack on HMS Indomitable August 1942

 

48 ; Shot down and captured in the desert

 

49: Taken prisoner by the 7th Armoured division

 

50: POW with the 7th Armoured division

 

51: Interrogation by Polish RAF major.

 

52; Suez POW camp

 

53: Trip to Canada on ship as POW.

 

55 ; Attack on Tobruk ships. 56; Kidnapping of POW ship

 

57; Kuhlmey story

 

58: Stuka pilots reunion 1950's

 

59: Old man goulash rations in Africa

 

60: Walter Sigel and reporter

 

61: Saluting Italian officers

 

62: Martuba airfield

 

63: Stuka accident at Argos

 

64: Life as POW in Canada

 

65: Released as POW

 

Ich hatt' einen kameraden; Stuka pilot Heinz Migeod remembrance  

SAAF WW2 HERITAGE SITE
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