Stuka pilot interview 45: Diving sirens of the Ju-87
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- This interview was done at Dr Migeod's house on 29 May 2010 in Somerset West South Africa. Dr Migeod is 92 years old and was a Luftwaffe stuka pilot who saw service in France, BOB, Balkans, Crete and Africa.
Web site www.heinzmigeod...
Famous/infamous sirens of the Ju-87.
sad fact: he died just a few months after this intervíew
Toasted machine sad, soon there will be no more vets ):
Toasted machine damn he looked good for his age
It's sad but he still served under the Reich but still 1 day I'm gonna own my own stuka with the horns and scare the heck out of ppl down below
oh :(
Toasted machine :(
I get so sad when I think that these men will soon die...our last link to the war.Soon it will be only in the pages of our history books...intangible
RafaelloCraiova It passes from memory into history
RafaelloCraiova I believe they told everything they've witnessed to their family's. Go ask them if they remember.
Much more than pages unlike past wars, Audio recordings, film/digital interviews, documentaries, just look here at UA-cam. Keeping their memory alive much more than ever.
And soon repeat.....
Now it's being sullied, rewritten, and soon repeated
The JU87 Stuka wasn't a fast plane or used by Aces in dogfights. But, it is one of the coolest looking planes of WW2. I love the sound of the siren.
its a bomber
fwwdADwDwa fefh aWEdweddewawdawdwadagawdwag No, Its a Dive Bomber. Totally different. There is the torpedo bomber, high-altitude bomber, dive-bomber, and probably more. There are different classes.
Kylo Ten i know that its a dive bomber. I was just saying in general, bombers are all not that great at dogfights.
fwwdADwDwa fefh aWEdweddewawdawdwadagawdwag thats because it was never designed to be in a dog fight. It was designed to do one thing and one thing only. Dive sharply and get out of the dive without ripping the wings off.
Devin Aschenbrenner yes, i know... I was simply pointing out that it is a bomber which arent good at dogfights. The author of the original comment didnt seem to realise that because he was saying that the Stuka wasn't good at dogfights. Just pointing out the obbious
Even if he was the enemy I give him all my respects for fighting for his country and protecting his family
Agreed
protecting his family from what?
@Tim bro. let? Stalin keep power. What were the people of the soviet union fine do. Walk in and politely request a brutal dictator steps down? doesn't matter the reasons hitler took Poland or any other land. He violated human rights on a massive scale
@@user-mg3bi8xx5d The british, french, poles. The bolsheviks. Later on the degenrate USA.
@@abeedhal6519 ahh yes, the poles. The Poles who were previously invaded by Nazi Germany unprevoked. ahhh yes, the french. The French who were previously invaded by Nazi Germany unprevoked. ahh yes the british. Attacked by germany unprevoked. ahh yes the US. Attacked by a german ally unprevoked. Dude are you insane?
The siren was to let everyone know the power of a luftwaffe
The siren was literally the announcement of your death
24v cummoose The Siren was a Sort of Propaganda as to Blitzkrieg. "Lightning Warfare" use by the Nazi's and a way of Mental Warfare to pummel Allied Morale
and then the British made the Spitfire and pretty much shut down the Luftwaffe but then the Americans sealed their fates with the P-38s and P-51s
my waffles are way more powerful
@@chuggon7595 haha "shut down". Not really. The stukas were still killing it. The Luftwaffe Shot down more planes than the allies. But the allies were several armies who joined together and so of course one country could not compete.
respect to this guy
He was defending his homeland and he was most likely forced to join army if he'd refuse..
TaZZ respect the soldier not the cause
And you name is "Adolf Hitler" XD YAZ
TaZZ YOU NEED TO RESPECT THE MAN you don’t know if he supported the Nazis so just show respect
TaZZ not every german ww2 soldiers were nazis
Hitler, in a poetic moment called the stuka sirens "The horns of Jericho". Of the 7000 built only 2 remain . Both in British museums, neither can fly.
Your wrong on both accounts... They made @3,000 I think and one is in Chicago. There is a rumor that Paul Allen is restoring one in Chicago
* I mean Seattle
William Moore there's a crashed ww2 Stuka in the technical museum in Berlin, the only thing missing on it is the engine
A friend of mine is a aeronautical engineering. He somehow got the schematics for a Stuka, he is trying to build one from scratch, but with a better engine, a Pratt& Whitney PT6 (I have no idea where he got it, or how much he paid for it or if it is actually better, feel free to correct me on this).
Any sources, links?
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE
With their fixed landing gears the stukas look like birds of prey when diving.
It has been reported that the Sirens were also extremly stressing and frustrating for the pilots, missing a bomb drop was even more frustrating when they were hearing the Siren to it all the time.
My dad (RAF Bomber Flight Engineer, now sadly dead tho he made it to 84) told me some of his mates (I'm not sure how involved he was or quite how true the tale is) slung a crate of milkbottles out of their bomb bay over one of the neighbouring airfields for a prank - knowing the airstream blowing over the necks of the bottles would make them howl much like a Stuka's bombing run ....... They did this for a JOKE!
I often think of this when some pious soul mithers about the 'need' to take health and safety to an absurd length (eg, fencing off a river bank in a country park, lower speed limits or more street lights on empty country roads).
LOL
old comments but knowing you brits I know you guys love to make jokes out of grim situations
He had a strange sense of humour.
MADLAD
legend
Bless him. They were Iconic planes and Pilots. May they all RIP. Much admiration
....My Dad came from WW2 Germany...And made Friends with those who fought in the Great War...And even a Stuka Pilot...Who fought over Kreta...
Carlos Krueger Who told you to come to Crete ? to thank you for killing 700.000 Greeks also never forget Plan Liebensraum.
Yeah I'm half greek and I live in Italy, both these countries had many losses but I'm not all butthurt about it, it's war.
Mike Gr Cry somewhere else
@@mikegr2840 his father was only following orders, it might sound like a cliche answer but its true
Better hairline than me
I had a lecturer in Oxford (in the early 90s) who was captured at Dunkirk and spent the remainder of WWII as a POW. He was only 17 at the time and was injured and deafened by a Stuka attack. He said Dunkirk was like hell and a Stuka attack the most terrifying thing you could imagine ("psychologically overwhelming" was probably an understatement). The only thing that scared him more was witnessing soldiers separating young children from their mothers at a railway siding in Poland, not far from what turned out to be Auschwitz.
He looks good to be 92 years old o:
92 years old ? superb !
The war took a toll on him -- he was only 31 years old in this interview
My dad told me that my great grandad was in the RAF in WW2 but sadly he's not alive anymore but it's sad cause he would be the only person that actually cares and understands what I'm talking about
Thank you for your service.
Although he worked for the Luftwaffe give him respect
dylan animations so your saying that the Luftwaffe today doesn’t deserve respect? The only thing the Liftwaffe is, is a german word. Its the German Air Force. Just like the german Word for armored tractor is Panzerkamfwagen. Hence the term Panzer Divisions. Just because he faught in the war doesn’t mean he was a Nazi. Fun fact, most soldiers where forced to fight . It wasn’t by choice.
I think "Nazi government" is a better term, since IIRC Luftwaffe literally means "air force"
It is nice to see how you help him with his english from time to time :-)
Rest In Peace.
loving stuka
By the way he looks up you can see he is reliving it..
Cool interview, and props for using the Transformers OST in the background haha. The specific music is “Autobots” lol
Wow, incredible interview :)
RIP HERO
yeah, the future is rare indeed.
With his sharp looks and great white shark teeth, he is eager to get back in a Ju-87 and dive again.
transformers music in the background ?
+ChristianRG2000 yea
Yes, you have to listen carefully though.
Optimus Prime Theme Song
Yep
Arrival to Earth. Kind of fitting, as this was Alien-like technology.
Amazing aircraft, all around a fat, slow, heavy vulture of a plane, not very manoeuvrable, but near unmatched in accuracy and controllability when in a dive, as well as being capable to carry a rather large payload. It excelled precisely at what it was engineered to do. When air superiority was achieved it was devastating in its role, and even though outdated early into the war and highly vulnerable to enemy interceptors and AA, continued to serve achieving a surprisingly high number of kills till the end of its service at the conclusion of the war. In fact, the most decorated German pilot Ace happened to be primarily a Stuka pilot, the only recipient of the Knight's Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds. Was also uncharacteristically cheap and easy to manufacture for a German vehicle due to some intentional design decisions. Great plane, and brave pilots. Must take something to intentionally point your aircraft in a trajectory directly towards the ground as your primary combat function, and trust that she'll pull up successfully.
She was used as mobile artillery, supporting the infantry.
@biltongbru- Thnx for this post. Listening to someone who has actually been there with the small details from personal experience is a rare gem. Their valuable input is often replaced by an authors focus on literary form,which can detract from the impact of forthright and uncluttered speech.
raw footage of 0:20 without the talking? such a great shot.
Why is there transformers playing in background?
Yes he was an enemy pilot, but diving at a 90 degree angle for precision was difficult. Those sirens are iconic.
So this old man is 100 years old, or he's resting in peace. Rip..
He is no longer alive.
The 17 👎🏼 are the ones who got scared by the siren
He has a good point. While the siren was a good psychological weapon, it also alerted the enemy to your position far in advance, allowing you to seek cover or aim you anti-aircraft fire. Probably did more harm than good. I was watching an airshow demonstration of two A-10s working in tandem and while one flew over high and fast, the other came in low and slow. You didn't see him until he was right on top of you. That's good tactical practice.
Sometimes you just have to go tacticool instead of tactical. I mean if I had to rate which sound is better I would say the siren.
Wunderbar..
I cant imagine how loud it was
The sounds of the Stuka is played still during any any bombing script of almost any movie ad nauem Now everyone knows what the Stuka sounds like, boiler plate for any action war movie LOL !
pretty ballsy flying a stuka
Other than Jesus. There's nothing more intense then a stuka dropping out of the clouds.
Seems legit, a transformer song is playing
Did he died 😭 or is he 98 years old now?
Well this seems to be him on Wikipedia:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz-Georg_Wilhelm_Migeod
So unfortunately, he appears to have died just a few months after this video was made.
seanseanston RIP.
in Valhalla now with all of the other brave Reich warriors
+The Growlanser Wikipedia isn't always right... random people can change anything on that website they could just typed on the article that he had passed away.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
;(
Guys. Turn on subtitles. He says 'I saw Ireland flyi away' and 'I have a big for crack'
Sparkeh :3 1:53 "tits yes"
ChannelNotFound Ikr?! XD
+The Bonkaholic Hahahahaha! These subtitles are a masterpiece!
Respect to ALL German ww2 soldiers.
I wonder if there are any Stukaflieger still alive today?
In war thunder it sounds like a vacuum cleaner
Did any one else notice that the music in the back is from World of Warcraft?
No the soundtrack is from transformers
Transformers in the back ground music?
Yes listen closely
It was perfect
@MrBrandonXP Well.. 94 now.
Start a fight in the comments: Anyone else just want to go back in time to ww2 and be a nazi pilot ?
Nein
Yes, Bf 109!!!
A-10 Better use of resources. And a much cooler sound: understated, "brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt!" but lethal
oh yes, Imagine flying a Messerschmidt BF 109 K-4
Maybe not a Nazi pilot, because I'd be bombing our allies, but maybe an American or British pilot.
FHC is restoring an R4 in Washington State. Hopefully to flying condition like their Fw190A and Bf109 E. How nuts would that be?
he died 6 months later
Luis Albert Sánchez sad
This old man is cool
Am I the only one whom has noticed that part of the transformers soundtrack is in the back
Pipes of Yellowshoe?
My great-grandfather sat in one aswell
No shit, sherlock. This video was made in 2010, when he WAS 92.
The right plane for the wrong war. Poor stukas got shot down like flies when the Allies got total air superiority.
They are good for blitzkrieg, not regular war
they are bombers, they drop a payload, they dont fight
every american bomber is a sitting duck without support
? The CC works for me.
the transformers music in the background is inappropriate and annoying.
Aaaahhhh so the bombs had shrieking pipes that were the pipes of jericho and not the sirens, that makes more sense.
Axel De Sade they had wind sirens and bomb whistles
Only in later versions. The bomb's pipes sound more like the cartoon bomb noise but weren't added until they stopped putting sirens on the planes themselves.
would be great if you just uploaded one whole video instead of posting 6739297 differently videos... just saying.
2020?
MESERSMIT BF 109 OKTOBER 10. JU-87 JUNY 27
Thank god noone is calling him a nazi
Ist er Deutscher?
WW11 aircraft in flying condition are very rare.
I don't think World War Eleven happened yet.
Perhaps WWII?
; )
That's why flying WW11 planes are so rare. They have yet to be invented xD
WW11 is a galaxy war
He good English
@Adolf Hitler yeh
which bears no relevance to what kleptmann said...
👍🏻
But was it worth maybe hurting the Allies morale? It scared the hell out of them.
Pipe of what ?
Ragarnoy Jericho. The sirens on the planes were called Jericho Trumpets.
ahamburger111
there does seem some confusion about this. i think several pilots have different ideas on what was called Jericho sirens and jericho trumpets.
i have heard a german stuka [later Fw190] pilot call the fan on the early WHEELS or WHEEL [undercarriage] of a stuka a Jericho siren.
if the bomb device is called a jericho trumpet then i am a little confused.
many times i have seen and heard the stukas begin their dive and assumed the diving plane with the sirens on their wheels [early stukas had cowlings or smooth metal covers around them on which was placed the sirens] created the sound as the howling ceases at the point of bomb release tho the bombs can easily be seen to travel a further 1500 to 500 feet. [note: US dive bombers of the Pacific never created any howling sound as far as i can remember tho standard height for dropping bombs for them was set to 2000 feet as AA onboard Japanese ships was quite heavy].
ofc, the sound created on footage could have been added by the sound editor.
Noice Transformers theme in the backround of the interview
Why is there transformers music in the background?😂
”Demounted the peace in our group first Allah” ”The pipes of eurasia” CC 👍🏻 xD
Crimea ball closed captioning
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Lucky dude, considering the average life expectancy in the airforce (which I believe it was 1-2 weeks). Cheap aircrafts, cheap lives.
yeah, so?
No shit?