Entrevista a Piloto Alemán que Combatió con un Messerschmitt Me 262: Jorg Czypionka

Video from the channel Historias Bélicas Que Merecen Ser Contadas about Messerschmitt Me 262, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 8:54. Language: Spanish. Video type: News.

The channel presents an interview with Jorg Czypionka, a Luftwaffe pilot who flew the Messerschmitt Me 262 as a night fighter, with answers obtained by historian José Antonio, author of the book "Águilas de la Luftwaffe" (Eagles of the Luftwaffe). Czypionka answers questions about the quality of the Luftwaffe, the loss of air superiority, the Allied bombing campaign, Hermann Göring's leadership and his own experience with the jet.

Before the questions, the video summarizes the course of the air war: the British raid on Lübeck in March 1942, the raid of more than a thousand bombers on Cologne in May of that year, and the intensification of 1943 and 1944 with the arrival of American bombers. Czypionka was a flight instructor from 1940 to 1944, when he moved to a night-fighter unit chasing British Mosquitoes with the Bf 109, with almost no success.

According to his account, with the Me 262 the unit went from downing no Mosquitoes in months to shooting down one or several per sortie, above all its commander Welter, although by 1945 the aircraft no longer had any influence on the outcome of the war. The video closes by concluding that the bombing campaign did not break German morale or production, but it did tie down a large part of the Luftwaffe in defending home territory.