Fähnrich Heinz Moschke qualified as a pilot on 1 March 1943. He flew at least two combat missions with the operational training unit 2./JG 101 in Western France: the first from Bordeaux-Mérignac on 31 December. During the second, from Pau on 5 March 1944, he was wounded and was awarded the black wound badge. He was injuted again on 29 April at Tarbes-Ossun airfield (Bf 109 G-2, W.Nr. 14714, his unit being reported as 1./JG 101 on this occasion).

From 2./JG 101, Moschke went on to serve with 2./JG 200, although many his flights were not part of the Gruppe’s response to Allied raids. On 15 August, while the main body of JGr. 200 was embroiled with American fighters further south, Moschke, took off from Orange for an anti-partisan mission after which he landed in Valence. He flew six more such operations during the day, strafing vehicles and buildings. After the last one, he landed again at Orange. These sorties were of 20–40 minutes’ duration and on the first three he flew Bf 109 (red?) “11”, switching to “10” for the fourth and then to “5” for the remainder.

His next recorded flight was on 25 June, joining the rest of the Gruppe operating against American bombers and their escorts, this time taking off from Avignon and again flying “11.”

There is a gap of 14 sequential numbers in his Flugbuch before his next recorded operations, on 5 July 1944. Again, he was not countering American raids but flew two strafing missions against the Resistance from Avignon, landing in Valence after the second of these. He took off on two more such operations from there before landing back in Avignon. From there he flew an evening ground attack mission from which he landed once more in Valence. That day’s five operations had lasted from 56–81 minutes and all were flown in “11.”

The next morning he flew another mission before landing at base in Avignon. Moschke took part in his unit’s fruitless scramble against the B-24 raid on Toulon on the 11th and the next day’s USAAF attacks on rail facilities. Again he had been flying “11” but on 14 July he flew “2” to intercept the 8th Air Force bombers supplying the Resistance of the Vercors Plateau and was credited with shooting down a Stirling. (In fact no Stirlings were present and no bombers were lost, just damaged).

His next flight was a scramble against bombers on the 17th (again with “2”) then on the 22nd he flew another four anti-partisan missions from Avignon in “9.” He flew the same aircraft on one of the unit’s four sorties to reconnoitre guerilla-held areas on the 24th, his last recorded flight with JGr. 200. Moschke’s flights with the Gruppe were signed off in his Flugbuch by “Bell, Oblt. und Staffelkapitän” on 5 August.

Like his CO, Heinz Moschke went on to serve with Staffel Kaatsch, recording his first mission with that unit from Dijon on 27 August.