DARING PILOT
DIVERTED FLYING BOMB
Rec. 10.15 a.m,
LONDON, June 25.
An extraordinary story »is told of how a fighter pilot, by quick thinking and cool courage, pushed a flying bomb from its- course over southern England, thereby helping to avoid serious casualties.
Watchers saw three fighters attack the bomb and silence its engine. One of the pursuing" pilots then flew up to the bomb, and when level with, it tipped it on its side with his wing, diverting it several hundred yards. As a result, the bomb dropped in a garden at the rear of an old people's home. The blast caused some damage, but no occupants were hurt.
The pilot who deflected the bomb from its course was Flying Officer Kenneth Roy Gollier, of Sydney, who is an auxiliary pilot with an R.A.F. squadron.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 149, 26 June 1944, Page 3
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