AIRMAN’S MISFORTUNE
BLOWN UP BY OWN BOMB LOW ATTACK ON U-BOAT LONDON, Dec. 27. How Pilot-Officer G. Griffith, now a prisoner in Germany, blew himself up while endeavouring to bomb a U-boat in the North Atlantic, 500 miles from Ireland, is revealed in a letter to his parents from Bavaria. While patrolling on September 14. Pilot-Officer Griffith flew iow tc investigate a neutral steamer and saw a submarine submerging. Fearin; that it would escape hefor« he cou>'-' climb to a - safe height for attack, Griffith took a chance. The first bomb missed the submarine by 20ft. and the blast from the next blew Pilot-Officer Griffith up. His aeroplane hit the sea at 200 miles an hour, killing the observer. Pilot-Officer Griffith was at first trapped in the / cockpit, but lie struggled out and reached the ship. The submarine came to the surface and made a prisoner of the airman, who was 13 days aboard before reaching Germany.
It has been learned that, some other .British casualties, including the Victorian Wing-Commander Ivan Cameron, who was lost in the Kiel raid, were also due to having been blown up by their own bombs.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20140, 9 January 1940, Page 5
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191AIRMAN’S MISFORTUNE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20140, 9 January 1940, Page 5
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