MIDGET SUBMARINES

Grey River Argus, 12 September 1944, Page 8

MIDGET SUBMARINES

SPITFIRE PILOT’S ACCOUNT LONDON, Sent. 9. R.A.F. Spitfires patrolling at dawn early last month between the Rivers Orne and Seine, sighted German midget submarines three to five miles front the shore preparing to attack Allied shipping off Normandy. A .Scottish pilot said: "The German drivers seemed to be seated in a glass dome' to a cigar-shaped body about 25 feet long.. They werunable to stay submerged but kept bobbing up like porpoise. We strafed them one after another until they sank and disintegrated, leaving only wreckage and bodies. The Huns were wearing blue uniforms and yellow l.fe jackets. Only one could be seen when we left. He was swimming for the coast which the Germans held-—a ruddy long swim!”