Dive

An R. A. F. pilot imprisoned in Germany wrote home about how, diving to bomb a submarine, he plunged into the ocean. Excerpt:

"I hit the sea at 200 miles per hour in a steep dive and went straight down without stopping. I tried to get out of the cockpit, but was jammed in with a stuck roof. When I was almost out of breath I managed to break free and come to the surface. My observer was killed at once, for I never saw him again.

"I then found that I was nearly a mile away from [a] merchant ship, in very cold water, with flying clothes on and not a little knocked about. Somehow I got to the merchant ship and clambered aboard. Some of the submarine's crew were collecting the ship's papers when I arrived. A few minutes later up came the submarine and we were taken prisoners and the ship was torpedoed almost at once, and once more we were submerged. We had to swim to the submarine.

"Well, we spent a fortnight on that submarine before finally returning to Germany."

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