ASTONISHING ESCAPE
MAN DANGLING BENEATH BOMBER. DROPPED SAFELY INTO DEEP SNOWDRIFT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) MONTREAL, December 22. Hearing cries of “Help, help,” Captain Gerow, piloting a Boston fighter-bomb-er, called out to Harry Griffiths, who was in the bow compartment making compass tests, if he was O.K. Griffiths did not respond, whereupon Gerow, assuming that he had slipped through the floor-trap and was dangling beneath the plane .throttled down the bomber, sought out a deep snowdrift, steered for it at a dangerously low altitude, and yelled, “Now, drop.” He climbed steeply and saw his companion struggling to his feet and brushing off the snow. [Griffiths was taken to hospital and is '“resting quietly.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 December 1942, Page 2
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