Ian Moore – Tommy Gould released unexploded bomb under casing

I mean some of the VCs that were awarded in submarines. One of them was to a chap called Tommy Gould, who during the 2nd World War, a bomb hit the submarine and got jammed underneath the casing but didn’t go off.

There are two things with that. If it goes off, everybody dies. Whoever we send under the casing to try and get it out and push it over the side – If the enemy come back, the submarine will have to dive and whoever is under the casing will die.

Tommy Gould and one of the Officers onboard, they volunteered to actually go under the casing and release it, knowing full well that if the enemy came back, they were going to die.

If the bomb went off, they were going to die.

The reason why they went under the casing, is because the rest of their mates meant more to them than the job itself and what they were actually doing. Forget about gongs, nobody was thinking about medals or anything else.

They were thinking about how do I save my mates? If I can get rid of that bomb, my mates are safe.