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Old 29th October 2013, 22:04
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Re: Friendly fire WWII

One of the best studies of friendly fire I know of is:

http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/cgsc/car...bs/shrader.pdf

Rather than Fratricide, Maj. Shrader used Amicide. He provides historical models showing that typically friendly fire accounted for -2% of casualties in ground ops but could reach 30+ % in bombing/strafing friendlies.

There have been numerous "Blue on Blue" incidents in air combat, perhaps most notably when von Richthofen probably was WIA by a wingman in July '17. We can only guess at what friendly fire must've been like in Bomber Command and the Nachtjagd...
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