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Re: Friendly fire WWII
Not a new case, but an interesting note from the ORB of 609 Sqn RAF, on 5 April 1941:
"In afternoon Squadron subjected to a recognition test at Station Intelligence Office, won by F/O Bisdee and P/O Hill (the C.O., who took the examination later, cheated by naming a captured Sunderland as one of the types of German 4 engined aircraft, and was disqualified). N.B. Britain has so many new types of bombers, some American, that recognition is at present rather a preoccupation of the authorities. 25 friendly bombers are said to have been shot down by our fighters last month, which is more than the Germans accounted for."
25 RAF Bombers shot down by friendly fire in March 1941, I hope it was exagerated !
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