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Re: Friendly fire WWII
Hi guys
Just to update one incident about which I enquired - on 22 August 1944 I note that a US light aircraft was allegedly shot down by Allied ground fire near Le Mans. I believed that it might have been a UC-61 attached to 27thFBG. I was wrong. In fact a UC-61A of 27ATG was lost 23 August 1944, but off Prestwick in Scotland. This aircraft (43-14844) crashed into the sea with the loss of the pilot 2/Lt Robert Smillie (0-2044996). I still do not know the identity of the aircraft lost at Le Mans.
Cheers
Brian
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