Thanks for your answer.
Clearly, confused circumstances can lead to tragic mistakes.
P.S. : Clostermann also describes a situation in which he fired (without hitting) on a Typhoon he had mistaken as a Fw-190, showing that US pilots weren't the only ones to occasionally confuse the big Hawker fighters with LW planes...
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Originally Posted by Skyraider3D
I heard a story once of a Mustang shooting down another Mustang, after having mistaken it for an Me 262 - thinking the latter's droptanks were jet nacelles!!  |
I didn't know about this one, interestingly it was not the only time when Mustangs with drop tanks were mistaken for twin-engined planes...
When Japan's 64th Sentai encountered Mustangs for the first time (in 1943 I think), they identified them at first as friendly Ki-45 Toryus before realising the were US planes.