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Old 18th July 2007, 17:49
Laurent Rizzotti Laurent Rizzotti is offline
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Re: Friendly fire WWII

B-17 bombing the wrong side of the fronline

22 February 1943, Tunisia, late stage of the Kasserine battle:

The hide-and-seek weather also hamstrung Strategic Air Force. Out of the missions airborne, three returned their bombs, and a wandering formation of B-17's, lost in the clouds, strayed 100 miles north and bombed friendly
Souk-el-hba.

Source:
http://www.ibiblio.net/hyperwar////AAF/II/AAF-II-5.html
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