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Old 24th March 2009, 13:40
Laurent Rizzotti Laurent Rizzotti is offline
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Re: Friendly fire WWII

Hi Brian,

Found another example of air-to-ground friendly fire: Verviers, Belgium, was on 11 October 1944 bombed by P-38s, killing 16 Belgian civilians and 4 GI's.

Source:
http://books.google.fr/books?id=f3RP...&lr=#PPA173,M1

Edited:

And another some days before on the other side of the world:

On 7 October 1944, two Indian M.L. (1118 and 1119) were sunk by friendly aircraft in "Indian waters" (or off Burma?) and 9 men were killed. On the same day several crew of other ML were also lost, maybe in the same attack

Source:
http://www.hmsmedusa.org.uk/HDML_Roll_of_honour.html
http://www.hmsmedusa.org.uk/HDML_Story_1944.html
http://www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1944-10OCT.htm

Last edited by Laurent Rizzotti; 24th March 2009 at 18:25.
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