Re: Friendly fire WWII
Hi Brian - an exciting prospect! I can think of a number of incidents well documented :
1. Dizzy Allen 66 sqn who vociforously describes being shot at by Britisk ack ack over Dover ( and later discovered he had been claimed as a kill by Werner Molders ! )
2. Brian Kingcome 92 sqn being bounced by a Spitfire which cruised past as he prepared to bail out.
3. A deliberate friendly fire incident described by Mr Kingcome in his book ' A Willingness To Die '.
4. Chuck Yeager in his P51 returning over Dover from a sweep and being shot at by British ack ack and saying to his wingman ' Goddamn it let's go down there and shoot back at those sons of b****es '. I think he did as well.
Tally Ho!
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Andrew McCallum
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