Friendly fire WWII

[Laurent Rizzotti]

A search on the forum finds nothing about this loss: on 29 November 1944 a Fw 200 of Lufthansa flying to Stockholm crashed off Falsterbo, Sweden, probably shot down by the Flak of German patrol ships. All ten men aboard (7 Germans, 2 Swedes and 1 Japanese) were killed.

Sources (using Google translation):
http://www.olyckspost.se/airmail/falsterbo.php
http://www.sydsvenskan.se/omkretsen/vellinge/article322013/Nedskjutet-plan-kan-ge-fler-historiska-pusselbitar.html

Brian if you have more on this case I will be interested.

[Leendert]

This was Fw-200 Condor D-ARHW "Friesland".

Regards,

Leendert

[Brian]

Hi Laurent

I have the identities of crew and passengers. An official investigation concluded that the aircraft had been shot down, possibly in error for a US bomber.

Cheers
Brian

[Laurent Rizzotti]

Hi Brian,

I will be interested in the list of crew and passengers of this Condor.

Still finding new (for me) cases.

30th May 1944

At 4:00, the german operation starts after a 20min artillery barrage and air strikes. I./KG4's He 111 bomb enemy artillery positions, claiming an enemy fighter during the mission. The first two german fighter claims around the end of the artillery preparation are a Sturmovik and a Airacobra.
During the first two hours, three times Stukas attack own troops, once even a first-aid station. Two of these friendly-fire incidents affect 23.PzDiv, which is operating on the right wing of the ground forces. Reportedly, this is caused by romanian Stukas, who themselves loose four planes in 93 sorties during the day.

Source:
http://www.yogysoft.de/Bessarabia_5-2.htm

Best regards

Laurent

[Darius]

Hello friends,

I have here some friendly fire attacks of german aircraft against german troops during the invasion of Greece. I have this data from Golla, Karl-Heinz: Der Fall Griechenlnds 1941, p. 134ff.

06.04.1941:
a) in the morning troops (mainly III./InfRgt 125) attacking the "Werk E" of the greece fortress-system Usita-Paljurjones are bombed by Stuka - there are "erhebliche Verluste".
b) in the morging, during attack of the 3./PiBtl 659 and III./GebJgRgt 85 on the "Werk Istibei-West", some Stukas missed the targets and dropped bombs against the positions of GebArtRgt 95 (5 dead, 3 wounded) and vehicles-column of FlaMGBtl 609 (8 vehicles are destroyed).
c) in the afternoon a Hs 126 bombed accidently the positions of GebJgRgt 85 (6 dead, 6 severly wounded).

Greetings

Darius

[Laurent Rizzotti]

Regarding the post of Darius, I'm not sure German Hs 126 were carrying bombs during their missions, but it may a misprint for Hs 123 (don't remember if some were used during the Greek campaign) or it could be a Greek Hs 126 (some were in service at the start of the Italian-Greek war in 1940, and so may have flown over the frontline this day.

A new case for me, reminding modern computers: when an intelligent weapon just proves dumb...

http://www.royalnavyresearcharchive....CORT/BITER.htm

[Bill Walker]

I don't recall if this was posted before, but it is friendly fire, sort of.

http://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/s,canard.html