Friendly fire WWII

[Brian]

Many thanks Laurent

Excellent, a new one! Plenty of time - Middle Wast and Far East 'friendly-fires' will appear in Volume III or IV!

Cheers
Brian

[Laurent Rizzotti]

Another one, probably you know about it.

http://www.station131.co.uk/55th/Pil...20F%20Capt.htm

[Brian]

Hi Laurent

That's another 'new' one for me!! Excellent.

Many thanks
Brian

[Six Nifty .50s]

Originally Posted by Brian

Many thanks Laurent

Excellent, a new one! Plenty of time - Middle Wast and Far East 'friendly-fires' will appear in Volume III or IV!

Cheers
Brian

Hi Brian,

A couple months ago I was surprised to find a used copy of BRITISH VESSELS LOST AT SEA 1939-45, 2nd Edition. A reprint of the 1947 two-volume official publication covering warships and merchant vessels and I was previously unaware of its existence.

The cause of loss descriptions are sometimes cryptic, but this is a handy little reference guide of tabular data and might be of some use to you.

[cz_raf]

Hi Brian, I suppose you know about this well known accident but as I am not visiting this thread so ofthen I have no idea if you know it or not:
On 28 June 1940, while landing on the Italian airfield of Tobruk a few minutes after a British air attack, Balbo was shot down by Italian gunners and killed. The cruiser San Giorgio started firing on his Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 airplane (bearing the civil registration "I-MANU" in honor of his wife, Donna Manu),[12] followed by the airport's anti-air guns. It is still not clear which of them shot him down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Balbo

Pavel

[Brian]

Hi Pavel

Yes, I do have this but thanks for thinking of me!

Cheers
Brian