Friendly fire WWII

[Juha]

Hello Brian
have You see the page on Soviet Spits, http://lend-lease.airforce.ru/englis...spit/index.htm? In it the writer mentioned some friendly fire cases, one of which resulted a crash-landing.

Juha

[Brian]

Thanks Juha

Super stuff

I trust you are well
Cheers
Brian

[Oldpilot]

Hedley Everard of RAF 17 Squadron shot down a "navy Zero" that turned out to be a Hurricane photo plane at Magwe, Burma, in March 1942. See Chris Shores's Bloody Shambles, I think volume two.

Freeman Ricketts of the AVG Flying Tigers shot down a USAAF B-25 Mitchell bomber in China, July 1942 I think it was (and the B-25 pilot reported he'd been shot down by two Zeroes!). See my Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault etc.

Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

[Brian]

Many thanks Oldpilot!

I knew about the first but not about the second.

Great stuff.

Brian

[tomdocherty72]

Hi all,

Just joined the forum, hope you don't mind me jumping in on this thread for a bit of help.

"72 sqn friendly fire incident 30 Jul 42"

Can anyone provide details of the shooting down of a 72 Sqn Spitfire over the Channel by other Spitfires on 30 July 42? Yours aye Tom

[Brian]

Hi Tom and welcome

As you may gather, I am doing research on friendly fire incidents but I don't have anything noted for 30 July 1942 for 72 Squadron. What can you tell me about this incident?

Cheers
Brian

[tomdocherty72]

Hi Brian,

I am researching 72 Sqn and I found the reference to the friendly fire incident in the RAF 'Air Power' Journal in an article about friendly fire. It listed several incidents, the 72 one included. I cannot find any other reference to this incident and it is not in the squadron F540. I am suspicious it may be a print error and perhaps 74 or 92 Sqn? The reference give the shooting as by Spitfires in the English Channel.

Yours

Tom

[Six Nifty .50s]

Originally Posted by tomdocherty72

Hi Brian,

I am researching 72 Sqn and I found the reference to the friendly fire incident in the RAF 'Air Power' Journal in an article about friendly fire. It listed several incidents, the 72 one included. I cannot find any other reference to this incident and it is not in the squadron F540. I am suspicious it may be a print error and perhaps 74 or 92 Sqn? The reference give the shooting as by Spitfires in the English Channel.

Yours

Tom

Possibly refers to Typhoon R7853 of 56 Squadron. Shot down by Spitfires off Dungeness on July 30th, 1942. The downed pilot was Lieutenant Erik Haabjoern (native of Norway) and he was rescued.

[Nokose]

Kapt Mikhail Gavrilovich Martyshchenko (Inspector on Air Gunnery VMF) former 5 IAP VMF 18 total victories was flying a combat mission with the 4 GIAP VMF (KBF) in the Ropshi area on the La-5. Martyshchenko shot down Kapt Ivan Leontyevich Tvorogov's La-5 believing it to be a FW-190. Martyshchenko was arrested and wasn't released until 1956. Tvorgov who had 4 personal victories and 13 group survived the shoot down.

[Brian]

Many thanks Nokose, another new one for my records. Do we know a date?

Cheers
Brian