AIR FORCE MISTAKES
FRIENDLY PLANES SHOT
DOWN
WASHINGTON, June 25,
Three large American transport planes have been shot down by mistaken friendly fire. One C 54 Skymaster, carrying a score of passengers near Scotland, escaped only because the Beaufighter pilot who fired 20 cannon rounds at it happened' to be the worst shot of his outfit. An Allied-fighter shot down, one C 54 over the Atlantic, with a score of deaths. A British plane shot down a C 47 strato-liner between Algiers and Naples. American, fighters shot down a C 54 as it approached a> big convoy between the Azores and Africa.
Air Transport Command flyers are naturally disturbed at this kind of event, but, in view of the number of hours flown and the regularity of the service they maintain, it is a wonder more mistakes are not made.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 149, 26 June 1944, Page 5
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