OWN PLANES SHOT DOWN
ALLIED TRAGIC ERRORS WASHINGTON, June 25. Three large American transport planes have been shot down by mistaken friendly fire. In one case, a C. 54 Skymaster plane, carrying a score of passengers, near Scotland, escaped only because a Beaufighter pilot, who fired twenty rounds of cannon 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 downed a C. 54 as it approached a big convoy between the Azores. The African Air Transport Command naturally are disturbed at this kind of event. In view of the number of hours they have flown and the regularity of the service they maintain it is a wonder more mistakes have not’been made.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 June 1944, Page 6
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