SHOT DOWN IN ERROR
Three Transport Planes (Received June 25, 9.15 p.m.) 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 nears Scotland, escaped only because the Beaufighter pilot who fired 20 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 stratoliner between Algiers and Naples. American fighters downed a C 54 as it approached a big convoy between the Azores and Africa. . '
Air Transport Command fliers 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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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 230, 26 June 1944, Page 6
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146SHOT DOWN IN ERROR Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 230, 26 June 1944, Page 6
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