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Originally Posted by Daniel Prates
It could have been worst. In poor visibility conditions, it was not impossible to have mistaken friendlies for foes. Imagine sinking the Yorktown by accident. Imagine coming back to port, all cheerful like, bragging to your commanding officer that you sank a CV... "oh you SOB so that was you!"
Anyone knows of a real-life friendly-fire situations? Reagarding fleetboats, that is.
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The reverse was the main problem. US submarines being mistaken for Japanese ones. A fleet boat captain could be fairly confident that once in a sea area with skies controlled exclusively by Allied land based planes he wouldn't have to worry about stumbling on a Japanese task force. However, for an Allied task force an enemy submarine could be lurking anywhere.