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Old 10-15-06, 08:50 PM   #6
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2. That might work both ways. How would you like to be returning from patrol and end up sunk by your own ships when they mis-identify you?

How often did that happen in reality? Zero? "


Actually it did happen. One example was the USS Seawolf, which was sunk by the D.E, USS Rowell, after having been mistakenly bombed and marked by a US Navy plane.

Another example was the USS Nautilus which, after a shelling, noticed that one of the shells that hit her was a dud, bearing US markings.

There were several other incidents.

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