Private First Class
C CO, 8TH ENGINEER BN, 1 CAV DIV
Army of the United States
19 November 1943 - 17 November 1965
Rigby, Idaho
Panel 03E Line 088
Private First Class
C CO, 8TH ENGINEER BN, 1 CAV DIV
Army of the United States
19 November 1943 - 17 November 1965
Rigby, Idaho
Panel 03E Line 088
Gotta wonder what the real casualty figures from so-called "friendly fire" were in every war since WWII. In some battles I'm sure they exceeded the number of deaths by enemy fire.
I did a google search and came up with a website, but it does not offer a lot of info on how it gathered its statistics so I am hesitant.
http://www.americanwarlibrary.com/ff/ff.htm
Most of what I found is about more recent days and tend to highlight incidents.
My dad was in the Pacific in WWII and saw Marine fighter pilots strafed fellow Marines. From what my dad said the Japanese had been in that area about 30 minutes earlier. An air strike was called in. By the time the planes got there, the Japanese had retreated and the Marines had entered the area. Either no one told the Marines a strike was coming, no one had called off the air strike or the message get not reach the pilots in time.
Another time his company was in close quarters and some shells from the Navy ship offshore landed awfully close. The firing in those days was not all that precise. Luckily he said no Marine was hurt but it was scary close.
That was our grandfathers generation who blindly served the US Govt idiots who stole everything land locked up us Japanese people in concentration camps in 1942. My parents generation rebelled against the US Govt and instead became massive farm owners, doctors, professors, engineers, and scientists.
OMG I just watched Mr Galloway describe how Jimmy died.