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3 unusual facts about Friendly Fire


Deathmatch

Friendly fire may or may not cause damage, depending on the game and the rules used — if it does, players that kill a teammate (called a team kill) usually decrease their own score and the team's score by one point; in certain games, they may also themselves be killed as punishment, and/or may be removed from the game for repeat offenses.

Friendly fire

Late in the war the "protection squadron" that covered the elite German jet fighter squadron as it landed or took off were brightly painted to distinguish them from raiding Allied fighters.

Similar markings had been used when the Hawker Typhoon was first introduced into use as it was otherwise very similar in profile to a German aircraft.


C. D. B. Bryan

It describes an Iowa farm family, Gene and Peg Mullen, and their reaction and change of heart after their son's accidental death by friendly fire in the Vietnam War.

Friedrich Gollwitzer

In particular, Gollwitzer was accused of ordering the execution of 18 Poles in a village Torzeniec which was blamed for the of death of three German soldiers (in fact the soldiers were victims of friendly fire).

Livingstone Airfield

The airfield was named after Lieutenant Livingstone of 9th Fighter Squadron of the 49th Fighter Group who was killed as result of friendly fire when he was hit by Australian anti-aircraft guns during a Japanese air raid near Cox Peninsula, Darwin, Northern Territory in 4 April 1942.

No. 77 Squadron RAAF

The next day, a friendly fire incident occurred when the No. 77 Squadron attacked a train full of American and South Korean forces in the main highway between Suwon and P'yongtaek, believing that it was carrying North Korean forces, resulting more than 700–1000 casualties.

ORP Jastrząb

ORP Jastrząb ("Hawk") was an old Holland-type S-class submarine, originally of the United States Navy, in Polish service between 1941 and 1942, when she was lost to friendly fire.

Peg Mullen

Her life story was made into the Emmy Award-winning 1979 film Friendly Fire starring Carol Burnett, which was based on a 1976 book of the same name by C. D. B. Bryan.

The Short-Timers

After his quick recovery, Joker learns that the platoon commander was killed by a friendly grenade, while the squad leader went insane and attacked an NVA position with a BB gun only to be shot down.


see also

Battle of Karánsebes

Gideon, who led the Israelites to cause a similar friendly-fire incident in the Midianites camp, according to the Book of Judges

Brian Dickson

In August 1944, during a battle near Falaise, Dickson's right leg was hit by friendly fire and had to be amputated.

Cutter John

(In those days his name was given as "Saigon John" and his war injury is described as taking a shot (presumably friendly fire) while smoking a bong (improvised from his M16) with a North Vietnamese soldier, making his tunnel rat story presumably a retcon.

Daniel J. Travanti

In January–March 2007, Travanti appeared off-Broadway in Oren Safdie's The Last Word... at the Theater at St. Clements in New York City, and in November–December 2008, Travanti played the "Con Melody" in an off-off Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet for Friendly Fire Theater in New York.

Peg Mullen

The book was turned into the 1979 television film Friendly Fire, starring Carol Burnett.

William H. Keith, Jr.

"Friendly Fire" (writing as H. Jay Riker) in First to Fight II (2001) ISBN 978-0-425-18007-5