• camarade [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Poor inter-service communication and cooperation between the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe resulted in the loss of two German warships through friendly fire bombing and German or British mines.

      lol

      • D61 [any]
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        3 years ago

        I can imagine those bomber crews high fiveing each other popping open a bottle of hooch and passing it around before somebody gets them on the radio to ask, "what the fuck they thought they were doing."

        • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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          3 years ago

          Given that the anti-shipping air mission and anti-fishing ship mission didn't know about each other, they probably only worked out that it was friendly fire days later.

          I like to imagine the bomber crew walking by the docks like "Damn, how'd you guys capture so many British ships?"