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Were there any friendly fire incidents involving American submarines, aircraft carriers, or battleships during World War II or World War I?

13.06.2025 17:51

Were there any friendly fire incidents involving American submarines, aircraft carriers, or battleships during World War II or World War I?

Oh yeah. These kinds of incidents are quite common even in modern war, let alone back then.

USS Pompano was mistakenly bombed by aircraft from USS Enterprise but managed to escape.

Here’s another one:

Were the 1980s as uptight and prudish as movies and TV shows make them out to be? When I think of 80s culture, I think about a very "icky" judgmental yuppie status quo time period.

USS Tang pictured above, was an ace US submarine… until she literally sank herself with a circular running torpedo.