Into the Fire ; John Hudson Talks to Bill Cunningham About Life On a Minesweeper

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Friendly fire: it's an almost obscenely inadequate way of describing those disasters of war when forces mistakenly target their brothers-in-ar ms.

For people who have seen them and their aftermath at close quarters, they leave a sense of outrage and injustice that never goes away.

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Into the Fire ; John Hudson Talks to Bill Cunningham About Life On a Minesweeper

Bill Cunningham, of Long Ashton, is 84 but still has vivid memories of one of the most notorious friendly fire incidents of the Second World War, when rocket-firing RAF Typhoons attacked a British minesweeping flotilla off Le Havre on August 27, 1944.

In the carnage that followed, ...

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