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Does anyone know how to copy a still from the cockpit video of the incident and then upload it to use as an image in this article? The still would be copyright-free (despite what The Sun says on their website) because the video was made by the US Government and is, therefore, public domain once released. Cla68 23:52, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
This is a remarkably clumsy title. Couldn't it be better placed at something like March 28th 2003 friendly fire incident? Shimgray | talk | 18:12, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
I like using just the date as the title, it's much shorter and still unambiguous. Night Gyr ( talk/ Oy) 22:01, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
As I understand it, the existance of the video was continually denied by the British authorities initially. It was only when the inquest came up that they finally confirmed there was a video. If so, this should be in the article Nil Einne 13:12, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
This article seems to use the term POPOV to refer to the fighter pilots, but the British MOD report (linked at the end of the article) uses POPOFF. Which is correct? Adw2000 15:02, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
This really needs a sentnce regarding what happened. We dont know who shot who until well down the page. Mdw0 ( talk) 08:47, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
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Alright, one coroner with a history of controversial rulings does not make the "friendly fire" thing appropriate. Unless you have indisputable evidence that those airmen went out gunning for friendly troops (and if you do I'm sure the media would love to hear it), putting friendly fire in quotations implies that the action was intentional homicide, and not friendly fire at all. I'm going to remove the quotes once more, and I'm going to request a third opinion once the guy that keeps putting them back responds. 99.250.244.54 ( talk) 02:47, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
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I think Gus Kohntopp should be merged into this article. That article seems to be a clear case of WP:BLP1E: living people 'notable' for a single event. That article has a considerable overlap with this one, as there's not very much to say about Colonel Kohntopp that isn't related to the friendly fire incident. As such, he doesn't need an independent article; a summary of his biography can be incorporated into this one. (Note that the article on the victim, L/CoH Matty Hull, was merged and redirected to this one for the same reasons.) Robofish ( talk) 20:44, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
OK, Done. This was tagged, discussed and agreed in June 2007, but was untagged as no consensus (!) in August 2008: It has been discussed and agreed again, here. So I've gone ahead and done it. There was nothing to merge (rationale is here) so I've simply blanked and redirected it. I trust everyone is OK with that. Xyl 54 ( talk) 01:22, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
Really a whole separate page for this incident, just because of the British media hype. You really need to look at the British freindly fire incidents using ground attack aircraft - as well as close range misidentification. 217.16.113.220 ( talk) 06:10, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
The German joke comes from the Battle of Normandy. Anthony Beevor gives this version in his book D-Day: 'If British planes appear, we duck. If American planes come over, everyone ducks. And if the Luftwaffe appears, nobody ducks.' The Germans said this because, in Operation Goodwood on 18 July 1944, the US Eighth Air Force B-24s bombed about six miles long, completely missing their targets in the German defensive line. In Operation Cobra on 24 and 25 July, Eighth Air Force B-17s and Ninth Air Force B-26s, A-20s and P-47s attacked the US 30th Infantry Division near St-Lo, killing 25 on 24 July and 111 on 25 July including Lt-Gen Lesley McNair, the highest-ranking US officer to die in World War II. In Operation Totalize on 8 August, to the amazement of the watching German armoured units, Eighth Air Force B-17s attacked British, Canadian and Polish positions, inflicting 300 casualties. That's the kind of thing they do.
The same American military culture resulted in this: /info/en/?search=1994_Fairchild_Air_Force_Base_B-52_crash and of course this: /info/en/?search=Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_(1998) -- because, as you can hear on the cockpit audio of the A-10 attack on the Blues and Royals, the US military are complete strangers to the notion of discipline. That ludicrous film of West Point cadets en masse eating soup by numbers at the height of the Vietnam War -- 'Hup two three sip two three down two three scoop two three!' -- that's not discipline, just moronism. The A-10 pilots who attacked the Blues and Royals, like the psychopathic Lt-Col Holland who crashed the B-52 at Fairchild AFB and the Marine goons who ploughed their Prowler into the cable-car in Italy, had never been disciplined or even taught to recognise discipline, or to recognise anything beyond psychopathic machismo and 'USA #1!' lunacy. Khamba Tendal ( talk) 19:13, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
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Unless the aircraft pictured are the ones involved in the attack, why is the image there? — fourthords | =Λ= | 21:20, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
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Does anyone know how to copy a still from the cockpit video of the incident and then upload it to use as an image in this article? The still would be copyright-free (despite what The Sun says on their website) because the video was made by the US Government and is, therefore, public domain once released. Cla68 23:52, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
This is a remarkably clumsy title. Couldn't it be better placed at something like March 28th 2003 friendly fire incident? Shimgray | talk | 18:12, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
I like using just the date as the title, it's much shorter and still unambiguous. Night Gyr ( talk/ Oy) 22:01, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
As I understand it, the existance of the video was continually denied by the British authorities initially. It was only when the inquest came up that they finally confirmed there was a video. If so, this should be in the article Nil Einne 13:12, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
This article seems to use the term POPOV to refer to the fighter pilots, but the British MOD report (linked at the end of the article) uses POPOFF. Which is correct? Adw2000 15:02, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
This really needs a sentnce regarding what happened. We dont know who shot who until well down the page. Mdw0 ( talk) 08:47, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
I'm a Third Opinion Wikipedian. I've removed the request for a third opinion from the Third Opinion Project request list because the guidelines for that project require disputes to be discussed on the talk page before being listed there. Best regards, TRANSPORTERMAN ( TALK) 22:44, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Alright, one coroner with a history of controversial rulings does not make the "friendly fire" thing appropriate. Unless you have indisputable evidence that those airmen went out gunning for friendly troops (and if you do I'm sure the media would love to hear it), putting friendly fire in quotations implies that the action was intentional homicide, and not friendly fire at all. I'm going to remove the quotes once more, and I'm going to request a third opinion once the guy that keeps putting them back responds. 99.250.244.54 ( talk) 02:47, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
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I think Gus Kohntopp should be merged into this article. That article seems to be a clear case of WP:BLP1E: living people 'notable' for a single event. That article has a considerable overlap with this one, as there's not very much to say about Colonel Kohntopp that isn't related to the friendly fire incident. As such, he doesn't need an independent article; a summary of his biography can be incorporated into this one. (Note that the article on the victim, L/CoH Matty Hull, was merged and redirected to this one for the same reasons.) Robofish ( talk) 20:44, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
OK, Done. This was tagged, discussed and agreed in June 2007, but was untagged as no consensus (!) in August 2008: It has been discussed and agreed again, here. So I've gone ahead and done it. There was nothing to merge (rationale is here) so I've simply blanked and redirected it. I trust everyone is OK with that. Xyl 54 ( talk) 01:22, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
Really a whole separate page for this incident, just because of the British media hype. You really need to look at the British freindly fire incidents using ground attack aircraft - as well as close range misidentification. 217.16.113.220 ( talk) 06:10, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
The German joke comes from the Battle of Normandy. Anthony Beevor gives this version in his book D-Day: 'If British planes appear, we duck. If American planes come over, everyone ducks. And if the Luftwaffe appears, nobody ducks.' The Germans said this because, in Operation Goodwood on 18 July 1944, the US Eighth Air Force B-24s bombed about six miles long, completely missing their targets in the German defensive line. In Operation Cobra on 24 and 25 July, Eighth Air Force B-17s and Ninth Air Force B-26s, A-20s and P-47s attacked the US 30th Infantry Division near St-Lo, killing 25 on 24 July and 111 on 25 July including Lt-Gen Lesley McNair, the highest-ranking US officer to die in World War II. In Operation Totalize on 8 August, to the amazement of the watching German armoured units, Eighth Air Force B-17s attacked British, Canadian and Polish positions, inflicting 300 casualties. That's the kind of thing they do.
The same American military culture resulted in this: /info/en/?search=1994_Fairchild_Air_Force_Base_B-52_crash and of course this: /info/en/?search=Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_(1998) -- because, as you can hear on the cockpit audio of the A-10 attack on the Blues and Royals, the US military are complete strangers to the notion of discipline. That ludicrous film of West Point cadets en masse eating soup by numbers at the height of the Vietnam War -- 'Hup two three sip two three down two three scoop two three!' -- that's not discipline, just moronism. The A-10 pilots who attacked the Blues and Royals, like the psychopathic Lt-Col Holland who crashed the B-52 at Fairchild AFB and the Marine goons who ploughed their Prowler into the cable-car in Italy, had never been disciplined or even taught to recognise discipline, or to recognise anything beyond psychopathic machismo and 'USA #1!' lunacy. Khamba Tendal ( talk) 19:13, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
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Unless the aircraft pictured are the ones involved in the attack, why is the image there? — fourthords | =Λ= | 21:20, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
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