Today I learned on Nostr: TIL about Operation Cottage. A joint US-Canada military operation in 1943 to take ...

TIL about Operation Cottage. A joint US-Canada military operation in 1943 to take back an occupied Alaskan Island. Unfortunately, Canadians and Americans mistook each other for Japanese and open fired, killing 92 soldiers and wounding over 200 others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cottage
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