Vox Populi:

Although Switzerland was not actively involved in WWII, it suffered a total of seventy bombings by Allied airplanes between 1940 and 1945.

Starting in January of 1943, exactly eighty years ago, USAAF, bombers, stationed in Britain, began day-time attacks on German industry, ports and cities. Inevitably, they occasionally went off course, either because of radar misfunction or poor weather condition, and hit Swiss targets instead. In addition to bombing raids, air attacks by individual fighter planes strafed Swiss targets and in one incident, American Mustangs, escorting a damaged B-17 bomber into Swiss air space, shot down a Swiss Messerschmitt, killing the pilot and damaging another plane, mistaking them for German planes. They must also have mistaken the Swiss flag – a white cross in a red field – prominently painted on the aircraft, for a German swastika!

            The worst incident occurred on April 1, 1944 in a day-light bombing of the border town of Schaffhausen. Fifty B-24H Liberators dropped 60 tons of bombs.  The attack that lasted just 40 seconds, but it killed 60 people, wounded hundreds and destroyed much of the town’s historic center as well as several factories, leaving hundreds homeless and without jobs. Radar misfunction had led the bombers almost 150 miles from the intended target of Ludwigshafen in Germany. 

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