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Battle of Barking Creek
Friendly fire aviation incident in 1939 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Battle of Barking Creek was a friendly fire incident over England on 6 September 1939 that caused the first death of a British fighter pilot in the Second World War.
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Part of the Western Front of World War II | |||||||
![]() A flight of No. 151 Squadron Hurricanes, a squadron involved in the incident, taking off from North Weald | |||||||
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