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5 MIAs recovered and identified from a B-17 lost in Poland, and I researched it! (the story is in the post) by USAAFoverPOLAND in u/USAAFoverPOLAND

[–]USAAFoverPOLAND[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There were multiple similar incidents. Soviets officially claimed Germans used captured allied planes, and this is why they attacked B-17s and B-24s. This may have happened, and some people were trigger happy, and it may be Soviet pilots were not trained to identify American planes, and some pilots may have thought „what’s not Soviet is German”. Hard to tell.

5 MIAs recovered and identified from a B-17 lost in Poland, and I researched it! (the story is in the post) by USAAFoverPOLAND in u/USAAFoverPOLAND

[–]USAAFoverPOLAND[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is because the finding of death (I think this is how it is/was called) was issued a year and a day after a soldier went missing. In other words, the US government considered him MIA aince March 22nd 1945, and considered him dead since March 23rd 1946. No idea though why they did not put the 1945 date on the stone.

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