[Milsurplus] WW2 DIScommunication

[Hue Miller]

Wouldn't you think that USA aircraft, and maybe ships, would all have a 
common
communications channel?
I was reading in IMPACT, which for my money might be the best "war magazine"
of WW2, published in "almost real time", about some "friendly fire" 
episodes.
Example: B-25 strafes 2 torpedo boats near Munda. They are USN boats; one is
sunk. US fighter then shoots down the B-25.  WHY WHY WHY??
Example, B-25 squadron off Cape Gloucester, fires on Val encountered. Then,
LST opens fire on B-25s. One crashes into sea; one crash lands in sea, two
damaged but return to base. Good shootin'!  Example, from "If You Survive":
USAAF plane in ground support, drops napalm bomb on US tank, carrying
infantrymen. "Why I'm not interested in being a reenactor": to be fair, 
don't
you have to reenact such incidents, too?  Maybe preferable, to just reenact
life at the military base, I think, instead of combat. -Hue