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Originally Posted by chico20854
April 19, 1997
A patrol from the 27th Panzer Division makes contact with outer pickets of the US 1st Infantry Division's 4th Battalion, 16th Infantry. Unfortunately, the American troops mistake the former East German division's T-72s for Polish tanks, and five of the German tanks are destroyed in the resulting American firefight before the error is discovered.
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God, this brings back memories. Having to remind my gunner during Desert Storm that Syrian tanks look like Iraqi tanks, so make sure we were shooting at the right ones.