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They would have been as likely to be booby-traps for the unintended otherwise- there would have been a need to allow for the many accidents on home soil and the innocent coming across debris to set against any fortuitous harming of the "other side"- one of my friends told me how his father, then living in the Suffolk countryside, had seen 3 B-24s colliding when forming formation and the local farm-workers were bringing parts in from remote fields for many weeks afterwards.