Reports came to light that in the early hours of March 23, a Royal Air Force Tornado GR4 jet bomber had been shot down by a Patriot missile fired in error by the U.S. Army, killing the airplane’s British pilot and his navigator. On the night of March 24, an Abrams tank plunged off a bridge into the Euphrates River on the west side of Nasiriyah, drowning Staff Sergeant Donald May, Lance Corporal Patrick O’Day, and Private First Class Francisco Martinez-Flores. On March 26, a firefight broke out at the intersection where Lynch’s convoy had made its fateful wrong turn three days earlier. In the
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