The Shadow in My Eye — Denmark
On 21 March 1945, RAF Mosquitoes attack the Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen's Shell House — but a navigation error causes bombs to fall on the adjacent French School, killing 86 children.
Operation Carthage struck the Gestapo's Shell House headquarters using 18 low-flying RAF Mosquitoes. The attack succeeded — the building was hit and many Gestapo officers killed. But a plane crashed nearby and subsequent aircraft mistook the burning school for the target. 86 children and 18 nuns at the Jeanne d'Arc school were killed. The 27 Danish Resistance prisoners held on the top floor mostly escaped in the chaos.