Friendly Fire PODs of WW2

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Here's something I've wondered about in WW2, especially in places like the Philippines or Malaya where everything that could go wrong for the US or British did go wrong.

Suppose instead of the US or British forces having a bit better situation on their end, how might things go if at some point in the early stages of the campaigns, the Japanese at some point ended up getting a taste of Murphy's Law first hand, suffering some sort of setback due to a friendly fire incident of some sort.

Air strike bombing their own positions. Infantry advancing faster then expected and artillery blasting their own troops. The odd naval gunfire support coming in and pounding their own troops by mistake.

Perhaps even the odd company or so if infantry running into a fellow infantry force at night, and due to each unit's location, one group mistaking the other for enemy forces?

How plausible might such an event be, and how much of a setback for Japan might that be, depending on a given situation.
 
If they were to bomb their own supply columns, or not get word to the airforce that a British supply dump they were looting had been captured and bombed that it could have dramativ effect. The Japanese campaign in Malaya was run on such limiter resourse that any lose of supplies could have resulted in an initial failure to capture Singapore. With sumatra gone singapore would eventually fall any way but post war Britain would have more prestige and better relations with the australia and New Zealand.
 
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