On the night of July 6, 1943 a U.S. Army bomber mistook the lighted Town Square of Boise City, Oklahoma for the night bombing range it was headed for and dropped a dummy practice bomb each time it made a pass over the square. When the Sheriff called the Air Base to report they were bombing the town, they refused to recall the bombers, but instead accepted assurances from ALL of the bombers, when queried, that they were over the real bombing range! Finally, someone put a stop to the fun by shutting down the town’s power station, plunging the town into darkness and leaving the (...)