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During the Cold War NATO pilots were ordered to fly wearing eye patches, so that if they were blinded by the flash of a nuclear bomb they still had one good eye.
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Lt. Colonel Dale Zelko, who's F117A was shot down in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, is now friends with and runs a bakery with the Serb who shot him down: Colonel Zoltán Dani.
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The oldest living Alligator, "Muja" in the Belgrade Zoo, not only survived WW2 (where the Belgrade zoo was almost totally destroyed) but also the 1999 NATO bombings during the war in Serbia, 54 years later. He is estimated to be at least 80 years old. But there are no records of his DOB.
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The Chinese embassy in Belgrade was accidentally bombed by a US plane in a NATO campaign. It was the only bombing in the entire campaign organized and directed by the CIA.
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The bloodiest attack on journalism in Europe in recent memory happened on April 23, 1999 when NATO bombed the headquarters of Serbian state radio and television, killing 16 people
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In 1999 NATO bombed the headquarters of Serbian television because it's Milosevic's propaganda machine and is therefore "a legitimate target".
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1994 Feb 28, Two U.S. F-16 fighter jets downed four Serb warplanes that U.N. officials said had bombed an arms plant run by Bosnia's Muslim-led government. This was the first NATO use of force in the troubled area."
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Yugoslavian Army in NATO bombing campaign over Kosovo used dummy cardboard tanks and other military equipment with portable quartz furnaces hidden inside of them. As a result, NATO destroyed "3 tanks, not 120; 18 armored personnel carriers, not 220; 20 artillery pieces, not 450".
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SWAG is military parlance for a lazy hypothesis, a 'Scientific Wild-Ass Guess' made by an expert in the field. It was first widely used in connection to NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia.
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Nato Bombed the factory where Yugos were made
On this day 15 years ago, the only successful shoot-down of a F-117A stealth plane took place, during the NATO bombing of Serbia. The Pilot ejected safely. Since then the US pilot and Serb that shot him down have become good friends. - source
The FBI and Spanish forensic team failed to find a single mass grave in Kosovo after NATO bombings. United Nationscount of the dead: 2,788. This included combatants on both sides and Serbs and Roma murdered by the KLA. There was no genocide. - source
The 1999 NATO bombings of Serbia & Montenegro were technically never legally authorized by United States Congress
During the Kosovo War, Serbians fooled NATO jets into deploying bombs by building fake tanks which they made from old tires, plastic sheeting and logs, while setting fuel alight to mimic the tank's heat emissions. Some sources report that NATO bombed hundreds of such decoys. - source
