I’ve never heard about American pilots being ordered to strafe refugees. Do you have a reference for that?
smokingfrog, I’m glad you asked. Reference - Yeager An Autobiography General Chuck Yeager & Leo Janos, Bantam Books, 1985 p. 63. He refers to his unit under the Eighth Air Force, but that entity was certainly not alone. Machine gunning women and children is hard to justify. I suspect that most people would think Yeager is a credible source.