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Originally Posted by Reno
The info I have read states the action was against 15 FW-190 A-4s of JG1 over Ostend and the unit suffered no losses except one a/c that force landed. As I mentioned previously, Blakeslee was a veteren and would surely have known when he clobbered an a/c and that it crashed into the sea. The locations given for the 4th FG kills were W/Olstend, Belgian coast and Knocke (Blakeslee's).
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It depends on the evidence used for evaluation, like gun camera film or eyewitness reports from Blakeslee's wingman or another pilot. If the gun film did not show a plane crash into the sea, or there was no witness, then a Focke-Wulf should not have been counted as destroyed.
One other possibility is that the three FWs seen by Blakeslee were from a ferry flight, or flown by pilots who were visiting German bases for some reason.