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Old 14th March 2005, 17:00
Six Nifty .50s Six Nifty .50s is offline
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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).
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.
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