While there seem to be no Allied claims on 20 August to account for the loss of the two Junkers Ju 52 of II./TG 1 at Courmayeur, US Navy pilots claimed three such machines at 16.15 hours on the following day.

The airmen concerned were members of VOF-1, which had both fighter and artillery-spotting roles, flying F6F-5 Hellcats off the escort carrier USS Tulagi (CVE-72). The 21st was the carrier's last day supporting the DRAGOON landings.

During a fighter-bomber attack on a retreating transport convoy, two Ju 52s were claimed by Ensign (j.g.) Edward W. Olszewski and a third by Ensign Richard W.B. Yentzer.

The location is variously described as "north of Orange" (a long way from Courmayeur) and "near La Capella." The latter sounds like an Italian name but so far I have not been able to locate it.

To match these claims with the two German losses, one has to allow for the possibility that either the Luftwaffe or the USN recorded a wrong date and that the Americans were not very precise about the location of the combat. (I'm supposing that the Germans who found the wrecks and recovered the bodies of their crews would have got the place right but you never know …).