I brought this up in another thread,
quoted from a book i own:
"Shimada turned and twisted, adroitly outmanuvering the big P-38s. He turned and twisted, but found himself face to face with a Lightning heading straight for him at incredible speed.
Inside the P-38, Charles Lindbergh saw the Ki-51 coming at him. He instinctively thumbed the trigger, and soon saw tracers coming at him as well.
. . .
"In seconds, it was over. Lindbergh's rounds found their mark. The Lone Eagles turned his Lightning as hard as possible to get out of the way and felt the gut wrenching concussion of compressed air as the Sonia missed him by five feet."
"As he banked away, 'Colonel' Lindbergh and the other Americans could see Shimada plunge into the ocean."