From ADF Serials
http://www.adf-serials.com/
A46-136 CA-13 959 09/43 served with 4 Sqn; on 15/11/43 it was flying back to base when a USAAF P-38 Lightning piloted by Lt Gerald R Johnson of 9 FS (who became the 5th Air Force's 4th highest scoring ace with 22 victories) fired a burst into the port side hitting mainplane and port tailplane with the aircraft lurching to starboard and lost height finally recovering at 500ft but with the port mainplane on fire and cannon ammunition exploding it was travelling too fast to land so F/O Robert McColl Stewart (408505) lifted the a/c over the river at the strip end belly landed into scrub whereupon it burst into flames and was totally destroyed and all this happened even though it was accompanied by A46-132 and two P-40s; it was converted to components and Lt Johnson had an Australian flag painted on the nose of his P-38 along with his Japanese victories.

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Lt Col Gerald R. Johnson's P-38L of the 49th Fighter Group sported 25 flags at the end of the war, 24 Japanese and 1 Australian. The incident occurred on 15 November 1943 and evidently involved Boomerang A46-136 of No. 4 Squadron, lost that date. My understanding is that pilot survived. The story becomes garbled at this point. One source claimed he parachuted and another that he crash-landed. Further confusion identifies the aircraft as Wirraway, one even cited the Boomerang SN. Others claim the pilot died. Any comment? Phil.