Right URL is
http://www.kmt.org.tw/english/page.a...m=12623&kw=102
More details and a photo at
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiw.../05/2003556324.
As for the claim that he destroyed 42 aircraft, the second article said he led a raid that destroyed 42 aircraft on November 25, 1943.
The sino-japanese air war chronology available on
http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/sino-japanese-1943.htm says the following about this raid:
Allied point of view:
14 B-25s and 16 P-38s and P-51s from the 14th AF attacked the airfield at Shinchiku on Formosa, hitting a parking area, hangars, barracks, and other buildings. 32 enemy aircraft were claimed destroyed in the air and on the ground.
Six B-25s from 2nd BS (CACW) took part in the attack, leaving Kweilin at 06:00 and staged through Suichwan, where they picked up eight B-25s of the 11th BS and a fighter escort of P-38s and P-51s of the 23rd FG after they refuelled.
The formation crossed the Formosa Straits at minimum altitude and caught the Japanese completely unprepared. A few Japanese aircraft in the landing pattern were quickly shot down by the P-38s as the bombers climbed to 1,000ft to release their fragmentation bombs, which were armed with instant fuses. Seeing that there were no opposing interceptors and only minimum AA defence, Lieutenant Colonel Branch led his flight down for a strafing pass before they headed for home. Even the turret gunners got into the act, firing into a barrack area as the bombers swept low over the field. For this action, Lieutenant Colonel Branch was awarded a Distinguish Flying Cross.
The Shinchiku raid was the most successful thus far in the history of the 14th AF, and the 2nd BS received commendations from Colonel Vincent and Lord Mountbatten for its part in the attack.
Japanese point of view (Hsinchu is another name for Shinchiku):
14 P-38s and six B-25s in a low level bombing raid on Hsinchu destroyed and damaged some 27 aircraft, and inflicted some 45 casualties. The Japanese IJNAF claimed three aircraft shot down.
This raid is also described in some details in the book "Sharks over China" by Carl Molesworth, pages 161-164: escort was flown by 8 P-38s of 449th FS and 8 P-51s of 76th FG (one aborted). The P-38s claimed 12 bombers/two-engine aircraft shot down, the P-51s two fighters shot down. No precise details of the ground claims. No loss on the Allied side. It was the first mission for the B-25s of the CACW and one of the first for the P-51s of 23rd FG.