It is possible that this article on a Fresno newspapers is about him: a Johnson, "reconnaissance pilot" for the 202nd FA Group, lost in May 1945. But the preview is not in the right order, and I have no access to full version (but I think people here have an account for the site below)
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/25854618/
The casualty list available there
https://nara-media-001.s3.amazonaws....5/28-2495a.gif for Fresno county show a Capt James L Johnson O-412661 DNB. No date given here.