VP-13 War History has the incident with details largely matching what is reported in your source:
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77666117
Page 30 of the NARA docs.
"VP 13 pilots spent long extra hours patrolling at the end of the assigned sectors and a week later, Lt.(jg) Robert E. Peach, USNR, glimpsed a Betty at 6,000 feet below him on a reciprocal course. Peach reversed his course as he entered the clouds and broke into the clear at 1,700 feet. The Jap bomber reappeared at five miles headed for the Marianas. The Coronado ducked back into the clouds but after three minutes it was apparent the Betty was gaining ground. Lieut. Peach jettisoned his bomb, applied full takeoff power to the engines, and nosed over to the water. Downwind from Eniwetok at 225 knots, the chase could not last long, but seventeen minutes later, protected by rain squalls, the Coronado was almost directly beneath the Jap bomber. Peach zoomed the Coronado within 300 yard range, and bow, top, and starboard waist guns concentrated fire on the Japanese pilots and engines. Gas tanks burst into flame and oil and particles of metal ground into the Coronado windshield as the Betty plunged vertically into the ocean and exploded."