Bruce,
Have you read Parks' autobiography?
He has this to say about his opponent:
"As for the Jap pilot, I often wonder whether he got down all right and survived the war. If I should go to Japan, I might stop a few likely looking old men in bars - small men with fast reactions - and through a interpreter find out if they'd once flown fighters in New Guinea, if they'd once strafed Gusap, and then been shot down by a P-47, and bailed out over the Bogadgim Road. If one says yes, I'd tell him he owes me."
See:
Angel's Twenty.
Park,Ted
St Lucia:University of Queensland Press,1994 (s/b).
p.173.
Park wrote another book entitled, Nanette, an exaggeration by Edwards Park (London:Andre Deutsch,1978). This book focuses on his P-39 "Nanette". He also worked on papers and magazines in Australia post-war.
https://www.pacificwrecks.com/people...ark/index.html
https://www.pacificwrecks.com/people.../obituary.html
Col.