Was that the Cajun pilot?
Wow! That cow flipped over and over right pastyoureyes.
No, I think the Cajun was the F-6 Hellcat who made the first Zero kill with a Hellcat. (Jap never saw it coming.) He later got in dogfight with a Jap ace who went vertical. Cajun followed him. If he had been in a similar looking F-4 Wildcat we would have stalled before the Zero and the Jap would have picked him off on his way down. As it was, as the Jap hit the top of his climb and turned over, expected to see helpless F-4. Instead the still climbing F-6 killed him when he began to pitch over.
The F-6 was more than a match for the Zero. The SBD was a dive bomber that couldn’t even do 300 kts. The SBD was a lot more rugged than the Zero and the pilot skillfully employed his diving vanes to juke off the Zeros. They should have been able to easily kill him, but they engaged him like a fighter instead of a bomber. They failed to exploit the advantages the Zero had over the SBD. They should zoomed out of range have made high passes on his two-O’Clock, instead they got into turning fight with a slower but far more maneuverable plane. In a ramming contest the SBD wins every time.