No. They specifically attacked a formation of Zero fighters, as I recall.
They formed several thousand feet over Boyington’s reported altitude, which placed them still well=below him and his men.
The book specifically stated that Boyington knew he was being played by a Japanese pilot requesting his FL.
Granted, it’s a book.
Maybe.
Sounds too much like him sweetening up a meeting engagement between 2 groups of aircraft for Hollywood. (”Wow, this would make for a great scene for my movie in Technicolor!”)
As 42’ turned into 43’-44’ the Japanese were more and more on the short end of the stick on those as American pilots and aircraft improved and Japanese quality plummeted.
There were incidents of that with the Luftwaffe, but they’re in Germany, not thousands of miles from home in the South Pacific