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While attacks by Japanese fighters were occasional, they did happen. In one incident, Captain Wally Gayda opened a forward cabin window and aimed a Browning automatic rifle through it. He managed to shoot down one of his attackers. As far as is known, this is the only instance of an enemy aircraft kill by a C-46 Commando!