I fact checked this as well as I could. While no "official" record of the deed exists, a great deal of other evidence supports the claim. He himself never claimed the kill it was the Japanese that found the dead pilot with a bullet hole in his head. The image itself is not Owen just one someone picked to illustrate how.
Clearing Out Snipers in Falaise. Men of Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal follow a tank of the 27th Armoured Regiment (the Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment) through the town on 17 August.