Whenever I remember I'll add these to the first post, and everything that happens to them.
yamo:
Pilot Officer, 2nd class, Saburo Kanda, a fresh graduate from the Navy Fighter School in Yokohama, now assigned to CVE Hosho's fighter wing, the Hosho-1. The unit has Navy Carrier Fighter type 0 Mitsubishi model 21 fighters, alias A6M2 "Rei-Sentoki" Zeroes. With 16 pilots and 10 aircraft there isnt a plane for everyone, but as Hosho's first mission is going to be invasion support in the South China Sea where it is easily in range of daily replacement aircraft(but not pilots), the imbalance will help to keep the fatigue low without wasting pilots. Hosho will set sail in a few days, but being a slow escort carrier, a converted merchantman actually, it will take over a week to cruise there. Its operational home port will probably be either Saigon or Palembang, and it will first be escorted by 2 destroyers, and probably gets Ryujo's current escort when it will retire to repairs in Hong Kong, Shanghai or Pescadore island in Formosa.
Zrk2:
battleship Kongo is refitting in Hong Kong. If you can think of a Japanese name, you can be the ships new fire controller or a turret/battery commander, or claim Captain Koyanagi. Kongo is an old ship, built in 1915 originally as a battlecruiser, but since those times it has been fitted with extra armor and rebuilt almost completely. Despite being heavier than the original ship, Kongo class, its sister ships being Haruna, Kirishima and Hiei, is the fastest battleship class in the Pacific, making it in many ways more useful than the heavier Fuso and Nagato classes, that can only do 25 knots vs. Kongo's 30 knots. Once Kongo's refit is done, it will set sail with a heavy escort, and be stationed at Bedelaob in the Palau islands.
thobal:
I have around 200 D3A1s in active squadrons, 6 squadrons in Kido Butai, now off Guam and steaming South, 3 in Japan(1 training, 2 anti-submarine/naval search) and the 10th in Batan island, between Philippines and Formosa, doing ASW search to protect the naval traffic. Up to you if you want action in 4-5 days or a more peaceful command... You might get transferred later, though.
Burnt Pies:
Corporal M. Kamihira of the Kanoya Ku K-1 stationed at Truk atoll. The unit flies 27 x G4M1 long range torpedo bombers, and is currently tasked with naval search. They will support the landings at Rabaul in New Britain within a week. With some luck they will be in strike range of the American CV fleet. Scroll up for the "Battle of Bismarcks" operational plans, top right is Truk. Kamihira himself has now flown just a single mission. The unit has lost a couple of aircraft in accidents, one pilot missing in action and another killed in landing.
Mithras:
there are no bad pilots in the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force! But heres a freshly arrived Zero pilot: Warrant Officer Kudo, O, of 3rd Ku S-1 Det B, based at Tarakan. Scroll up, Tarakan is the place I just conquered and moved a Zero force in. Today, they just shot down a Dutch B-239, a W331(or something) bomber, damaged another and turned the air raid back where they came from. The unit has now 5 kills and 2 losses, both operational ones, with one pilot killed. No losses to enemy activity. Kudo himself arrived just today, the unit will most likely see a lot of action in the following days so its never bad to have too many pilots. It has now 10 pilots and 9 Zeroes.
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Topic: War in the Pacific: AE PBEM - July 1st 1942 (Read 93376 times)