Okay, lets see. If at any time you want to know where your character is and hows he doing, feel free to ask. I'll add these in the end of the first post later...
Write me up as one of the newly trained pilots! I'll be posted where the Emperor needs me the most!
It'd be interesting to follow one pilot in the middle of this massive conflict 
If it's too much work, feel free to drop this at any time!
I have a gut feeling that we'll be seeing lots of air action in Burma any day now. Theres no way the Allies will let Magwe's oil fields just be where they are and pump the Japanese 3,000 tons of oil a day that then gets right away turned into 2,700 tons of fuel in the refineries at Magwe and Rangoon. Most of the front line squadrons are already filled with pilots, but there are some that could use reserve pilots.
WO Takanaka, P. His skills are:
EXP 50, AIR 70, DEFN 69 (there are other skills but they are not used by fighter pilots unless kamikazing, strafing etc but I'm not intending to use my fighters in those roles just yet...). EXP is general "flying skill" - the higher it is the less likely he is to crash, the more likely he is to survive home (including when hes flying a damaged plane, in poor weather, long range etc.), AIR and DEF are 2 skills used in air combat. AIR is only used by fighters, where DEF is also used by bombers and strike aircraft for dodging AAA fire and fighters AFTER the bombing run (afaik). Hes fresh from reserve flight officer school (means 3 years of service in Japan....) and has 2 months of advanced training in an operational training unit.
Takanaka will arrive in 3 days to his unit, the 59th Sentai at Meiktila, flying Ki-43-Ic. 59th's nominal strength is 30 planes and pilots, but now has 30+4 planes and 38 pilots. This base is just East from Magwe, and the unit's mission is to fly LRCAP over Magwe as well as over its own base at Meiktila. Magwe itself has the 77th Sentai and some reconnaissance units.
I'll take a fighter pilot as well. Preferably Navy, so I can see the world!
I'm afraid all the CV units are full(or as full as they are plausible to keep) but the Navy has about 1/3 of its fighter units flying from land bases.
Chitose Ku S-1 was divided today into 3 size 12 squadrons - 2 of them will stay at Rabaul while the 3rd, S-1/C, transferred to Tulagi.
PO1 Abe, K. He'll arrive at Tulagi in 4 days. Skills are EXP 73(a pre-war career officer...), AIR 70, DEFN 75. Chitose Ku S-1/C has 12 A6M2 Zeros and 16 pilots. It is based at Tulagi, its current task is to fly CAP above Tulagi, Florida and Guadalcanal and offer protection to the in and outgoing troop transports bring supplies and troops to the islands. It is also ordered to co-operate with Rabaul's G4M1 unit, so that should the torpedo bombers sortie to a nearby target, the S-1/C will (try to) meet and escort the bombers. Just across the strait to the South on Guadalcanal island, the Army 47th Independent Fighter Chutai flying 15 x Ki-43-Ic is based at Lunga airbase with the same mission.
Navy Torpedo Bomber pilot for me, preferably one that's likely to get a shot at some of the larger enemy ships...
The above mentioned G4M1 unit at Rabaul, Kanoya Ku K-1 needs some pilots... The unit is stationed at Rabaul, its mission being flying naval search to max range and attacking any enemy surface units sighted(Tulagi and Port Moresby have more patrol & search units that can provide the Kanoya Ku K-1 with target info). Currently its secondary mission is bombing cut-off enemy troops at Lae.
PO2 Nishiura, P. Arrives at Rabaul in 4 days. Skills (of him an his aircrew) are EXP 55, NavB 58, NavT 62, NavS 66, ASW 34, GrdB 57, DEFN 55. Not so great in any one skill but at least he is versatile.
I would love to take one of the B1 subs (I18-30), which ever you use to target reinforcement shipping.
I-27 was completed a week ago and is now being transferred from Port Arthur to Palembang, currently off the coast of Luzon(Philippines). It is commanded by a above mediocre but poorly motivated Commander Yoshimura, Iwao. On their first cruise, I-27's crew is also far from crack, but not bad (EXP 55/53). I-27 also carries an E14Y fold-wing search floatplane with her. Once I-27 is refueled and refit at Palembang(a second floatplane pilot will be taken aboard as well as a second floatplane, unassembled, in the boat's external storages) it will most likely be ordered to patrol somewhere W or NW of Perth, Australia to monitor and attack any Allied traffic in the area.
Oh, yes, please put me as a Naval aviator, not Army! I want to escort Burnt Pies!
Also, Burnt Pies, check PM 
You get what you ask... This will probably show you how small the Japanese, especially Navy's reserves are:
PO1 Minobe, J. Skills are EXP 53, AIR 55, DEFN 56. Not a good fighter pilot at all, but his EXP is so high that I had to kick him out the operational training school some time ago because he was taking a slot from a low-exp pilot who would have (and did) learn the actual skills like 5 times quicker.
Same group as Timferius, but different squadron: Chitose Ku S-1/B at Rabaul(where the G4M1 unit Kanoya Ku K-1 is), operating A6M2. He will arrive at the unit in 4 days. Unit flies CAP above Rabaul, and as secondary role is tasked to escort the G4M1 bombers unless they fly outside of Zero's range; this unit is currently not using drop tanks. This is a very important unit as Rabaul's harbor has the Tanaka Squadron (4 heavy cruisers and 8 destroyers), Battleship Mutsu and her escorts as well as 4 light cruisers and over 40 other ships. The Chitose Ku S-1/B has perhaps the 2nd known Japanese pilot of all time, legendary PO1 Nishizawa, Hiroyoshi. His current skills are EXP 85, AIR, 74 and DEFN 84. The whole Chitose Ku S-1 group is yet to see any action to none of the pilots in the 3 sub squadrons have any kills.
I think I can take one more request. I'll see the others later today, now to take the turn.
Screenshots coming later.
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