Rising Sun 4 – Mission List

1944 First half

440208 Ki-43 Yoshio Hirose
440214 P-51B Philip cochrane
440307 Ki-51 Japanese bomb Imphal
440314 Spitfire Mk VIII Bob Cross
440323 B-25H RT Smith
440413 Hurricane IIC Nungshigum Ridge
440420 P-47D25 Robt McCarty
440515 P-38G Walter Duke
440615 F6F-3 Marines Land on Saipan
440616 B-29 Fountain Brown
440619 F6F-3 Alex Vraciu
440620 TBM Warren Omark

1944 Second Half

440705 P-47D25 Japanese retreat from Imphal
440908 B-29 Curtis Lemay Showa Steel Works Yawata
441004 Ki-44 Yukiyoshi Wakamatsu
441020 TBM Earl Archer
441020 A6M2 IJAAF attack ground troops
441021 FM2 Joe McGraw
441024 SB2C Robert Barnes
441024 F6F-5 David McCambell
441025 SB2C T H Winters
441025 A6M3 Yukio Seki
441028 P-38J Richard Bong
441124 Ki-44IIc Isamu Sakamoto
441125 D4Y3 Yoshinori Yamaguchi
441127 A6M3 Tetsu Meijo
441203 F4U-4 John Chapin
441203 Ki-61II Teruhiko Kobayashi
441207 P-47D William Dunham
441223 P-51B Edward McComas
441225 P-38L Sammy Pierce

1945 First Half

450101 Ki-61II Nagao Shirai
450103 F4U-1D Howard Finn
450106 Ki-51 Sekicho Squadron Lingayen Gulf
450112 B-29 Joseph Franklin
450113 P-51D William Shomo
450225 F4U-1D Donald Yost
450310 B-29 Ken Stetson
450321 F6F-5 James Pierce
450407 TBM Chandler Swanson
450407 P-51D Todd Moore
450408 MXY7 Sabura Dohi Thundergod
450412 G4M2 USS Stanly
440413 Ki-84 Yoshio Yoshida
450501 P-47N William Mathis
450503 P-47D25 Recapture of Rangoon
450626 B-29 Utsube River Oil Refinery

1945 Final Push

450724 N1K-2 Kaneyoshi Muto
450724 SB2C Paul Brehm
450806 B-29SP Paul Tibbetts ENOLA GAY
450810 P-51D Abner Aust
450813 P-47N Oscar Perdomo
450815 F6F Clarence Moore