Flying Tigers: order of battle tables, Burma 1941-1942

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Japanese
deployment 23 December 1941 From the 1970 Japan Defense Agency history of the air war in Southeast Asia, Nanpo shinko rikugun koku sakusen, annotated by Kameta Junichi and Jeffrey Stickley.

The Christmas campaign (25 December 1941)

Rangoon city attack

Allied defense (7 fighters)

AVG 3rd Squadron (Flt Ldr George McMillan): 7 Curtiss Tomahawks

Japanese formations (63 bombers, 25 fighters)

First wave:
12th Sentai (Maj Oura Yoshikuma): 20 Mitsubishi Ki-21-II Sallys
64th Sentai: 15 Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusas

Second wave:
12th Sentai (Col Kitajima Kumao): 7 Mitsubishi Ki-21-II Sallys
64th Sentai (Maj Kato Tatao): 10 Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusas

Third wave:
60th Sentai (Col Ogawa Kojiro): 36 Mitsubishi Ki-21-II Sallys

Mingaladon airport attack

Allied defense (20 fighters)

AVG 3rd Squadron (Flt Ldr Parker Dupouy): 6 Curtiss Tomahawks
RAF 67 Squadron A Flight (Flt Lt Colin Pinckney): 8 Brewster Buffaloes
RAF 67 Squadron B Flight (Flt Lt Jack Brandt): 6 Brewster Buffaloes

Japanese formations (35 bombers, 32 fighters)

First wave:
62nd Sentai (Lt Col Onishi Hiroshi): 8 Mitsubishi Ki-21-I Sallys

Second wave:
31st Sentai (Lt Col Hayashi Junji): 27 Mitsubishi Ki-30 Anns
77th Sentai (Maj Yoshioka Hiroshi): 32 Nakajima Ki-27 Nates

South Burma campaign (3 February 1942)

RAF 221 Group

Air Vice Marshal Donald Stevenson, commanding
51 aircraft in service

AVG 1st Squadron (Sq Ldr Robert Sandell): 12 Curtiss Tomahawks

AVG 2nd Squadron (Sq Ldr John Newkirk): 8 Curtiss Tomahawks

IAF 1 Squadron (Wing Cmdr Karun Majumdar): 6 Westland Lysanders

RAF 17 Squadron (Sq Ldr Cedric Stone): 7 Hawker Hurricanes

RAF 67 Squadron (Sq Ldr Robert Milward): 4 Brewster Buffaloes

RAF 113 Squadron (Wing Cmdr R. N. Stidolph): 10 Bristol Blenheims

RAF 135 Squadron (Sq Ldr Frank Carey): 4 Hawker Hurricanes

JAAF 5th Hikoshidan

Lt Gen Obata Eiryo, commanding
112 aircraft in service

8th Sentai (Maj Honda Mitsuo): 10 Kawasaki Ki-48 Lilys,
10 Mitsubishi Ki-30 Anns

14th Sentai (Col Hironaka Magoroku): 12 Mitsubishi Ki-21 Sallys

31st Sentai (Lt Col Hayashi Junji): 22 Mitsubishi Ki-30 Anns

50th Sentai (Maj Makino Yasuoo): 20 Nakajima Ki-27 Nates

62nd Sentai (Lt Col Onishi Hiroshi): 8 Mitsubishi Ki-21 Sallys

77th Sentai (Maj Yoshioka Hiroshi): 23 Nakajima Ki-27 Nates

70th Ind. Chutai (Capt Ohira Tateo): 7 reconnaissance aircraft

Japanese
deployment 18 February 1942

Central Burma campaign (20 March 1942)

RAF Burwing

Grp Capt Seton Broughall, commanding
38 aircraft in service

AVG 3rd Squadron (Sq Ldr Arvid Olson): 8 Curtiss Tomahawks

RAF 17 Squadron (Sq Ldr Cedric Stone): 15 Hawker Hurricanes

RAF 28 Squadron (Sq Ldr P. N. Jennings): 6 Westland Lysanders

RAF 45 Squadron (Wing Cmdr C. B. B. Wallis): 9 Bristol Blenheims

JAAF 5th Hikoshidan

Lt Gen Obata Eiryo, commanding
223 aircraft in service

1st Sentai (Maj Takeda Kinshiro): 15 Nakajima Ki-27 Nates

8th Sentai (Lt Col Honda Mitsuo): 22 Kawasaki Ki-48 Lilys,
6 Mitsubishi Ki-30 Anns

11th Sentai (Maj Okabe Tadashi): 14 Nakajima Ki-27 Nates

12th Sentai (Col Kitajima Kumao): 35 Mitsubishi Ki-21 Sallys

31st Sentai (Lt Col Hayashi Junji): 16 Mitsubishi Ki-30 Anns

50th Sentai (Maj Ishikawa Tadashi): 13 Nakajima Ki-27 Nates

64th Sentai (Lt Col Kato Tateo): 18 Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusas

77th Sentai (Lt Col Yoshioka Hiroshi): 15 Nakajima Ki-27 Nates

98th Sentai (Lt Col Osaka Junji): 37 Mitsubishi Ki-21 Sallys

Other units: 6 Nakajima Ki-44 Shokis; 3 Nakajima Ki-27 Nates;
17 Mitsubishi Ki-15 and Ki-46 reconnaissance planes;
6 Mitsubishi Ki-21 Sallys used as transports.

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