Thanks vadr for making sure we were covered! 
Yes it went quite well.  Rock was busy setting things up when I showed up about 20 till.  I was able to set up the fields, while he did the rest. 
Had a good time flying for the IJN.  Thanks Red and Btown for stepping up as C.O.'s.  I was too busy helping rock and ended up tail end Charlie trying to catch the main IJN formation.  After about 10 minutes I realized I had two extra (wing tanks) of fuel.  Once I dropped those I caught them pretty quick.  Then big... someone did a 180 and hooked up as my wing.  
  We spotted the enemy at 20k and a long dog fight began which soon seperated in to several smaller engagements.  I managed to down a F4U but was soon jumped by two others. My engine was shot out and I tried to ditch. The devil round eyes had no mercey and shot me out of the sky 100' up.   

I could not stay for the second go around. Hope that went as well. 
<S> Rock for a fun event!