Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A watan Fabrairun 1943, kungiyar ta shiga cikin rufe kwashe sojojin Japan daga Guadalcanal. A watan Afrilun 1943, ya shiga cikin Operation I-Go. A lokacin Operation SE a ranar 16 ga Yuni, rukunin 24 D3A masu jefa bama-bamai a karkashin Lieutenant Tamotsu Ema sun kai hari kan jiragen ruwa na Allied a kusa da Guadalcanal, inda sabon kwamandan kwamandan kungiyar "Hikōtaichō" Saburō Shindō ya jagoranci 16 Zeros don raka su. Sun rasa 'yan bama-bamai takwas da kuma Zero hudu a harin. A ƙarshe, an rushe rukunin mayakan kungiyar a ranar 1 ga Agusta 1943 kuma an tura wasu matukan jirgi zuwa rukunin 201 da 204 na Air. Daga nan sai kungiyar ta zama cikakkiyar rukunin bama-bamai kuma ta karɓi wasu bama-bamai na Nakajima B5N da B6N daga wasu rukunin. Ya ci gaba da sa hannu a kamfen na Solomon Islands
da kuma yakin New Guinea, ciki har da kai hari kan jiragen ruwa na Allied a lokacin saukowa a Lae, Arawe, Finschhafen da Cape Torokina.