Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An kafa rukunin a ranar 1 ga Afrilu 1942 a Kisarazu, Japan, kuma an fara sanye shi da mayakan Mitsubishi A6M Zero guda shida, a karkashin jagorancin Laftanar Hideki Shingō. Kungiyar ta yi wani yunƙurin katsewa ba tare da nasara ba a lokacin Doolittle Raid a ranar 18 ga Afrilu. A ranar 30 ga Mayu, ƙarfin mayakan ƙungiyar ya karu zuwa Zeros 33 kuma an nada Laftanar Tadashi Kaneko a matsayin kwamandanta ("Hikōtaichō"). An yi niyya ne don zama sansanin soja na tsibirin Midway bayan da za a kama shi a cikin Operation MI mai zuwa a watan Yuni. An shiga jirgin sama shida a kan mai ɗaukar "Akagi", tara "Kaga", uku a kan "Hiryū" da "Sōryū", yayin da 12 ke kan "Jun'yō". Wasu daga cikin mayaƙan sun shiga cikin yakin Midway karkashin Lieutenant Kaneko, da kuma Attack on Dutch Harbor
karkashin Laftanar Zenjirō Miyano.