The following link is to a site that contains USN day by day communiques covering the war from December 1941 to May 1945. May be useful in structuring missions for Rising Sun. Certainly makes for fascinating reading.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/comms/index.htmlThere's also a site for the USAAF, set out along the same lines.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/history/marshall/military/airforce/wwii_chronology/