Thread:AdmyralDoc/@comment-6955604-20140428011642

Hello Doc; You know your Japanese Pirate fleet？ I like it. I may want to join if you are going to make it into a fleet. Anyway, if you do create it, I suggest we use this system for the aircraft. During WWII, the Americans had trouble keeping track of all the Japanese aircraft names, factory numbers and model names. Plus they did not want to say the whole name if one was spotted. So Frank T. McCoy, a U.S. Intelligence employee, came up with this system of code naming Japanese aircraft by using people's names, Tree names, and Bird names. Generally, Western men's names were given to fighter aircraft, women's names to bombers, transports, and reconnaissance aircraft, bird names to gliders, and tree names to trainer aircraft. So, if you are going to make the Pirate fleet, I will help employ this system if I join. I know quite a lot about WWII Japanese aircraft BTW.

Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_Allied_names_for_Japanese_aircraft 