[Milsurplus] Yamamoto Mission: P-38 Radio Navigation

[Carole White-Connor]

What a fascinating mission that was:

1. The irony is that Yamamoto was one of the Japanese leaders who opposed war
with the United States. He had studied in the United States, respected our
culture and understood our industrial might.

2. By going after Yamamoto as we did, we jeopardized the fact that we had
cracked the Japanese naval code. Would the last couple years of the war been
different if the Japanese had drawn the obvious inference? Thankfully, they
did not.

3. Two of the pilots (Barber and Lamphier) spent the rest of their lives in a
dispute over which one had actually gotten Yamamoto. The bright side of this
dispute is that it left us with a tremendous testimonial record of the
mission.

Now, to bring this back to topic: what receivers did the Navy use for its
radio interception work?

                                            Joe Connor