[Milsurplus] Yamamoto Mission: P-38 Radio Navigation

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

It is hardly the first time, nor the last time, that competent 
military advice was ignored by the politicians who never put 
their own hides at risk! 
 
Mac - K2GKK
OKlahoma City 
 
 
 
> Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 20:48:59 -0500 
> From: carolew at bellatlantic.net 
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Yamamoto Mission: P-38 Radio Navigation 
> CC: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net 
> 
> 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