John Mitchell
John Mitchell, mission leader, told George Chandler on a number of occasions that there was no formal debriefing of the pilots when they returned from the Yamamoto mission. The pilots gathered and talked a great deal about the mission but there was never a formal debriefing by intelligence officers. A full copy of the Yamamoto Mission Report is attached and it has in handwriting the words “Morrison & McGuigan”. Early in SYMA’s investigation, Rex Barber told George Chandler that the morning after the Yamamoto mission was flown, Tom Lanphier sat down beside Rex and told him that he, Tom Lanphier, had gone to the Navy intelligence office and had written the entire mission report for the intelligence officers. None of the reports, out of all of the combat reports of actions by USAAF fighters in air battles in the Solomons for a few months prior to the Yamamoto mission, has anything like the explanation in detail that is written up in the combat report about the Yamamoto mission.
Mission Report
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