Dr. Kohn to re-examine the report?
SYMA then started exchanging correspondence with Dr. Richard Kohn, Chief, OAFH, and Cargill Hall. Eugene Monihan and George Chandler made a trip to Washington and met with Dr. Kohn and Cargill Hall. They were assured verbally and in Dr. Kohn’s letter of 7 December 1988 and his letter of 17 January 1989 that if we brought back credible new evidence he would convene a new Victory Credit Board of Review. In his letter of 22 March 1989, he mentioned that in late 1987, after Cargill Hall received an invitation to chair the Survivor’s Panel at the Yamamoto Retrospective, and when he discerned that the victory credit issue remained one of keen interest, he endeavored to gather all current information - - including pictures of the aircraft wreckage. In early 1988, he showed pictures of the aircraft wreckage to an aeronautical engineer who advised that the wing that fell 150 feet behind the aircraft was the outer left wing, damaged on the leading edge on impact with the trees, showing its spars bent backwards. (Had the wing separated in flight, the spars would have been bent upwards.) The right wing outer panel lay where that wing burned with the wreckage; apparently it did not detach in flight. Why did this information not cause Dr. Kohn to re-examine the report of the Victory Credit Board of Review?
Letter of 7 December 1988
Letter of 17 January 1989
Letter of 22 March 1989
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