Yamamoto Mission

Tom Lanphier's signature from a seminar at the National Air and Space Museum in 1985. He claimed to have scored the kill against Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in 1943.

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This is a small print of the Yamamoto mission flying just above the ocean on the hunt for Yamamoto. It is signed by 5 of the pilots (above each of their airplanes) that flew the mission.

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In 1988, the Seattle Museum of Flight had a presentation featuring Jeff Ethell and 5 of the surviving pilots of the Guadalcanal Yamamoto mission. This is one of the fliers for the show that I had all the pilots sign. I regret that I didn't get Jeff Ethell's autograph also. He was killed in the crash of a P-38 several years after this in Tillimook, OR.