2nd Request to Air Force Secretary

SYMA contends that a careful, independent, review will determine:

OAFH intentionally misled the Secretary of the Air Force.

Forces within the Air Force conducted an intentional effort to deny Rex Barber his due credit or said differently to reward Lanphier for something that he did not do.

Rex Barber should be granted 100% credit for the shooting down of the Betty bomber carrying Admiral Yamamoto.

In line with its desire to obtain a careful independent review, SYMA submitted a request for such a review to the Secretary of the Air Force in 2001. The Secretary relied upon the same bureaucracy to prepare his answer. He went on to accept Secretary Rice’s position, which General McPeak said was based upon expediency, not the facts in the case.