[ARC5] Need Help Identifying Item Found at Possible WWII Crash Site on Luzon

[Dave Merrill]

Group:

I received this inquiry from a colleague at University of Illinois at
Chicago who leads a team doing MIA recoveries under contract with the
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA):

"Do these photos look like anything to you?  It was found among what might
be WWII airplane crash wreckage in Bugias, Benguet Province, on Luzon.  The
people that found it said it was an antenna.   The planes in question are
probably fighters, a P-38 or P-51 that crashed in 1945.  I should mention
that it collapses."

My crude estimate of the length is about 45 inches.  It appears extended.

Thoughts on what this item could be and what it's from?  Pay particular
attention to both ends which do not look like anything US issue to me.

Dave/N9ZC
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