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

[Dave Merrill]

I know, but it is all that was sent to me.

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 9:51 AM arc5 at ix.netcom.com <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> The photo is out of focus.  Hard to tell.
>
> ------ Original message------
> *From: *Dave Merrill
> *Date: *Mon, Apr 27, 2020 10:47 AM
> *To: *ARC-5;
> *Cc: *
> *Subject:*[ARC5] Need Help Identifying Item Found at Possible WWII Crash
> Site on Luzon
>
> 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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