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

[Mkdorney]

It looks like a piece of metal to me. 

Mark D. 
WW2RDO

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> On Apr 27, 2020, at 4:35 PM, Martyn Google <martyn.seay at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Tripod for a camera?
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On 28/04/2020, at 3:47 AM, Dave Merrill <r390a.urr at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 
>> 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."
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>> 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
>> <Luzon Object 1.jpg>
>> <Luzon Object 2.jpg>
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