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

[Richard Knoppow]

    I don't suppose a better photo exists, would probably help. 
Since this is a recovered crash site is there any clue as to the 
type of aircraft? A P-38 and a P-51 are quite different, do they 
have no further information? Knowing the type of aircraft would 
help identify the part or even if its an aircraft part but  maybe 
they are trying to identify the type of aircraft from bits and 
pieces. How did they decide it was one of the types listed above? 
Did they find an engine? The two used different engines although 
both were V type not radials. How much other stuff have they 
found?  I am curious as to how they are going about this 
investigation.

On 4/27/2020 8:47 AM, Dave Merrill wrote:
> 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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Richard Knoppow
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