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

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

Some kind of tripod, no idea for what. You can see the threaded swivels
where the three legs attached to the top (only one left) and there is what
appears to be a spike on the bottom of the remaining leg to stick into the
ground. The leg also appears to be 3 sections, adjustable. Pretty
light-duty with the pen as an indication of size.

~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 11:47 AM Dave Merrill <r390a.urr at gmail.com> 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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