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« Reply #30 on: April 06, 2011, 09:17:35 pm »
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One way you could find out who might have gone on a treasure hunt during WWII would be to see how many new investments
Businesses croped up after WWII and then trace the legitamacy of the funds used to start those companies. And new found wealthy
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« Reply #31 on: April 06, 2011, 09:33:18 pm »
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 Another thing about these smaller caches is that they are not likely to be down at 30 ft!!
 Anything over 6-8 ft and its likely to be a large cache. Good point again seldom with the poking around remark.  Cool

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« Reply #32 on: April 06, 2011, 09:43:17 pm »
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I have always had trouble with the 30/40 ft thing. If it was a cache for the war effort are a personal cache  the hider would want to get at it sooner are later in fact it it was for the war effort why bury it at all the Japaneses were losing and they knew it why not spend it on ammo? 

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« Reply #33 on: April 06, 2011, 09:43:40 pm »
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What got me thing about it that way was our friends in the Philippines are always talking about Japaneses nosing around their property. Maybe the Japaneses are looking for personal cache left by a grandfather or other family member.    


 I think the Japanese would be more loyal to their country and cause than say the Germans,

You maybe so right about that, but war and greed do strange things to the human mine.


Well I've gone back to my childhood homes just to think and remember, But thats not because i burried treasure there.                Could these old soldiers and the children of soldiers want to go back and remember or go and see the places their
fathers talked about. I'm Just compareing it to what I've done.

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« Reply #34 on: April 06, 2011, 09:59:54 pm »
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Hello All

Here is an interesting newspaper report from 1945 where General MacArthur comments about organized looting of the personal possessions of the people of the Philippines during Japanese occupation.

It is interesting to note the assumption that most of it had already been sent back to Japan.

In a Newspaper article dated June 1944 States that the Japanese had looted the Philippines so much the country ceased to function. Car, refrigerators even paper from company plans and documents was systematically looted. Clearly by those indications that there was a culture in the Japanese officer corps that turned a blind eye to looting or even participated themselves.

So the idea of personal caches is not too far stretch of the imagination especially when the Japanese army in the Philippine realized the war was lost.

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« Reply #35 on: April 06, 2011, 10:00:32 pm »
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  AU, you have a good point also. They may just want to se where their Family was in the war times.
  The 30-40 ft could be true, I think when it came to the end game and they knew the game was over they could have hid the treasures deep. Not wanting the enemy to get there hands on it and save it for a later date. This type of deep hide was probably the big time loots, that was of the high ups like Yamashita.
 

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« Reply #36 on: April 06, 2011, 10:16:39 pm »
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Up in north QLD and up in the Islands of Australia I know of US Army Jeeps were box up and buried there coz some of the guys
up there thought they would come back and get them after the war, But i never heard of anyone going back and diggin them up.
But diggin a hole that big would take a few days, So I think that they would not want to attract attention to the fact that they
were burying treasure coz once it was in there it would take a good day or so to fill it back in,
It took me 8hrs to move 11.78 tons of soil on my own, Due to a careing boss i once had. From a 12 yd tip truck.

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« Reply #37 on: April 06, 2011, 10:31:12 pm »
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Hello All

Perhaps we should look at a newspaper story dated 26th May 1952.

The newspaper claims 110 Tons of Gold, 150000 carats of Diamonds and 20000 tons of Silver lie in the Bank of Japan. The tribunal  could not accounted where this treasure came from. And because of the destruction of documentation it was almost imposable for victims of the looting to claim back missing fortunes.

It was from this fortune Japan rose from the ashes of defeat and became a prosperous nation in the latter half of the 20th century if not a totally changed nation from the WW2 era.

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« Reply #38 on: April 06, 2011, 10:41:55 pm »
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Well now you know how they kick started the economy after the war. not bad seeing how it was flattend

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« Reply #39 on: April 06, 2011, 11:02:42 pm »
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Hello AU

There was only one loser from WW2 and that was the British empire. What did they get for compensation for war losses.

Old worn out obsolete factory equipment. The Germans and Japanese built new factories with new equipment that out preformed the old technology taken from them.

Britain  was still paying off war debts almost to the end of the 20th century. Long after Germany and Japan had paid out their last compensation payout.

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