A Real Yamashita Treasure

  I know everyone is thinking what is Seldom doing posting in the Yamashita Treasure thread, he does not believe in treasure in the Philippines. I have never said I didn't believe I only said that no treasure would be find listening to ghost or seeing a sign in every rock. I have always said with a little research treasure can be found there.
Here is a lead I came across and have done a little research on, someone on site could do a little more research and make a recovery in a few weeks.
Sorry no maps, no signs, no ghost, just hard information.

When the Imperial Japanese forces were invading the Philippines at the outset of WW II all the paper money on Corregidor Island had to be destroyed to keep it out of enemy hands. Stacks and stacks of American money was being burned and one  young soldier on the burning detail filled a 50cal ammo box with 100 dollar bill's and buried it in a tunnel wall close to the mouth. The soldier was captured and spend the remainder of the war as a POW. After the war he returned home got married and raised a family. In the 1970's he returned to recovered his loot, only to find that the Japanese had reinforced the tunnel walls with concrete. After several weeks of negotiations with the government he returned home without his treasure, estimated at $500,000.00.
Is it still there?
With a little research it should be easy to pin point the site that the burning took place a little work with a good detector might put you on a 50cal ammo box full of 100 dollar bills.   

Seldom


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Hello...
just asking ,we have in our position a wwII dollar bill,with a name "spargo us dollar" 300,500.
is this bill has a value now a days?if it is how and where we can sell it?thanks

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"Why would US personnel be involved with burning the Philippine treasury, or any other currency owned by others? Are we to assume the Filipino's were so helpless their personnel could not accomplish the task? ".........Gee, I don't know, could the  fact that the United States did not recognize Philippine Independence until 1946 possibly have something to do with that?  Up until that time was legally a possession of  the United States having been ceded to the US by Spain as part of the 1898 Treaty of Paris.   There was some talk prior to the Japanese invasion surrounding a"schedule" for independence, but it never really got beyond that.

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i was just wondering if thought about using google earth to have a closer look

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		Quote:			Posted by BitburgAggie_7377
	"Why would US personnel be involved with burning the Philippine treasury, or any other currency owned by others? Are we to assume the Filipino's were so helpless their personnel could not accomplish the task? ".........Gee, I don't know, could the  fact that the United States did not recognize Philippine Independence until 1946 possibly have something to do with that?  Up until that time was legally a possession of  the United States having been ceded to the US by Spain as part of the 1898 Treaty of Paris.   There was some talk prior to the Japanese invasion surrounding a"schedule" for independence, but it never really got beyond that. BA

Howdy BA...your questions don't really answer my questions or comments. Are you being serious?

Thanks

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	It was not the Philippine treasury it was U S currency which was used in the Philippines at the time. I am finished with this thread and most know why.

Sorry you do not want to no longer participate in the thread you created. The huge amount of currency had to have come from somewhere. Why US servicemen were involved peeked my curiosity. Didn't mean to strike a nerve.

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