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  • Who Has Yamashita's Gold?

    12/07/2003 5:25:04 PM PST · by Cicero · 18 replies · 1,667+ views
    The Manila Times ^ | December 7, 2003 | Rony V. Dias
    Who has Yamashita’s gold? By Rony V. Diaz A PAGE-TURNER of a book came out in September this year. It’s called Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave. The subtitle says it all. The US government got most of the gold that the Japanese Army looted in the countries it occupied. Some of the treasure trove, however, has not been found and the Seagraves believe it is in the Philippines. The story begins with General Douglas MacArthur. At war’s end he reported finding “great hoards of gold, silver, precious stones, foreign postage stamps, engraving...