Bob woke up a couple hours later in the early evening and noticed that Billy was nowhere to be seen. Just over a year later, his parents moved the family to Orcas Island where young Bobby would attend Orcas School and eventually graduate from Orcas Island High School in 1948. Metallurgist Bob Curtis’ testimony was instrumental for this court case judgement. They brought dogs and donkeys to help carry their supplies. They would try drilling through the concrete using a star drill and a sledgehammer. Curtis was stunned and deflated. One of the fatalities was … ... Before his death, Marcos organized what is called THE UMBRELLA, a network of 54 people whose task is to manage these assets in the event of his death. Bob woke up a couple hours later in the early evening and noticed that Billy was nowhere to be seen. His team went and searched and dug but never found anything. Yamashita’s chief of staff in the Philippines, Akira Mutō, was also executed.

They brought dogs and donkeys to help carry their supplies. According to Bob Curtis, who had earlier worked with Ferdinand Marcos following his development of a technique that would alter the metallurgical finger-print of gold (obviously of immense use to Marcos, who had recovered tens of thousands of tonnes of war plunder), Singlaub and others involved with Nippon Star had an ultra right-wing agenda. Robert Herman Curtis passed away on May 3, 2017 in Bellevue, Washington, at the age of 80. Bob Curtis (footballer) (1950–2010), English football player; Bob Curtis (politician) (born 1933), American politician; See also. Bob Curtis, eigentlich Robert Leroy Curtis, (* 1. Note by Tony Wells: I had to pleasure of meeting Bob Curtis in Las Vegas several years ago. After a long morning of work, Bob and Billy decided to take an afternoon nap. During World War II, the Japanese invaded the Philippines on December 8, 1941.

The treasure much of it buried in the Philippines would fuel the rise and fall of ... Ryohei’s thugs killed 18,000 Koreans and when Ito resigned in disgust he was assassinated and his death was blamed on Koreans and used as an excuse to annex Korea. Robert Curtis Brown (born 1957), American actor; Robert Curtis Clark (born 1937), Canadian politician; This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. At that time we spend several days together whereby he told me in great details all about his past ventures of exactly what happened to him when he was in the Philippines and working with President Marcos and their 'Yamashita Treasure' exploits.

Tomoyuki Yamashita was sentenced to death and was hanged on February 23, 1946, at Los Baños Prison Camp. Photo credit: Presidential Communications Development & Strategic Planning Office.

3 The Magsaysay-Lansdale Connection. Bob was born May 31, 1930 in Marysville, Washington to Vernon and Gladys Curtis. phone and called Bob Curtis in Nevada. September 1925 in Leflore County, Mississippi; † 9.

He wanted to abort the mission, but Gary and Mike were recovering from their fright, and wanted to save face. Treasure hunters claim they've found the masses of gold reportedly hidden in the Philippines by Japanese soldiers during WWII, under the command of General Tomoyuki Yamashita. Curtis had raised funding for his treasure hunt by claiming that Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos himself had personally invited him to recover the gold based on his unique expertise. In the state of Hawaii, $22 billion (accruing to $43.5 billion with interest) was awarded to the estate of treasure-hunter Roger Roxas in 1996 for a solid gold Buddha he recovered in the Philippine Islands. Bob Curtiss - Comedian, Actor, After Dinner Speaker : On Bob's first stage appearance some 40 years ago at a talent contest the comment was 'Listen to this Comic's superb timing' and over the subsequent years this has been repeated time and time again. On March 17, 1957, a Douglas C-47 plane crashed on the side of Mount Manunggal in Cebu. Probably the highest compliment comes from his fellow comedians when he is often referred to as 'the Comedians' Comedian'.

Curtis knew it would fail, but Gary insisted, so Curtis reluctantly agreed.