In Search of Yamashita's Gold

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In Search Of Yamashita's Gold is the seventh mission in Medal of Honor: Rising Sun.

Objectives[]

Primary[]

Locate Flying Tiger's Crash Site
Find Tanaka
Discover Yamashita's Gold
Exit Temple Before Fourth Gun Explodes
Rescue Pilot

Secondary[]

Destroy Japanese Radio Equipment
Destroy Officers' Sake Supply (5)

Weapons[]

Bonuses[]

Cheat - Invisible Soldiers (Entrenching Tool required)[]

In the jungle, when you reach the crashed plane, go through the small opening next to the plane and you can find a body of dirt. Approach the dirt and press the use key to unlock the cheat. You need the Entrenching Tool to collect the cheat.

Film canister 1 - Roy Roush (Valor in History)[]

In the jungle, before the crashed plane area, there's a hill MG emplacement in a ruin. If you explore the area on that hill ruin, you can find the film canister. The film canister exact position may vary, but it should always spawn in or around the hill ruin MG emplacement.

Film canister 2 - Storyboards[]

When inside the temple you will find a garden area filled with enemies using swords. When you proceed from that area you find yourself in the temple hallways again and there's a door on your left that you can open. In that room you can find the second film canister.

Multiplayer Skin - Raj (Skeleton key required)[]

In the basement prison cells, there's a wooden door that seems to be inaccessible. After obtaining the level's Skeleton key, you can open this door and find the skin as well as ammunition and other pickups.

Tool - Entrenching Tool[]

Inside the temple, you can find a room with a statue in the middle. That statue is holding a lotus flower which you can pick up. Later when you reach the basement prison cells, you can find another room with a statue and a pillar-like object in the middle. Place the lotus flower on that pillar-like object to "Reach Enlightenment". This will open a secret door to the right. Go through that door to find the Entrenching Tool with which you can find and unlock cheats across the game.

Secret area[]

In the beginning jungle areas there's a small uphill opening with two statues that seems inaccessible. If you backtrack a little bit, you can find a body of vegetation that can be cut open with the Machete tool which will give you access to a path leading to the inaccessible opening. Nothing of value can be found here besides ammunition and some enemies.

Characters[]

Vehicles[]

Historical Info[]

Before the US officially entered WWII, a small force of volunteer pilots fought for the Chinese against the advancing Japanese invaders. This elite group became known as the Flying Tigers. Eventually, as the US entered the war, the Flying Tigers were mostly absorbed into the 14th Air Force.

Trivia[]

One of the Japanese soldiers in the jungle is armed with a Springfield rifle.
Bromley states that he will destroy all four guns around the temple along with several friends as he states in his dialog, but in the cutscene he rides with Sikorsky helicopter, which he is the only one that seen in the helicopter.
It is highly likely that the Chindit's deaths are canon, as they are not seen evacuating the temple, regardless if they survived or not.
According to the storyboard, Tanaka was meant to steal clothes from a Japanese soldier, wheel the player into the temple's banquet, draw the guards from the prison area into the cafeteria with the promise of "free sake" and sneak the player into the prison area under the guise of a new prisoner.
In reality, Yamashita's Treasure is a legend that has yet to be found. Alleged locations or explanations include the treasure was sunk in the South China Sea when U.S. airforces sunk Japanese merchant ships, was found by then-Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos during the 1960s-1970s, or it remains undiscovered to this day.

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