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Wrong island ping.
I’ve always been amazed at the luck our forces had in getting to Yamamoto.
They found the plane intact and a wing covered in coral. There are 2 bodies in it, so if it is them the DNA will prove it.
I'm not sure how you meant "luck" but the mission was specifically to kill Yamamoto. They had to fly 600 miles to get him (and they could easily have missed the rendezvous), but he was the target of the p-38s that day. IOW, they didn't just happen to shoot down a transport carrying Yamamoto (if that's what you meant).
Have you ever noticed his resemblance to the famous Bat Boy of tabloid news fame?
Wasn’t just luck, it was incredibly good intelligence work like when we figured out in May 1942 that Midway was the target for Yamamoto’s task force and the battle ended with four Jap carriers sunk.
Too bad in a way; Yamamoto did not hate Americans and warned hothead generals not to underestimate us, with phrases like “a rifle behind every blade of grass” if the Japs were to invade North America.
BTW. why am I saying “we” and “us” when I wasn’t even born yet? Strange.
Considering they found the partial skeletal remains of a white woman along with airplane parts on that island in 1940, I’d say there hasn’t really been any “mystery” for a long time.
Since they had prior knowledge that he was going to be there it wasn't really luck.
Now I know that the story is a fake.
The sea is all consuming. Bodies do not last because they are eaten down to the last tooth. After 74 years, there would be nothing left.
That’s what I was thinking...
Nicholas Cage and Samuel L Jackson in the film version! “Snakes on a Plane II”
The skeleton of a white woman Earhart's height. The reports by villagers of the plane on the reef and the photographs by search parties. The triangulation of radio distress signals from that area. The heel of a mid-1930s woman's blucher (the style worn by Earnhart) with a Cats-paw heel, indicating it came from the U.S. The remains of a mid-1930's era compact of the type carried by Earhart. The remains of a mid-1930's U.S. made woman's hand lotion bottle. Plexiglass in the village of the same thickness, shape, and curvature of the rear window of Earhart's Electra. Multiple small pieces of aluminum used in the native village - aluminum with rivets of the type used in Earhart's Electra. The sextant box of the type carried by Fred Noonan. The parts of the pocket knife of the same model listed on the inventory of items on Earhart's final flight.
The list goes on.
There was a white woman of European descent, carrying mid-1930's, U.S.-made items of the same type known to be carried by Earhart - some, like the pocket knife and the sextant box, the identical models carried by Earhart and Noonan.
No other possible location comes close to Nikumaroro reef as Earhart's final landing place and Nikumaroro island as the place of her death.
The skeleton of a white woman Earhart's height. The reports by villagers of the plane on the reef and the photographs by search parties. The triangulation of radio distress signals from that area. The heel of a mid-1930s woman's blucher (the style worn by Earnhart) with a Cats-paw heel, indicating it came from the U.S. The remains of a mid-1930's era compact of the type carried by Earhart. The remains of a mid-1930's U.S. made woman's hand lotion bottle. Plexiglass in the village of the same thickness, shape, and curvature of the rear window of Earhart's Electra. Multiple small pieces of aluminum used in the native village - aluminum with rivets of the type used in Earhart's Electra. The sextant box of the type carried by Fred Noonan. The parts of the pocket knife of the same model listed on the inventory of items on Earhart's final flight.
The list goes on.
There was a white woman of European descent, carrying mid-1930's, U.S.-made items of the same type known to be carried by Earhart - some, like the pocket knife and the sextant box, the identical models carried by Earhart and Noonan.
No other possible location comes close to Nikumaroro reef as Earhart's final landing place and Nikumaroro island as the place of her death.
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