I watched the documentary. The photo was the one thing which I thought was interesting. Without it the whole story falls apart.
I have seen other investigations about her disappearance and several facts clash with what they said last night. One thing was they claimed she had plenty of fuel to have reached the Marshall Islands but in fact she was fighting unexpected strong head winds the whole way and just barely was going to make it to Howland.
Also the Itasca radio operators said her signal got really strong before it ended, indicating that they were really close to where they were supposed to be.
The two photo’s are clearly the same, no doubts about that.
but, could the Japanese credits be incorrect? Could the Japanese source be citing the wrong date for when the photo was taken?