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?
That's a possibility. However, then the issue is how did the travelogue get a photo supposedly taken by an American spy and buried in top secret files only recently de-classified? The fact that the photo shows up at all destroys the History Channel hype.
The photo on the wharf supposedly showing Earhart “sittin’ on the dock of the bay” with her back to the camera, and the navigator standing up in a group of others, was from a BOOK that was published TWO YEARS before her disappearance , so it couldn’t have been taken any later than 1935. It is therefore not what they said it was, and could not be offered as any kind of evidence supporting the rest of their conspiracy story. The rest of it, however, “might” be true in parts.Some strong evidence that the plane crashed on the Atoll is established by recovered parts of a plane matching exactly the rolled (reinforced) metal on the front of the plane, in addition to some wheeled dollies which they say were used to move the crashed plane from where it landed, were discovered just sitting there on a stretch of beach continuing to rust out after all these decades. Photos exhibited in the docu show the Jap military using these wheeled dollies to move other stuff around
I think the photo clearly proves that the Earhart flight was really two years earlier than reported, and the deep state lied about it all these years. ;-)
-PJ