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
Jaluit was a major Japanese seaplane base.
It was raided several times by the US Navy.
It was even the used for a 2nd Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor using H8K Emily flying boats in early 42’.
All kinds of reasons for a little scrap of aluminum to still be in the open and for there to be remnants of a wheeled dolly on an island close by.
Wasn't a statement made in the documentary that no American aircraft crashed within 5 miles of supposed crash site on Mili Atoll? Given storm surges associated with Pacific typhoons, possible tsunami activity, and drifting due to normal current activity, wouldn't it be possible (although perhaps improbable) that the part could have come from another plane? Was rolled metal a uniquely American process or could the part have come from another country's plane (probably Japan)?
The other major competing theory of a crash on Gardner Island and death as castaways uses the window panel as its definitive proof. Like a fingerprint, we're told. Sounds good until you hear descriptions that it 'mostly matches' the panel on Earhart's plane. I'm skeptical of some of their claims, knowing that they are actively raising money for another expedition to Gardner Island. The wreckage of the SS Norwich City can account for some of the recovered debris and the fact that the island was once inhabited, then abandoned, then home to shipwreck survivors for awhile could account for campfire remnants and discarded items.