They used to sell a brand of luggage called Amelia Earhart.
Really?? Like, you put it on a plane, and then it is never seen again??
Interesting.
TIGHAR has done some fascinating research into the disappearance of AE and their website is worth some time if you are so inclined...I’m convinced based on all of their evidence and research that she died as a castaway on Nikumaroro...
http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/AEdescr.html
This poor lady... She died in a plane crash. Plain, simple facts are difficult for some people to grasp. Now if we could only find that Malaysian Airlines flight.... That would be interesting.
That’s pretty weak evidence. Basically they found a skeleton with arms a bit longer then average. How many of them are around?
Like Robinson Caruso - it’s primitive as can be...
“Mystery finally solved?”
Yes, they actually solve the Amelia Earhart mystery at least once every year.
If this was true it shouldn’t be to hard to find her airplane.
We’ll see.
Below is my post to a couple of FR comrades from less than a month ago. This mystery was solved at the highest level of government over 50 years ago but kept under wraps. I would be shocked if she isn’t buried in an unmarked grave at Arlington. The book, “In Search of Amelia Earhart” was done in a journalist fashion not seen for several recent decades.
Based upon your post I ordered Fred Groener’s book. Just finished it. Wow! My opinion of Amelia has sure changed. What a phenomenal lady and a true American hero. Clearly she was spying for the U.S. Navy when she crash landed in the Marshall Islands and the two of them were taken prisoner by the Japanese. They, and the airplane, were taken to Saipan where they were held, and interrogated for an extended period of time. They both died there either from torture or physical neglect. The senior US leadership was so embarrassed about the way this went down that numerous agencies covered it up including U.S. Navy, Dept of Interior, State Department and the President of the United States. One of the USMC officers (Wallace T. Greene) on Saipan led a detail that dug up an area outside a grave yard that had two skulls and bone parts. He went on to be Commandant of USMC and when interviewed couldn’t remember a thing about this happening.
Bttt
During World War II, US Coast Guard LORAN Unit 92, a radio navigation station built in the summer and fall of 1944, and operational from mid-November 1944 until mid-May 1945, was located on Gardner Island’s southeast end. Dozens of U.S. Coast Guard personnel were involved in its construction and operation, but were mostly forbidden from leaving the small base or having contact with the Gilbertese colonists then on the island, and found no artifacts known to relate to Earhart
Not buying it
She was heard on radio trying to find a place to land at sea
It’s a damn big ocean
A horrible death but it beat ending up with the Japanese.
What happened to her aircraft?