Posted on 06/06/2023 7:11:17 AM PDT by bray
Interesting theory of what happened to Amelia Earhart from the GIs who found her plane.
My grandfather was in the Navy before WWII, and they were sent around the Pacific looking for her.
She was working for the Japanese all along. Had to make her “disappear” when they brought her in out of the cold.
I couldn’t make out what he was saying. Synopsis someone?
Is this possible?
If you ever feel ignored, remember that Amelia Earhart wasn’t alone in that plane...
No.
Amelia was a mediocre pilot.
In the end, she simply got lost over the Pacific and ran out of gas.
That audio is difficult to follow. Could you give a rundown?
Sounds like a guy repeating the rumors that swept across the Pacific. There were a couple of occasions during amphibious invasions when rumors swirled around that they found her airplane intact in a hanger. The people who haven’t been there, the size and scope of rumors in a war are hard to believe. Especially in the days before every soldier seems to have a cell phone.
Hmm...smells like...
“No.
Amelia was a mediocre pilot.
In the end, she simply got lost over the Pacific and ran out of gas.”
This. Much like today’s coverage of women in uniform, the media hyped her image way past her actual abilities. And nature finally caught up to illustrate the reality vice the comfortable fiction.
I cannot vouch for her skills, but Fred Noonan was the navigator. If they were lost, it was his fault.
He was on Saipan and there were stories that they found her plane on the island which was brought from another island she ditched on.
The Japanese found cameras and film she was filming the Japanese navy and they executed her and buried her on Saipan.
Found her plane? I don’t think so.
Watch the first minute, couldn’t understand a word. Sounds like he’s talking from the bottom of a deep well.
Thank you for the summation. I seem to remember a photo of a woman purported to be her, sitting on a dock with a plane in the background like hers loaded on a Japanese boat.
I don’t think so.
Yep, Occam’s Razor.
As “Captain”, making the flight that day, in those conditions, was her decision and her fault. Period.
He’s 98 yrs old who had a bad bought with covid. You might have to turn up the volume to understand him.
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