Of all of the theories proposed, these were the least credible.
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.
Yeah, we know the area where her plane was lost and it wasn’t anywhere near Japan.
bttt - thanks for posting.
Of all of the theories proposed, these were the least credible.
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) - piloted a Lockheed Electra and drove a Cord convertible. That right there is a great American story. She will never go out of style.
The sound quality makes this almost useless, to my ears at least.
I saw that one.
The Japanese transported it to Saipan from another island. They saw it in a hanger.
Turning up the volume just makes the roar painful.
We have what we have. People need to save these stories of the Greatest Generation.
A soldier who complains that the US was intentionally killing civilians in WW II, maybe I’ll listen. A soldier who beginbs his description of the end of the war in the Pacific by saying we dropped nuclear bombs on the Japs “without warning” — that’s when I stopped listening.
Stories like this start when some wisecracking marine assaulting an airfield tells his buddy they will probably find Amelia Earhart’s plane here. The joke spreads through the platoon. The next adjoining company hears it and passed it on. By the time it gets to the other side of the island, the story is that some Marines over in the other battalion found Amelia’s plane when they assaulted the airfield. By the time it gets to Navy officers on ships, the Japanese found her camera, and the executor and buried her on the island. And the government is covering it up so we don’t kill everyone in Japan when we land there.
I realize Rumble is all the rage with conservatives, but quite frankly the service sucks. Perhaps it will get better, but for now the service is too sub-par to actually be useful.
And some how that photo got in a book published years before her flight.
Obviously she was time traveling.
Ever hear of Louise Thaden? She was a contemporary of Earhart’s, an aviatrix, and was every bit as famous.
Everyone’s heard of Earhart, simply because she got lost.
The airport in Bentonville, AR is named for her, along with a private school. Her childhood home has been restored, and is located on the school grounds.
Amelia was invited to meet with Admiral P.V. Weems to learn about his new celestial navigation system. Her husband ( and manager) declined because her schedule was too busy.
Amelia’s navigator Fred Noonan did receive some training from Weems, but not enough. Neither Earhardt nor Noonan knew morse code or were competent in celestial navigation.
“[Fred] Noonan is the only one of Commander Weems’ students who has ever been lost at sea.” —“Baltimore Sun,” 1937
https://timeandnavigation.si.edu/navigating-air/early-air-navigators/amelia-earhart
You have no idea what you are talking about. 4 years in the Pacific gives him more right than you to say whatever he wants about the war. The Amelia Earhart story was interesting though and verified from two angles.
I read that they’d stripped-out a lot of hardware/ instruments to lighten the plane, to carry more fuel. I wonder if they took out the fuel gauge?
Anyone know?
Thanks bray. There was a version of this on the original "Unsolved Mysteries".
She was a mediocre pilot, and married to a sugar daddy.
Regarding Fred's navigation, BS.
Because in some earlier long-distance flight her radio of the time caused a brownout, on this last flight she'd broadcast, then shut off the radio, making triangulating her position impossible.
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