WWII Veteran shares about demise of Amelia Earhart

Rumble ^ | 6/3/23 | bray

[bray]

Interesting theory of what happened to Amelia Earhart from the GIs who found her plane.

[JOHN ADAMS]

You are absolutely right - he has the right to say whatever he wants, and I have not ever been exposed to anything like what he was exposed to. I didn’t mean for a moment to suggest he should not have spoken.

And I certainly didn’t mean to criticize anything he said about Earhart, a topic on which I know nothing.

I was speaking only what I understood to be the vaguely negative comment about our dropping the bomb on Japan. While he’s certainly entitled to have and to express his view on that even if it’s negative, I don’t have to agree with him on that subject. I suspect most of the people on this board would agree that dropping those bombs was a good thing, even for the Japanese, who would have lost many more people if the US had had to invade mainland Japan to end the war.

[markman46]

no her navigator got lost over the pacific, besides they were looking for a very small speck of an island to refuel on.

[threefinger]

This is how Earhart's first attempt to fly around the world ended:

She ground-looped it when taking off to begin the second leg of the trip and did substantial damage to the airframe. Her rich hubby paid to have it ready for the second attempt three months later.

I'm not sure if that means he loved her madly and was willing indulge her fantasy, or if that means he figured her killing herself in a plane crash was cheaper than a divorce.

Her widower, publisher multi-millionaire George Putnam, was the author of the Earhart legend. Just like Libby invented the Custer legend and Jackie invented Camelot. All three are today remembered as larger-than-life primarily because of an image rehabilitation campaign orchestrated by the spouse who survived them.

The incredible thing to me about this crash is Fred Noonan was on board, acting as her co-pilot, yet he still went along on the second attempt. Most of the available information says the stories about Fred being a lush were fabricated, but after having a ring-side seat for the first crash, I can't see any sane man going along on the second attempt without getting lubricated first.