Mystery of Amelia Earhart
@nanette64 (20363)
Fairfield, Texas
July 10, 2017 10:39am CST
The disappearance of Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan have been a mystery for 80 years. Several eye witnesses, photos, Morse code transmissions and parts of the plane as well as their graves have been discovered.
The plane originally landed on Endriken Island just south of the Marshall Islands; which at the time was controlled by Japan. The plane was loaded onto a barge and transferred to Saipan. A medic by the name of Bilimon Amaron (still alive) treated both of them for minor injuries.
It was Josephine Akiyama (still alive) that saw Japanese soldiers taking Earhart and Noonan to the Garafan Prison. In 1944, the US invaded Saipan and two soldiers; Billie Burkes and Everett Henson were told to dig up the graves of Earhart and Noonan; which was verified by General Alexander VanDergiff.
The sad part of it all is that the US government knew about everything and did nothing to rescue the two of them. Documents and photos were discovered in the National Archives. One thing's for sure, we now know that they didn't die at sea from a plane crash.
Airing Sunday, the film suggests that the aviator and her navigator were spotted on an atoll in the Marshall Islands.
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@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
10 Jul 17
Nothing surprises me about the US government 'knowing' things @vandana7 .
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
10 Jul 17
Yes I saw that recently Nanette that they had recovered a photo of Amelia in Japan. So sad what happened and no one did anything about it.
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@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
10 Jul 17
So much for being the greatest, female pilot in the world @TiarasOceanView .
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
10 Jul 17
@nanette64 Yes so very sad..we should know what happened to dear Amelia.
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
10 Jul 17
@nanette64 Disgusting and I bet she was so lonely.
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@topffer (42155)
• France
10 Jul 17
It makes no sense : why the Japanese would have arrested Aerhart 4 years before the war with USA ? I looked for the picture, and I post it. If you can recognize Aerhart, Noolan or the model of the plane on it, hats off ! It is just a new conspiracy theory.
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@topffer (42155)
• France
11 Jul 17
@nanette64 I do not doubt a second that the photo is 100% authentic, but to identify the back of somebody is something else, and in this case it is just impossible : all we can tell is that it is a woman showing her back with a haircut popular in the 1930s. The plane also is not identifiable. It is not enough to tell that it is Aerhart.
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@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
11 Jul 17
Earhart is the one sitting down and Noonan is at the far left holding a sign @topffer . This photo was analyzed by Doug Carter and photo recognition done by Kent Gibson and it is 100% authentic. She was arrested simply because the Marshall Islands were under Japanese rule. She would have been considered a spy.
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@Tampa_girl7 (54716)
• United States
17 Jul 17
There is a hotel in Germany named after Amelia. Her portrait is in the lobby. 
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@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
17 Jul 17
Very famous and sad ending for her @Tampa_girl7 .1 person likes this
@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
10 Jul 17
So were they killed by the soldiers?
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@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
10 Jul 17
Yep. Mr Noonan was beheaded and they found 189 bone fragments of Earhart @thislittlepennyearns .
@bunnybon7 (50970)
• Holiday, Florida
11 Jul 17
that is so sad. she was at the wrong place the wrong time
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@JESSY3236 (22244)
• United States
11 Jul 17
I saw a headline of this a few days ago. It's good and sad news.
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@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
11 Jul 17
And it lets you know just how sneaky our government is with secrets @JESSY3236 .
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
10 Jul 17
I digress from this documentary but I have toured the home in Atchison, Kansas where Earhart was born and grew up.
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@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
10 Jul 17
That's pretty neat @JohnRoberts . It's a shame her remains never made it back to Kansas.
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