A photo of Amelia Earhart, born 120 years ago today on July 24th, 1897. Amelia Mary Earhart was not only an aviation trailblazer and author, but was also a pioneer who challenged gender stereotypes. During her 1937 attempt to circumnavigate the globe with navigator Fred Noonan, she was presumed lost and never found. But new evidence - including information from the National Archives (as well as a photo) - persuasively suggests that she landed in the Marshall Islands and was taken prisoner by the Japanese, dying 2 years later on Saipan.
One of Amelia Earhart's most famous flights, the 1928 transatlantic flight that began on June 17th 1928 and lasted 20 hours and 40 minutes has an interesting story. As Amelia was actually a last minute replacement for Amy Phipps Guest, she had not had any training on the particular type of plane that was used (one that relied on specific instrumentation to fly). Therefore pilot Wilmer Stultz flew with her to 'document flying time', however, ended up piloting the plane the entire length of the trip. Once the team landed in Wales Amelia was quoted as saying "Stultz did all the flying—had to. I was just baggage, like a sack of potatoes."
In 1932, Amelia Earhart set off alone, at the age of 34, from Newfoundland to a pasture in Culmore, Northern Ireland. She had intended to mimic Charles Lindbergh's solo flight to Paris but had run into major complications along the way.
Amelia had multiple flights during her career - all of which pushed the limits and were aimed to break long standing records which (men) had accomplished. With her celebrity status, Amelia constantly focused on gender equality, showing that women could obtain the same objectives as men.
Very compelling. The witnesses have no reason to lie. My late father was a commissioned officer in the US Navy. He had a top secret clearance. When I asked him about her, he said she was a spy, captured by the Japanese and died in their custody.
The whole time, I was thinking the same thing. Fred Noonan was also captured - I guess it's the product of fame and gender bias. Noonan is an important part of the story and the photo of him was part of what made the story persuasive!
As with anything, you have to use your mind when watching such things - and yet, there are facts and evidence in any of their shows. You just have to focus on them and make your own conclusions . . .
Tom Kaufman ...speculative propaganda??? hardly ... forensic analysis by experts verify the authenticity of the photo in question and eyewitness testimony ... a closed mind isn't helping you any
Tom Kaufman, I don't understand the anger you appear to be feeling. Am I missing something? It's really nothing of right or wrong value to me at this point, whether she was imprisoned or not, ya know? It's all about the mystery which it still is. My logical side says she's dead either way and anyone connected is long gone. The show was just adding another piece of mystery to add to her crazy story/demise. I was just wondering why you were so up about it. No big deal.
Because you usually see her in pants - really unique in that era. Actually, some eyewitness reports were persuasive because they saw a Caucasian woman with short hair and in pants . . .
"predictive programming" and manipulation of sentiments against races. all for people to respond or not respond to unconstitutional actions by our government coming up in the near future.... just recall the david koresh, waco, texas home invasion and use of military action against private citizens without due process. use of lies and propaganda succeeded in controlling peoples responses and conditioned to allow the government to kill everyone in koresh's group. americans allowed it believing the speculative reports that child abuse was occurring and in a cult in a private home.... burned everyone alive. Americans believed everything we were told on TV.... This "process test" proved to the Tavistock type invisible college psychiatrist consultants that America would swallow another Pearl Harbor false flag big lie on American soil....
No disrespect to her but I am guessing she is dead and has been for a very long time. Whatever happened that many years ago is irrelevant today. And yes I have been to her home. Happy to honor her life.
Irrelevant?? I hardly think so ... just proves another case of the gov't covering up the ''inconvenient truth'' ... they went to a great deal of trouble to hide all the reports of her and noonan surviving the 'crash' and perpetuated the lie for 80 years ...
Can't even read the article. First time I tried I got one of the 'free phone' popups that wouldn't go away. Then the second time I tried I got the virus popups that don't go away. What a pain.
Rachel, that isn't on AncientFaces. We don't have popups. You should go directly to the page. If you're experiencing popups, it's either a setting on your computer or you're going to another website.
I dont think its Gender Bias to not mention Fred - Men were already flying - a womans history does NOT HAVE to include men, Men have have LONG DOMINATED HISTORY and their wives have been ignored of vilified. They bring it up because ppl love a mystery, and it is relevant today due to the technology we have now. Lets stop the sexist assumptions, women could not own property then and had VERY limited job opp - let her have her place
I thought it was great. I've never believed they died in a crash. This just confirms what I always thought. As much as I love our country, I do believe they turned their back on them due to the Japanese problems at that time. Too many witnesses. It's sad but, history .
I agree. What could have possibly happened to the ones that were found and tested. Why would someone dispose of them? I would like to see THAT further investigated.
the program was a real eye-opener!! looks like pretty ironclad proof she was captured ... heard a story a long time ago that part of her flight was actually a spy mission, which is what the Japanese claimed when she and noonan were captured. Very compelling evidence ... couldn't help but wonder how much all that investigation cost ... photo analysis, facial recognition, metal analysis, flights to the Marshall Islands and beyond and back ... a fortune!
I watched the program and I was intrigued by the presentation. I believe she did survive somewhere based on so many reports of people hearing her broadcast days after she disappeared. Some where the answer is out there.
I found the entire presentation believable and plausible BUT I find myself asking two very basic questions.
1) exactly WHO on a remote, native island even had a camera and why take the picture? If it was taken by a Japanese officer who could have had a camera - how in the world did it end up in US archives?
2) while relations were tense with the Japanese, we were NOT at war when she disappeared. Assuming they took her into custody, they quickly would have discovered she was a famous flyer and eventually would have begrudgingly figured out she probably was not a spy. Regardless, what would they gain from holding her prisoner for up to two years until she died or they executed her?
I'm having trouble understanding how the Japanese could justify holding her until death if we were not currently at war. Atrocities did and do happen. But I'm having trouble understanding what in the marshal islands the Japanese were trying to protect from "spying" is all.
That said, i enjoyed the information presented and it certainly was a presentation that opened the door to rethinking what happened based on weather conditions, wind patterns and fuel consumption.
Check out the article on The Daily Beast, it seems to confirm my claim that the History channels claim was not true. Also NBC news posted a Tweet on the matter.
I'm not sure that is her in the photograph that they found because the woman's hair is too dark. Amelia's hair was Auburn, a shade of red brown. Even in this photo you presented with the post, her hair does not look black but much lighter. The only thing that is weird is the pants. Women wearing pants at this time was an anomaly, but Amelia wore them anyway! So still more doubt and confusion.
My personal belief is that she and Noonan simply crashed into the ocean as has always been thought . The Japanese at that time frame had near zero reason to hold them as prisoners . And yes , i watched the history channel special . The usa and Japan are allies now and have been for decades . If they had info on this they would have told the Us about it by now .
Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas USA, and died at age 39 years old on July 2, 1937 at Pacific Ocean. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Amelia Earhart.
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