Amelia Earhart Mystery : Does photo show she died a Japanese prisoner ?

That was a really good documentary from the History Channel. I sure miss that part of t.v. Thanks Bill.

I'd like to add that after having watched that documentary, taking into account the experts and the eyewitness testimony, I believe that photo was of Amelia and her navigator and whoever debunked it was either lying about the date deliberately or believed it out of manipulated ignorance.

I believe she did die on that island.

And to add more controversy or a definitive answer to the discussion about the photo claiming to show Earhart and Noonan on the dock at Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands, see the article and links below.


Amelia Earhart mystery: Photo appears taken 2 years before pilot vanished

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"Kota Yamano, a Japanese military history blogger, was skeptical about the photo as well. Shortly after learning about it, he searched the term "Jaluit" in the National Diet Library and quickly found the photo in a 1935 book. The whole thing took about 30 minutes..."

"The book is shown in a digital photo in Japan's National Diet Library, the country's largest collection of books. The site says it is from Showa 10, the 10th year of the Showa emperor, also known as 1935." See the "Date of Publication" at the link below.

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/asse...xlarge-169.jpg

Link to the image in the Japan's National Diet Library: http://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1...3&contentNo=99

Link to the article: https://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/12/a...pan/index.html

Bumping this mystery-that-won't-go-away with an interesting new update.

• https://explorersweb.com/sonar-image...-missing-plane

Sonar Image could be Amelia Earhart’s Missing Plane

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A company specializing in underwater exploration believes they may have found Amelia Earhart’s missing plane.

Earhart, a pioneering aviator, went missing in 1937 while attempting to become the first woman to circumnavigate the Earth by plane. Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the central Pacific. The pair had aimed to land on tiny Howland Island where they needed to refuel. But they never arrived.

A three-month search

Between September and December last year, a company called Deep Sea Vision searched 5,000 square kilometers of the Pacific for Earhart’s Lockheed Model 10-E Electra plane. Using an autonomous underwater submersible equipped with sonar sensors, the company captured an image that company founder Tony Romeo seems sure is Earhart’s plane.

“You’d be hard-pressed to convince me it’s not the plane,” Romeo told The Washington Post.

The image (at the top of the page) shows something resting about three miles underwater somewhere within a 100-mile radius of Howland Island. The company has not released a precise location.

Squint and the object certainly appears plane-shaped, but confirming the find will require Deep Sea Vision to return and investigate the object, perhaps using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV).

https://s3.amazonaws.com/www.explore..._249572008.jpgAmelia Earhart in a Department of Commerce plane.

“They need to go back”

Romeo, a pilot and former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, was in South Carolina real estate before he sold up to fund his search for Earhart’s plane. His fixation on finding this particular wreck could cloud his judgment. Experts certainly don’t sound as convinced.

“While it is possible that this could be a plane and maybe even Amelia’s plane, it is too premature to say that definitively. It could also be noise in the sonar data, something geologic, or some other plane,” underwater archaeologist Andrew Pietruszka explained to CNN.

“It’s hard to say what it is,” Dorothy Cochrane, a curator at the National Air and Space Museum told The Washington Post. “They need to go back.”

Romeo hopes the company will return to the site within the next year. If he could find the “NR16020” certification printed on the underside of the missing Lockheed’s wing, he’d open a new chapter in the 85-year mystery.

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Posted by Bill Ryan

“You’d be hard-pressed to convince me it’s not the plane,”

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That's a bold statement based on a single poor, low-resolution image -- unless they have others, and more data.

The seafloor is a veritable junk yard of planes and shipwrecks. This could be anything. And if you look closely at the profile of the supposed plane, it appears to have swept back wings. Earhart flew a Lockheed Electra 10-E, which did not, when she went missing in 1937. The Nazi's experimented with the swept back wing design, but they didn't really start to appear until the jet age.

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• Amelia Earhart | Long Lost Plane Found? | Aviator's Plane Missing Since 1937 | N18V:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cvdGbmwo--g

One of aviation's greatest mysteries could finally be solved. A deep-sea exploration company has announced the discovery of what could be the remains of Amelia Earhart's aircraft. American aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 during their ambitious attempt to circumnavigate the globe.

• Unveiling the Mystery | Amelia Earhart Lost Plane Found?

Source: https://www.rumble.com/video/v47n3sr/?pub=ir01b

Bumping this thread with an interesting new report:

(...but there have been SO many reports over the years, long-time Amelia Earhart investigators may not be holding their breath just yet :flower:)

Researchers believe they may have found Amelia Earhart's plane

https://youtube.com/watch?v=JNfghqxGats