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Post by Admin on Jul 12, 2017 19:18:34 GMT
Last week, a team of investigators made a discovery that could render U.S. history books obsolete: They uncovered a photo that shows what might be Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, in the Marshall Islands under Japanese custody after crash landing in the Pacific Ocean in 1937. Until now, the common narrative was that Earhart and Noonan did not survive the crash, as their bodies and the plane were never found—but this new development proves that may not have been the case. In the History Channel’s new documentary, Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence, which debuted last night, experts explain how they identified what is “very likely” Earhart and Noonan in the fuzzy, never-before-seen photo. For Noonan, thought to be the Caucasian man facing the camera on the left, it’s the sharp, receding hairline, nose, and teeth; for Earhart, who sits in the center with her back to the camera, it’s the tomboyish haircut—described as “too long for a man, but too short for a native woman”—and the fact that she’s wearing pants. Which means if that really is Noonan and Earhart in the photo (historians seem to be pretty convinced, but there have been naysayers), we have her unconventional, menswear-inspired style to thank for making it that much clearer. It’s easy to assume that Earhart’s simple, no-frills style reflected a lack of interest in fashion. But clothes actually played a major role in her life and career: She designed the jumpsuits she wore in the cockpit and had her own label, Amelia Earhart Fashions, which financed her flight expeditions and consisted of practical, affordable, aviation-inspired dresses, suits, trench coats, and separates. The clothes were sold at Macy’s and Marshall Fields and may have even paved the way for “athleisure.” According to the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation website, Earhart was inspired to launch the line after a conversation with Elsa Schiaparelli about a need for easy, functional clothes for “active living.” The collection didn’t last very long, but insiders recognized Earhart’s singular tastes; in 1934, the Fashion Designers of America named her one of the country’s best-dressed women.
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Post by Admin on Jul 14, 2017 19:17:08 GMT
Les Kinney and Dick Spink are convinced a skinny piece of metal and another small, circular piece of metal - which are currently being analysed by the companies which built Earhart's plane - is actually the trim and dust cover from the aircraft's landing gear, which they say broke off when it smashed along the rough coral shore at Mili at about 10am on July 2. If it is proven to be part of Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10E it means they were more than 850 miles from Howland Island, their next scheduled refuelling stop when they disappeared. It also puts them 2,000 miles from the spot in the sea where other Earhart sleuths believe the plane, having run out of fuel, crashed on that same morning. But more than that, if the plane landed on Mili - as Kinney and Spink are convinced it must have - it lends credence to speculation that the doomed adventurers fell into the hands of the Japanese, who just five years later would be engaged in all-out war with the Americans.
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Post by Admin on Jul 16, 2017 19:57:47 GMT
A newly discovered photo that claimed to hold the key to the 80-year-old mystery surrounding Amelia Earhart's disappearance may have been published two years before she vanished, new evidence suggests. The blurry photo, used in a History Channel documentary, was alleged to show the groundbreaking pilot and her navigator Fred Noonan alive and well on a dock in the Marshall Islands in 1937. But two bloggers say they have found the photo in a Japanese coffee-table book from 1935 -- when Earhart was safely in the United States. The bloggers say the photo was originally published in a travel book titled "Naval life line; the view of our South Pacific: Photo album of Southern Pacific Islands." 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. One of the bloggers, Matt Holly, said the person previously identified as Earhart in the photo could even be a man. "This (figure) has an upper body group of a man," he said. The photo has been found to have been published in a 1935 book titled "Naval life line; the view of our South Pacific: Photo album of Southern Pacific Islands." dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1223403/99?itemId=info%3Andljp%2Fpid%2F1223403&contentNo=99
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Post by Admin on Jul 20, 2017 19:23:06 GMT
Mike Harris, Rich Martini & Paul Cooper discuss their findings while on Saipan examining the eyewitness accounts that Amelia Earhart had been incarcerated there after she disappeared in 1937. Armed with 17 new eyewitness reports from locals that have never been before recorded, and 6 US Marines who claim they saw her airplane, the Electra on Saipan, a former President of the Chamber of Commerce of Saipan announces that he believes "beyond a shadow of a doubt" she was there on Saipan and that her plane was there as well. For more information please visit EarhartOnSaipan com
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Post by Admin on Jul 22, 2017 19:59:58 GMT
History has decided not make a documentary about Amelia Earhart available on streaming and on-demand platforms as it investigates challenges to evidence behind claims made in the two-hour special. “Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence” proposed that Earhart, who disappeared while piloting a plane over the Pacific Ocean in 1937, had survived a crash landing and been captured by the Japanese military. As evidence, it offered up a photo that analysts claimed was likely taken between 1937 and 1943. The special premiered earlier this month on the A+E Networks cable channel. But on the heels of reports about the photograph and capture theory, a Japanese military blogger stepped forward last week with evidence that the photograph had been taken in 1935, two years before Earhart’s disappearance. The blogger cited a book allegedly published in 1935 containing the photograph. History said last week that it would investigate the photograph. The network decided to not move forward with scheduled re-airings of the special and to remove it from on-demand and streaming platforms as the investigation continues.
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