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In advance of their upcoming special Amelia Earhart - The Lost Evidence which airs Sunday, July 9, HISTORY is running a story suggesting Amelia Earhart might not have crashed in the Pacific Ocean:
Buried in the National Archives for nearly 80 years, a newly rediscovered photo may hold the key to solving one of history’s all-time greatest mysteries.
On July 2, 1937, near the end of her pioneering flight around the world, Amelia Earhart vanished somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. Most experts, including the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum, believe Earhart likely ran out of fuel and crashed into the Pacific Ocean. But no trace of the aviator, navigator Fred Noonan or her twin-engine Lockheed Electra airplane were ever found, confounding historians and fueling conspiracy theories ever since. Now, new evidence has surfaced in U.S. government archives suggesting Earhart might not have crashed into the Pacific at all, but crash-landed in the Marshall Islands, was captured by the Japanese military and died while being held prisoner on the island of Saipan.
[...] retired federal agent Les Kinney scoured the National Archives for records that may have been overlooked in the search for the lost aviator. Among thousands of documents he uncovered was a photograph stamped with official Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) markings reading “Marshall Islands, Jaluit Atoll, Jaluit Island, Jaluit Harbor.” In the photo, a ship can be seen towing a barge with an airplane on the back; on a nearby dock are several people.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday July 08 2017, @06:44AM (2 children)
They could well have been capable of that (WWII, where the good guys mass raped civilians in Poland, Italy, Germany... guess what the bad guys could do), but, they took prisoners before the war started, did not attempt to profit on an obvious big prize.
If anything, the photo looks like intentional disinfo, generic enough so that nobody can claim it has been planted intentionally.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 08 2017, @11:14AM (1 child)
Japanese invasion of Manchuria - 1931
Italian invasion of Ethiopia - 1935
German invasion of the Rhineland - 1936
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...and 7MB for one black and white photograph.
Haven't encountered that in quite a while.
A tiny portion of that is a white chick with her back to the camera and her face in profile.
Could be anyone.
I don't see a white dude in the picture.
If there is an airplane in the picture, I don't see it.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Meepy on Saturday July 08 2017, @01:26PM
The "plane" is supposed to be in the upper right in front of the large ship. It's obvious pareidolia, which nails shut the case on this ridiculous "researcher"