“The search for Amelia Earhart has been given new wings with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s announcement that new evidence may help to solve the mystery behind the famed American aviatrix’s disappearance. An enhanced photo taken by a British soldier in October 1937 of a little-known Pacific island seems to show plane parts sticking out of the water just off the island’s shore. “It shows an unexplained object protruding from the water on the fringing reef,” said Ric Gillespie, founder of the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), which will carry out the new expedition to search for Earhart this July. In July 1937, the pioneering pilot and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared over the Pacific as they tried to circumnavigate the globe. In an interview with Discovery News, Gillespie said he believes that Earhart and Noonan perished on the uninhabited Nikumaroro Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. While most people believe that Earhart ran out of fuel and crashed into the Pacific, Gillespie said he’s confident he will be able to solve the mystery once and for all…………”

I have been fascinated with the story of Amelia Earhart and her disappearance over the Pacific since I was a kid. Actually her whole life story. That happened long before I was born, but as soon as I read about it in an old Arabic copy of the Readers Digest, I was hooked. As a result I also became fascinated with the whole Pacific War history. I posted about this before. It would be quite a discovery and an event if the mystery is finally solved, if she finally is laid to rest.
Cheers
mhg


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