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Amelia Earhart may have survived crash-landing and been held as prisoner with navigator Fred Noonan

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  1. KingCheetah

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    Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Discovered Photo Suggests

    A newly discovered photograph suggests legendary aviator Amelia Earhart, who vanished 80 years ago on a round-the-world flight, survived a crash-landing in the Marshall Islands.

    The photo, found in a long-forgotten file in the National Archives, shows a woman who resembles Earhart and a man who appears to be her navigator, Fred Noonan, on a dock. The discovery is featured in a new History channel special, "Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence," that airs Sunday.

    Independent analysts told History the photo appears legitimate and undoctored. Shawn Henry, former executive assistant director for the FBI and an NBC News analyst, has studied the photo and feels confident it shows the famed pilot and her navigator.

    "When you pull out, and when you see the analysis that's been done, I think it leaves no doubt to the viewers that that's Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan," Henry told NBC News.

    Earhart was last heard from on July 2, 1937, as she attempted to become the first woman pilot to circumnavigate the globe. She was declared dead two years later after the U.S. concluded she had crashed somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, and her remains were never found.

    The photo shows a Japanese ship, Koshu, towing a barge with something that appears to be 38-feet-long — the same length as Earhart's plane.

    For decades, locals have claimed they saw Earhart's plane crash before she and Noonan were taken away. Native schoolkids insisted they saw Earhart in captivity. The story was even documented in postage stamps issued in the 1980s.

    "We believe that the Koshu took her to Saipan [in the Mariana Islands], and that she died there under the custody of the Japanese," said Gary Tarpinian, the executive producer of the History special.

    "We don't know how she died," Tarpinian said. "We don't know when."

    It is not clear if the U.S. government knew who was in the photo. If it was taken by a spy, the U.S. may not have wanted to compromise that person by revealing the image.

    http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...rvived-crash-landing-never-seen-photo-n779591
     
    #1 KingCheetah, Jul 5, 2017
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  2. Pizza_Da_Hut

    Pizza_Da_Hut I put on pants for this?

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    I saw this earlier after someone said that she had a sex tape come out. Both seem somewhat plausible.
     
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  3. Roscoe Arbuckle

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    Amelia was the first person to show that women can't drive.
     
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    What do the Japanese have to say about this? This is pretty interesting and kind of spooky.
     
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    If anyone bothers to read some backstory in this, there have been eyewitness accounts from various sources in the Marianas and in Saipan that attest to Earhart and Noonan surviving and being held prisoner. Stories that have been around a long time. The photo released today and all those accounts from the past....well, let's not so easily discount something.

    Hell, in those Pacific Islands, they've taken it as gospel that she landed in the Marianas and was taken to Saipan. If you look at the picture, the woman is sitting on the dock watching the ship towing a barge carrying the plane.
     
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    So... they're going to figure this out before they catch Tupacs murderer?
     
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    i'm pretty confident this has something to do with snakes. did they ever recover the black box?
     
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    Watch whiteness work
     
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    That's clearly Fred Noonan. Open your eyes, Sheeple!
     
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    This is old news.

    They made a documentary style TV show about it called Lost.
     
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    So that's a positive identification of Amelia Earhart kneeling with her back to us at a long distance in an 80 year old photo then. I think I see Lochness in the background. :eek:
     
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    Why would they imprison her?
     
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    A village of Samurai captured her in battle when she was paid by the Emperor to lead his army to eradicate the Samurai warrior class in preparation for more Westernized and trade-friendly policies. She then unexpectedly joined the Samurai after months of captivity and later died with her Samurai friends charging a Gatling gun against the Emperor's army. Sad story.
     
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    Damn, they should make a movie about that!
     
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    Well there is a photo. That's solid evidence. But who took it and why...as this seems to be long before the OSS was formed and long before Japan entered the war. So doubt she was a spy or seriously considered a spy.
     
    #16 PhiSlammaJamma, Jul 6, 2017
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    This was a gooooooood connnnnnversation.
     
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    I almost got h**d from Amelia Earhart

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    There have been rumors that she was a spy actually. Not that I'm endorsing those haha, but Japan was in a military buildup at this time. Tensions were already rising between the world and Japan by the mid 1930s. Japan had invaded Chinese sovereign territories and were in full scale war by 1937 with China. We were sympathetic to China at the time.
     
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  20. don grahamleone

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    The hairline is right. It's hard to call that conclusive though. Anyone see this airplane wreckage that's in the background?
     
    #20 don grahamleone, Jul 6, 2017
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