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Has anyone here heard this alternative theory to Earhart's disappearance? There are a lot of eyewitnesses, and kids of eyewitnesses, that have been interviewed in the Marshall Islands, saying she crashed on an atoll (or was shot down), and was captured by the Japanese, along with Fred Noonan. The first aid assistant to a Japanese doctor at the time says he bandaged an infected knee wound of Noonan's, before the two were transferred to Japanese military HQ for interrogation. Another Marshallese woman says she saw Earhart being executed. And a couple of US military personnel say they watched from the bushes as Americans, after taking over the islands, burned her plane. There's a mechanic who says he installed a couple of spy cameras on her plane before she left the US. So the theory is, the US destroyed her plane in order to destroy any evidence that might implicate AE as a spy. This was after the Japanese repaired her plane and copied the construction of it (they had no aluminum planes at the time), and started making copies for their airforce.
And? Why isn't it getting more play? The Gardner Island/Nikomororo Island theory gets into the news every few years, even with re-hashed news. We never see anything in the media about the Marshall Islands story.
And? Why isn't it getting more play? The Gardner Island/Nikomororo Island theory gets into the news every few years, even with re-hashed news. We never see anything in the media about the Marshall Islands story.
How so? Could you manage to be a little more forthcoming, for the sake of the discussion forum? Many members here weren't alive yet in the 60's.
That was an early theory, especially after the US entered WW II. If I remember correctly, and I may not, the debunking consisted mainly of governmental denials (think about that for a minute, what better reason to fight than to admit the enemy killed America's Heroine) and the fact that even her most generous routing didn't bring her lose to any Japanese held islands, the militarization of which was already known in any event.
Earhart was known within the flying community as a notoriously poor navigator with a loose grasp on navigation/fuel consumption/optimum cruising speed/distance traveled. That's why she had Noonan flying right seat, he was good at those things. Except he probably made a mistake that time due to incorrect charts.
That was an early theory, especially after the US entered WW II. If I remember correctly, and I may not, the debunking consisted mainly of governmental denials (think about that for a minute, what better reason to fight than to admit the enemy killed America's Heroine) and the fact that even her most generous routing didn't bring her lose to any Japanese held islands, the militarization of which was already known in any event.
Earhart was known within the flying community as a notoriously poor navigator with a loose grasp on navigation/fuel consumption/optimum cruising speed/distance traveled. That's why she had Noonan flying right seat, he was good at those things. Except he probably made a mistake that time due to incorrect charts.
Well, the military leading the debunking doesn't give it any credibility. And they didn't kill her until the war was almost over. She was killed in 1944, according to several islanders, one of whom saw the deed done. When she and Noonan and the plane were found and removed from the atoll where they landed or crashed, no one outside of the local Japanese authorities and the islanders knew where she was. The US was scouring the South Pacific for her. So her capture couldn't have been used as an excuse to enter the war. The Japanese swore the islanders to secrecy. The US only found out her plane was there at the end of the war.
Well, the military leading the debunking doesn't give it any credibility.
And they didn't kill her until the war was almost over.
She was killed in 1944, according to several islanders...
So her capture couldn't have been used as an excuse to enter the war.
IF (a very big IF) she survived a crash in condition to remain alive...
the Japanese would have used her for the propaganda value.
If not immediately then certainly after the Pearl Harbor raid and war was declared.
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