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Amelia Earhart was on a secret government mission when she disappeared…

- - - - The Earhart's raised Amelia and her sister Muriel raised their children to be whoever they wanted themselves to be
        
        Many of their childhood activities included baseball, fishing, and roaming through the forest and the woods
        
        Both sisters enjoyed being tomboys
        
        They were considered tomboys because the both did things that no girls ever dared to do
    - - Amelia idolized her father
    - - Shortly after they arrived in Iowa, they went to the State Fair, where Amelia saw an airplane for the first time
        
        Ironically, she was unimpressed
      - Amelia's life became less happy as Edwin had become an alcoholic and he verbally abused his family, but Amelia still loved him
  - - - After the air show, Amelia told Edwin that she wanted to go up in a plane
      - 3 days after the air show, Edwin paid for Amelia to take a trip in an airplane
        
        She enjoyed the flight so much that she wanted to begin taking flying lessons
    - - When she started her lessons, Amelia had been using Shook's plane, but after her excitement from flying continued to rise, she began to save her money to buy her own plane
        
        This plane was the Canary
      - Under the guidance of Shook, Earhart earned an international pilot's license
        
        Earhart was the first woman to earn this
      - Snook felt that Amelia was ready to fly by herself after 20 hours of flight training
    - - Hilton H. Railey was working for a group that was looking to sponser the first flight of a woman across the Atlantic Ocean
        
        This woman would not be flying, she would be a passenger, and she was not going to be paid
        
        This woman was going to be Amelia Earhart--she wanted to make history
      - After 20 hours and 40 minutes of flying as a passenger, Earhart had become the first female to fly across the Atlantic
        
        Earhart became very famous after this flight, but she felt that she did not earn her fame because she was a passenger
        
        In an effort to put an end to rumors that she was not a skilled pilot, she planned to fly across the Atlantic as a pilot
        
        In 1932, Amelia became the first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic in a solo flight
        
        She finally felt that she deserved her fame and recognition, but she was still hungry for more
        
        She felt like a "sack of potatoes"
        
        Amelia published a book,20 Hrs. 40 Min: Our Flight in the Friendship
        
        She married George Putnam, the publisher of this book
        
        He became her business manager
  - - - She advocated for women so that they can be in any career they want other than being wives and mothers
- - - - Earhart and Noonan had traveled 22,000 miles around the world but needed to log 7,000 more to complete the route that they had charted
      - The most difficult task of their journey was trying to find Howland Island—an island only 20 feet high, two miles long, and a half-mile wide
      - About 7 ½ hours after departing Lae, she reported her position about 20 miles southwest of the Nakumanu Islands
        ;40 minutes later, she reported that she was still on course
        Sailors on the Itasca heard a faint message from Earhart when she was 14 hours and 15 minutes into the flight An hour later they heard her report that the weather was “overcast”
        Another hour passed before she said that it was “partly cloudy
    - - She was with her sole crew member--Fred Noonan
    - - She informed members aboard this ship that she only had half an hour of gas remaining
      - After her final transmission (distorted and bad connection), members aboard the ship were ordered by Captain Thompson to go out and look for her
        
        After an hour of waiting, Thompson called off the lookout because he knew that she could no longer be in the air
        
        After two hours, Thompson had declared Earhart "lost" and he had sent out an "all ships" alert
        
        Her final transmission said that she was flying along the line 157-337, looking for Howland
        
        North of Howland along their line of position is nothing but water for thousands of miles
        
        After Earhart’s final message , Commander Thompson of the Itasca to an area about 40 miles northwest of Howland Island
        
        Based on the strength of Earhart’s final radio signal, members aboard the Itasca believed that Earhart was 100 miles of Howland Island.
      - Towards the end of her flight around the equator, she disappeared as she was flying to Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean
      - Earhart had been flying for 20 hours before she sent her final message to the Itasca
  - - - Fred Noonan was the only other person on the Electra with Amelia Earhart--he was the navigator
        
        He was originally chosen to be the assistant navigator and the actual navigator was going to be Harry Manning
        
        Noonan was with Earhart the entire flight because her hardest leg of the trip, the one where she needed Noonan the most came last
        
        He was an excellent aerial navigator but he did have many flaws: he was not very good at operating the Morse code key, he wasn't the greatest celestial navigator or dead reckoner but he was still good
    - - Paul Mantz
        
        Earhart's technical advisor
        
        Earhart was supposed to meet with Mantz to go over flight plans and fuel consumption estimates, as well as performing equipment check-ups but she left early
        
        he knew that there were mechanical flaws with the Electra
        
        Mantz did not feel that Earhart was ready for the flight
        
        he told his grandson that she was not ready for an around-the-world flight
        
        he said that Earhart and Noonan had "one chance in a thousand" of survival
        
        He noticed that she was not a methodical planner who gave attention to all possible outcomes, she never cared about the radio navigation preparations, and she never realized the significance of how important it was to find Howland Island
      - George Putnam
        
        Helped Earhart with decisions of what equipment should be used and who will be involved in the tripp
        
        responsible for all government paperwork which allowed Earhart to fly over other countries' land
        
        helped raise money for the flight and spread awareness to increase the publicity of the upcoming feat
      - Harry Manning
        
        Earhart's original choice for navigator
        
        was the navigator on the ship that brought back the Friendship after Earhart's first trip across the Atlantic
        
        He was an experienced celestial navigator and he knew Morse code, but he lacked aerial navigation experience
        
        he did not appreciate Earhart's behavior and he decided that he would not be her navigator after the failed attempt in Hawaii
    - - The Itasca
        
        Captain Thompson
        
        located near Howland Island and used to smoke signals to help assist the Earhart and the Electra to finding Howland Island
        
        one of the main sources of contact that talked to Earhart and received her transmissions
        
        sent out the "all ships" alert
      - The Colorado, the Lexington, and the Swan were ships that were somewhat near Howland Island and were all involved in the search
      - The Ontario was also on route to Howland Island for Earhart to see
- - - - Not until the end of the year did Putnam accept Amelia's death
        
        However, he continued to look into rumors
    - - Putnam announced he was offering $2,000 for information that would “definitely clear up the mystery surrounding the disappearance” of Amelia and Fred
- - - - Why won't the U.S. government still not inform society what really happened if there statement is so flawed
- - - - FDR and the Government admired Earhart because she was the only person who was capable of undertaking a risky miission
        
        She had the right skills and she knew how to use them: politics, destiny, skills, and equipment
        
        She had a very individualistic mindset
        
        She was willing to take risks
        
        The Navy, State Department, and Cabinet members were trying to concoct a plan to find ways to gain an early advantage in the situation in the Pacific
        
        FDR would not pass up the opportunity to apply his creativity and fondness for intrigue
        
        He knew that if he convinced Earhart to perform the mission, that she would set a goal for herself to complete it to the best of her ability
        
        She would also make an attempt to make this into a movement to promote that women could become more important than just being wives and mothers
      - She was most likely asked to take part in this mission on verbal mission
      - The rumor died down when Eleanor Roosevelt wrote to Muriel Morrissey to assure her that her husband would not send her dear friend on such a dangerous mission
    - - At the time of her flight, Japan had been expanding the Pacific and the U.S. government feared that they were installing a military on a nearby island which was a violation of the mandate from the League of Nations
        
        Japan had withdrawn from the League of Nations in 1935 and they obstructed the law that they could not take control over Pacific islands
      - After Earhart disappeared, people began to think that Earhart was a spy sent on a mission to photograph the Marshall Islands
        
        Earhart had to have been in a covert mission where she was supposed to take pictures of Japanese military installations,
        
        They were sent to see how many airfields there were
      - Many thought that Amelia and Noonan had been sent by the government to fly over Japanese holdings in the Pacific to discover whether or not Japan had been illegally fortifying their islands in preparation for war
        
        In 1937, the Japanese had possession of the Marshall, Mariana, and Caroline Islands through a mandate instituted following WWI
      - She pursued two goals in espionage: protection of U.S. national security, and the prevention of war in the Pacific
    - - Mili Atoll is the southernmost atoll in the Marshall Islands—this was Japanese territories
      - Islanders heard the sound of a plane and were instructed by Japanese officers to stay away from a now-restricted area, the sound was if the plane was losing altitude fast
      - The Electra came down in one of three ways: 1) It was shot down by the Japanese 2) It ran out of gas 3) the failure rate of the components of the Electra
        
        Earhart ran out of fuel because Captain Thompson heard Earhart’s on the transmission saying that she was running very low on fuel (about 30 minutes worth)
      - Fishermen saw two people climb into a life boat and paddle to shore, when they came ashore, the fishermen claimed they saw two white people
        
        Goerner theorized that Earhart and Noonan ran out of fuel, crashed on Mili Atoll
        Earhart was unhurt and Noonan was but Earhart aided him
        On July 13, 1937, according to Goerner, the two were taken to shore by a Japanese fishing boat, then later to Saipan, which is the Japanese military headquarters in the Pacific, where they were questioned and later executed
        
        Saipan
        
        Executed
        
        The Saipan theory states that Earhart and Noonan were forced to land near Saipan, when they landed, they were met by Japanese soldiers where they were taken, arrested, and executed as spies
        However, this entire theory is based off the testimony of one woman who saw a white woman wearing men’s clothes some time before WWII
        
        Although there has been no exact proof or positively identified corpses, there were 72 different people that claimed that Earhart and Noonan were executed in Saipan
        
        According to many Saipanese, Earhart and Noonan were executed outside of the prison at Garapan as spies, but no one interviewed has claimed to witness the executions
        Why would they? Earhart would have been too valuable of an asset to executed
        Even though for Earhart as a citizen, if she were caught being a spy then she would be on her own
        
        Josephine Blanco Akiyama, a Sapian native, claimed that she saw a plane crash in a harbor and she saw soldiers leading two passengers—a man and a woman—into the nearby woods where she heard two shots fired.
        
        When American soldier invaded Saipan in 1944, they found a number of photographs of Earhart, including one of Earhart standing next to a Japanese airplane and another where she appeared next to a Japanese soldier
        All of these pictures were given to the U.S. government where they either disappeared or became classified
        Joaquina Cabrera was interviewed by Goerner and she had seen a “white lady and a man”
        
        Prisoner
        
        Possible reasons why Japanese held on to Earhart: hostage, pawn, negotiating or trading chip, or propaganda purposes
        
        There is evidence that Earhart survived past July 2, 1937 (pictures of Earhart with Japanese and planes)
        
        Irene Craigmile
        
        She began living under this identity after she was brainwashed or after she suffered from amnesia
        
        An alternate explanation claims that both Earhart and Noonan were freed into China, where they were repatriated to the U.S. and she underwent an identity change (Irene Craigmile Bolam)
        
        While in Japan, there is a theory that Earhart adopted the name Irene Craigmile
        
        Tokyo Rosa
        
        On July 12, 1949, Iva Ikuko Toguri was arrested and charged for treason as Tokyo Rose
        Joe Klass believed that Earhart was given the code name “Tokyo Rose” by the Japanese, who was then used as blackmail the United States into signing a treaty for Japan. Roosevelt denied the blackmail and caused her to receive the same treatment as all American spies captured by a foreign power—she was abandoned by her country
        
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        While Earhart was on Saipan, she was referred to as “Tokyo Rosa
        This was a term that meant “American spy lady”
        Following the European D-Day, a woman’s voice was often heard broadcasting false information from Tokyo to American GIs when Japanese resistance was about to collapse
        This voice was known throughout the Pacific as “Tokyo Rose”
        
        Iva Ikuko Toguri D’Aquino was put on trial for eight overt actions towards the U.S.
        When D’Aquino was convicted of treason as “Tokyo Rose”, she said that American POWs were forced to work in the station where she did, and there is a theory that Earhart had been one of the POWs but there is very little evidence. They were coerced to prepare and perform tasks in the broadcasting station
        
        Even if they were not executed on Saipan, there is some compelling evidence that they were transported from Saipan and were held prisoner
        
        Most of the evidence in the Earhart case has to deal with what someone says that they saw or heard, or what they heard from someone else talking about how they saw or heard something
        
        In the years following her disappearance, radio operators claimed that they heard her calling for help after she landed
        
        One of the most persistent rumors was that Earhart was a prisoner of the Japanese after the attack on Pearl Harbor
        
        During World War II, people in the Pacific claimed to have seen Earhart in Japanese custody
        
        Goerner heard from someone that they recalled seeing the Electra being destroyed on purpose and another person claimed that she was a prisoner until she died of dysentery and Noonan was executed
        
        A journalist, Fred Goerner, went to Saipan and interviewed Natives. A few claimed that they saw two American pilots taken captive by the Japanese. However, these sources said that Earhart was not executed, she was held prisoner for months before dying of an illness
      - Japanese soldiers came and took the two Americans and the airplane away from Mili Atoll
        
        While aboard a Japanese ship, a male’s wounds was being attended to but no one could talk to him or the woman that had some “boyish” features
        
        Bilimon Amaron was a health aide to a physician in the Marshalls Islands, he was summoned to treat a man and a woman who had been picked up on a reef near Mili Atoll.
        
        The female was wearing trouser
        Japanese people aboard a ship found the man and woman, claimed that they ran out of fuel and crashed near Mili