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Amelia Earhart's "Final Flight": On Amelia Earhart's Final Flight, She Landed at Mili Atoll and Was Captured by the Japanese

Amelia Earhart's Final Flight is a riveting story about how Amelia and her navigator, Fred Noonan, tried to fly around the world in 1937, while being covered by newspaper people trying to find the truth about her historic flight and the U.S. government agencies trying to keep everything secret. We learn she got lost in bad weather, couldn't find her landing area, Howland Island, so headed into the Marshall Islands and landed at Mili Atoll, the first island that came into view. Unfortunately, tor Amelia and Fred, three weeks earlier, the Japanese declared war on China, were now on a war footing and occupied their landing site at Mili Atoll. Both aviators were captured by the Japanese, taken, along with their Lockheed Electra plane on board the Koshu Maru to Jaluit Atoll and finally to Saipan, where they were both interrogated on the second floor of the Hotel Kobayashi Royokan for weeks (and seen by many) before being put into prison at Garapan. Both famous aviators died on Saipan. In the Epilogue section of Amelia Earhart's Final Flight, author Mike Harris provides pictures and lays out his own research, complete with eyewitness accounts from people on Jaluit and Saipan who had personally seen, and, or talked with people with direct knowledge of what happened to Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan.Read more

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