Has a forgotten photo in the archives of Naval Intelligence answered the mystery of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance?<\/p>\n
I have no idea. Maybe it does. Maybe it doesn’t. But that’s the claim of an upcoming special on the History Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n The reporting on the photo hasn’t made a case for believing that the photo does what its claimants say it does. Perhaps the special will have more information, with a chain of evidence that will link this back to a specific time and a specific place and reasons for believing that two of the figures are Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan.<\/p>\n Right now, however, all I see is an undated photograph of people of indeterminate age and ethnicity standing on a wharf in the Pacific at some point in the past.<\/p>\n Update!<\/b> The answer is, no, the photograph does not show Amelia Earhart<\/a>. The photo, it turns out, was “first published in Palau under Japanese rule in 1935, in a photo book,” two years before Earhart and his navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared on their round-the-world flight.<\/p>\n However, this raises a question in my mind. How and why did this photograph end up in the archives of Naval Intelligence? That we will likely never know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Has a forgotten photo in the archives of Naval Intelligence answered the mystery of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance? I have no idea. Maybe it does. Maybe it doesn’t. But that’s the claim of an upcoming special on the History Channel. The reporting on the photo hasn’t made a case for believing that the photo does whatContinue reading “Did Amelia Earhart Survive?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[4593,4594],"class_list":["post-30889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-amelia-earhart","tag-fred-noonan","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}