Post by The Taxman on Nov 10, 2004 17:30:45 GMT
For those who have missed anything new on Earhart...this Friday the 12th a new team will be digging on the island of Tinian, some miles south of Saipan.
Til now, the whole idea was to prove that Amelia was on a spy mission at the end of her over land flight and would end that mission by landing on Howland and departing for Hawaii. Looking at the most logical of all things involved I am not surprised that this team is headed to Tinian, the sister Island of Saipan. The one main reason why it has been ignored up to now, besides the population which doesn't exist, is that it was primarily used for nothing but the one thing it was captured for: the base to which the Atom Bombs were delivered for loading aboard the B-29's which dropped them on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The only thing the island had was a runway at the time and the minor base of operations with a set of cargo bays dug into the ground and a fuel dump. Since then the place has been abandoned. But in 1937, when Earhart disappeared, it is highly probable that she, once executed, would have been buried there since no one was going to be looking for her there. As for Noonan...for some reason no one focuses too sharply on him or his final resting place. Perhaps Saipan...separating them and giving the false impression that the skeleton somebody just dug up was alone in his or her death. This expedition claims that there, however, two graves to be investigated. Saipan and Tinian are part of the new diplomatic arrangements in Micronesia, the Marshalls, Phoenix and Gilbert Islands. I wish this expedition luck in their journey and work.
The other expedition...sponsored by TIGHAR, is doing a huge search on Nikumaroro, far south of Saipan/Tinian.
They seem to have found something, perhaps the heel of a woman's shoe. Nikumaroro is uninhabited and has been for a long time, unable to support human life. I wish TIGHAR good luck in work and travels as well. Just incidentally, it is most difficult to conduct aerial photography in the middle of the night...which was when Earhart supposedly was over Saipan. Very possible she was still spying, which makes her more of a national hero, but it would have been somewhere else at a different time of day.
Til now, the whole idea was to prove that Amelia was on a spy mission at the end of her over land flight and would end that mission by landing on Howland and departing for Hawaii. Looking at the most logical of all things involved I am not surprised that this team is headed to Tinian, the sister Island of Saipan. The one main reason why it has been ignored up to now, besides the population which doesn't exist, is that it was primarily used for nothing but the one thing it was captured for: the base to which the Atom Bombs were delivered for loading aboard the B-29's which dropped them on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The only thing the island had was a runway at the time and the minor base of operations with a set of cargo bays dug into the ground and a fuel dump. Since then the place has been abandoned. But in 1937, when Earhart disappeared, it is highly probable that she, once executed, would have been buried there since no one was going to be looking for her there. As for Noonan...for some reason no one focuses too sharply on him or his final resting place. Perhaps Saipan...separating them and giving the false impression that the skeleton somebody just dug up was alone in his or her death. This expedition claims that there, however, two graves to be investigated. Saipan and Tinian are part of the new diplomatic arrangements in Micronesia, the Marshalls, Phoenix and Gilbert Islands. I wish this expedition luck in their journey and work.
The other expedition...sponsored by TIGHAR, is doing a huge search on Nikumaroro, far south of Saipan/Tinian.
They seem to have found something, perhaps the heel of a woman's shoe. Nikumaroro is uninhabited and has been for a long time, unable to support human life. I wish TIGHAR good luck in work and travels as well. Just incidentally, it is most difficult to conduct aerial photography in the middle of the night...which was when Earhart supposedly was over Saipan. Very possible she was still spying, which makes her more of a national hero, but it would have been somewhere else at a different time of day.
