Amelia Earhart’s Disappearance
In 1937, Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan had planned to travel around the world. But unfortunately, they disappeared without a trace. There had been many speculations such as she ran out of fuel and crashed into the Pacific Ocean. Or she crashed landed and was captured in Japan. Lastly, people say she faked her death and made a new life in New Jersey. But, new evidence has shown that she did survive the plane crash and landed on Marshall island at Jaluit Harbor and late live her life out in Japan.
Amelia Earhart was an adventurous woman who set many flying records in her career. She was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchinson, Kansas. At a young age, she defines the traditional role of being a woman. [S2] As a child, she lived with very wealthy grandparent up until the age of 12. Who taught her to be unique and outstanding. Growing up she defines the role of a traditional woman, she was once called a rebellion. (“Amelia Earhart, Biography Pilot (1897-1937)” 1) As a child, she learned how to use a .22 rifle to shoot rats in her dad’s barn showing that she was a very adventurous and unique human being.
Amelia Earhart was a very strong independent woman who loved to fly and was hooked after seeing her first airplane show.[S3] After seeing her first airplane ride, she was determined to learn to fly. Some rumors have it that she was so independent for women's right she picked to learn from a women instructor rather than a man instructor (Reyes 1). She was also a very caring and genuine person. While visiting her sister in Canada she notices that hundreds of wounded soldiers had been hurt due to the war. Therefore, she decided to stay in Canada and become a volunteered nurse (Maclellan 1). [S4]
As a child she stayed with her grandparents in the winters and in the summer, she stayed with her parents (“Childhood story of Amelia Earhart” 1). She grew up with a sister named, Muriel. Muriel was Amelia’s best friend while growing up (“Amelia Earhart's sister, Muriel” 1). As a child, she was described as very lonely, independent and self-reliant. Making friends in high school was very hard for Amelia. In her class yearbook, her quote for the picture was “A.E—the girl in brown who walks alone. “In high school, she only attended Hyde Park High school due to it being the best science program in the area (“Amelia Earhart, Biography Pilot (1897-1937)” 1).
After high school, she attended Colombia University for a semester then she went to the University of Southern California (Michals 1). When she turned 25, she bought her very first airplane, with that airplane she set the record for women's altitude for 14,000 feet (Michals 1). After her awards and achievement, she was determined to make a statement for women's right and made an organization just for women's pilots. Then later she went on to married George P. Putnam. Putnam approached her with the idea of becoming the first ever woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean (Michals 1). With that idea, she committed to becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean solo (Michals 1). After the flight, she started to get recognition for being the “first woman pilot”. As being called the “first woman pilot” she created a worldwide women's movement.
She then also became the first president of the Ninety-Nines, an organization for the advancement of female's pilot. [S5] The organization still exist today with members from 44 different countries (“Amelia Earhart, Biography Pilot (1897-1937)” 1). Throughout her career, she has accomplished many things and strive to accomplish many more. She had a leader like personality who want to experience things first. Some of her accomplishment is, flying from Los Angeles, California to Newark, New Jersey nonstop in a time period of 19 hours and 5 minutes. Then a few months later she took the same route and beat her own record with a time of 17 hours and 7 minutes. Beating her own record shows that she was a very competitive and determined person (Anirudh 7).
Being a very determine and competitive flyer, she has accomplished many records and awards she strives to accomplish the impossible. In her most difficult and last flight, she planned to fly across the world. With her navigator, Fred Noonan. On her first attempt, she had crashed her plane while trying to take off. However, that didn’t stop her (Kettler 1). She was very determined and tried a second time. On her second attempt, it was going as planned. 21 days later she landed in New Guinea. Then the next destination was Howland island. However, they never made it to the island. They had disappeared without a trace, then the U.S navy conducted the largest ever search party, but no one was found (Sherman 1). Some believe they ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean, another is that they landed in Japan and was captured and killed (Ryerson 1). Her competitive and determine mindset led her to still be pronounced missing.
In the famous missing case of Amelia Earhart, there have been three major conspiracy theories surrounding her disappearance. One theory is she was low on fuel and crashed landed and perished. The other two suggest that she survive the crash and started another life in New Jersey or she landed and was captured by the Japanese army and later became their prisoner.
The first conspiracy suggested that while Amelia Earhart was struggling to locate Howard Island to land, the airplane was running low on fuel and crashed landed into the Pacific Ocean (Ryerson). Before crashing, “she radios the closest US ship “Itasca” multiple of times, telling them that they were having a problem finding Howard Island and they were running low on fuel” (Greshko). After the crash, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered a four-million-dollar rescue search to find them. Regardless of the four-million-dollar search, they could not find anything (Westcott, Ben, and Yoko Wakatsuki). Then in 2003 deep-ocean search company had calculated where would the plane land and not even a trace was found (Greshko). The company's president stated that they “used Noonan and Earhart radio transmission and fuel calculation to find a trace, but nothing was found”. Therefore, this conspiracy is not accurate(Greshko).
The second conspiracy proposes that she survive the crash and was taken prisoner until World War II and then managed to escape and return home and started a new life in New Jersey under the name of Irene Bolam (Sheffer). According to Rutger’s Medical College records “Irlene Bolam supposedly died in 1982 and donated her body to Rutgers's Medical College in New Jersey for medical use only” (“Forensic Analysis, Amelia Earhart & Irene Craigmile Bolam “1). Due to her body only to be used as a teaching tool they were never DNA testing or any kind of test to figure out if Irlene was really Amelia Earhart. After speculation, the school had the body cremated and buried in a grave. This conspiracy isn't very accurate because Irene Bolam already existed. Due to Amelia already knowing an Irlene Bolam (“Forensic Analysis, Amelia Earhart & Irene Craigmile Bolam “1). The real Irene Bolam found out, so she filed for a lawsuit that denying the claim (Ryerson).
The last conspiracy points out that she landed in the Marshall Islands and was taken prisoner by the Japanese army. The reason that they were captured was due to how the Japanese soldiers thought that they were US spies (Greshko). This is the most accurate conspiracy because in 2017, “a photo surfaced showing that Earhart and Noonan landed the aircraft and was taken as a prisoner in Marshall Island”. The photo shattered the conspiracy that Noonan and Earhart didn’t crash at all, but they landed safely and was captured (Ryerson). In the photo, it showed that Earhart and Noonan had just landed. After landing the Japanese thought they were spies so they captured them(Ryerson). This conspiracy is also accurate due to how the four million dollars search party couldn’t find a trace of the airplane or the bodies (Westcott, Ben, and Yoko Wakatsuki). Meaning they were probably held as a prisoner and was later executed.
All three conspiracies circulate either she landed, or she crashed. The second and third conspiracy is the most accurate due to how no one could have ever found a trace of her or the airplane. But the most accurate is conspiracy three, due to how the photo backs ups the claim and how no one found a trace of her or the plane (Westcott, Ben, and Yoko Wakatsuki). Did she die of old age or of being executed? Some say that she was executed because they thought she was a spy. We will never know what truly happen to Amelia Earhart, but these conspiracies are always circulating around the topic of Amelia Earhart.
On July 2, 1937, was the last time anyone has seen Amelia Earhart alive. Seventeen days later she was declared missing at sea. (“Amelia Earhart”1). Amelia Earhart’s disappearance led to three conspiracy.
1. Was she a U.S spy?
2. Did she really crash-land in the Pacific Ocean?
3. Did she survives the crash and flee to New Jersey under a new identity?
In 2018, the eighty-one anniversary of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance, the mystery remains unsolved. The photo from the dock at Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands is still a top evidence of Amelia Earhart’s case (Westcott, Ben, and Yoko Wakatsuki).
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