That's a great Texas sound ..
: Amelia Earhart's Twin Engine Lockheed 10 Electra Located on the Reef Surrounding Nikumaroro Island in the Republic of Kiribati, a few hundred meters north of the wreck of SS Norwich City.
July 2, 1937 Amelia Earhart who was bound for in mid Pacific thence Hawaii, landed her Lockheed Electra 10E Special, NR16020 on the reef at Nikumaroro Island in the Republic of Kiribati 4°39'30.37" S Latitude, 174°32'40.23" W Longitude. .
A few hundred meters north of the wreck of which ran aground on the northern part of the island while on a voyage from Melbourne Australia to Hawaii in bad weather on the night of Nov. 29, 1929, taking the lives of eleven crew members.
whose father Temou Samuela was the carpenter on Nikumaroro says the landing was made on the outer portion of the reef flat just north of the wreck of the Norwich City, that the plane was visible at low tide however the shipwreck obscured vision from the settlement. .
"She landed on a tiny atoll – one of many in that general area of the Pacific – and was picked up by a Japanese fishing boat that took her to the Marshall Islands then under Japanese control." ’s statement to the Los Angeles Times in July 1949.
" told me without equivocation that Amelia and navigator Fred Noonan had gone down in the Marshalls and were taken by the Japanese, that this knowledge was documented in Washington." .
In 1981 Catholic clergyman revealed he was instrumental in Amelia Earhart’s repatriation from Japan, and that he helping her create a new identity as Irene Bolam. A woman by that name who died in New Jersey in 1982 was in fact Amelia Earhart, she was secretly repatriated to the US from Japan after World War Two.
A big fat to the ones who say her fate is still a .. does that mean Kinky, hell no :)
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