Amelia Earhart: The Last Flight and the Rumour of a Japanese Capture
On the morning of 2 July 1937, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan took off from Lae, New Guinea, for Howland Island in the central Pacific. Howland was only a low strip of land a few kilometres long. The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Itasca waited offshore to transmit radio signals and guide them in. If Earhart found Howland, she would complete the most dangerous leg of her round-the-world flight.
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On the morning of 2 July 1937, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan took off from Lae, New Guinea, for Howland Island in the central Pacific. Howland was only a low strip of land a few kilometres long. The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Itasca waited offshore to transmit radio signals and guide them in. If Earhart found Howland, she would complete the most dangerous leg of her round-the-world flight.
On the morning of 2 July 1937, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan took off from Lae, New Guinea, for Howland Island in the central Pacific. Howland was only a low strip of land a few kilometres long. The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Itasca waited offshore to transmit radio signals and guide them in. If Earhart found Howland, she would complete the most dangerous leg of her round-the-world flight.
On the morning of 2 July 1937, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan took off from Lae, New Guinea, for Howland Island in the central Pacific. Howland was only a low strip of land a few kilometres long. The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Itasca waited offshore to transmit radio signals and guide them in. If Earhart found Howland, she would complete the most dangerous leg of her round-the-world flight.
On the morning of 2 July 1937, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan took off from Lae, New Guinea, for Howland Island in the central Pacific. Howland was only a low strip of land a few kilometres long. The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Itasca waited offshore to transmit radio signals and guide them in. If Earhart found Howland, she would complete the most dangerous leg of her round-the-world flight.
On the morning of 2 July 1937, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan took off from Lae, New Guinea, for Howland Island in the central Pacific. Howland was only a low strip of land a few kilometres long. The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Itasca waited offshore to transmit radio signals and guide them in. If Earhart found Howland, she would complete the most dangerous leg of her round-the-world flight.