My readers I have a passionate love for this lady's courage and her story. She is a role model for women all over the world.
Was she captured by the Japanese and held in custody and executed as a spy? If that had happened, the records would have surfaced during the post-war US occupation of Japan. There was one US Navy officer sent on an exploration mission to Japanese-held islands. He was captured and quickly executed as a spy with a warning telling Roosevelt not to do it again. Earhart would have been held hostage and used as a bargaining chip to get big concessions out of the USA.
Did she crash in the open Pacific? That is still a possibility. Frankly her navigator was not the most competent. But this is not my favorite theory.
I believe that she got lucky and landed on the Nikumaroro Islands. She eventually died of thirst or starvation.
Here is an article from USA Today:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/07/24/amelia-earhart-birthday-distress-call/782617002/
Was she captured by the Japanese and held in custody and executed as a spy? If that had happened, the records would have surfaced during the post-war US occupation of Japan. There was one US Navy officer sent on an exploration mission to Japanese-held islands. He was captured and quickly executed as a spy with a warning telling Roosevelt not to do it again. Earhart would have been held hostage and used as a bargaining chip to get big concessions out of the USA.
Did she crash in the open Pacific? That is still a possibility. Frankly her navigator was not the most competent. But this is not my favorite theory.
I believe that she got lucky and landed on the Nikumaroro Islands. She eventually died of thirst or starvation.
Here is an article from USA Today:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/07/24/amelia-earhart-birthday-distress-call/782617002/
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