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Lt Col Charlie Brown
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I am with SPC Kevin Ford on this one. I don't believe she was captured by the Japanese. I think she crashed and if she made it to an island, those might be her bones
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SPC Kevin Ford
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It seems most likely her plane went down, she was on a desert isle where she later died. We love to make up big complicated stories and endings for people, particularly famous ones. The idea that people die in insignificant ways doesn't sit well with us. If famous people can die in accidents with no purpose, then so can we. So a big Japanese conspiracy sounds better to us, no matter how flimsy the evidence.

That there is even bones on an island at all I find to be a minor miracle. It's a big ocean with precious little land and a lot of ways an early aircraft can fail.
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LTC Eugene Chu
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Edited >1 y ago
Theory has flaws...

1. Amelia Earhart's disappearance was before Japan entered WW2 with skirmish against China in 1937
2. Charles Lindbergh previously received a warm welcome in Tokyo during 1931 after he had to be rescued by a Japanese tugboat during a flight gone wrong
3. If truly captured by Imperial Japanese military as part of war, Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan would be more valuable as live prisoners for political reasons

https://www.thedailybeast.com/amelia-earhart-captured-and-killed-new-evidence-debunks-history-channels-crazy-theory
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