Good Morning! Just wanted to take this time and say thank you to all you armed forces veterans out there who have served your country well. Yesterday, with it being Veterans Day weekend I had the opportunity to watch the new movie "Midway". I didn't know what to expect, except I was really moved by the movie and the role it played being told by actual servicemen who were actually at Pearl Harbor and Midway. It was like it put you exactly in that place and time. As I watched the film, I started to wonder with the date December 1937. For some reason, I started wondering if indeed Amelia fell prey to a cover up or if the Japanese found her in those few days she was making contact from the island. The thing is...if Amelia was to have landed on Gardner...which most likely she would have...then the Japanese would have found the Norwich sailors before they would have found her. Afterall, the survey team showed no signs of a plane...Your bunch on a recent expedition, with the helicopter flying over couldnt spot anyone..so how could the japanese see anyone. I did have the chance to read the article Ric on the Micronesian Islands with the Japanese overtaking all the islands in the Pacific. It was a very good read. With watching the movie and reading the article it makes you wonder how much information the Japanese Empire knew of Amelia's World Flight. However, everytime I ponder on certain questions...it brings me right back to Niku. As much as the theology of the Japanese capturing her and Fred Noonan...its not enough to say they were captured...or they were caught. Its just not enough.
In the recent National Geographic film of Robert Ballards Expedition, one thing that did catch my eye was Fred Noonan walking up the wing preparing for the last leg of the World Flight! Okay...thought you were the navigator Fred...Why didnt you just open the back door and stay in the back. So if Fred was hurt as many of us to believe...then the front right half of the plane must have taken a beating when she came in for a landing.
Another thing that caught my eye was how Amelia and Fred went off course from her descent into Africa by 163 miles. How does one make that valuable of a screw up? Overall, the movie shed some light into that period in time and took you further into the Pacific at Midway. Anyway, would like some response on this topic. thanks