ok---I'm going to give myself another certificate for being crazy----
now if YOU were going to fly 1/2 way across the pacific, and radio communication was paramount to your survival, wouldnt you be more prepared? Its almost like her complacency was on purpose. Arrogant, maybe, purposeful, maybe too. What if----all those naysayers that said she got herslf 'lost' to enable the Navy to do a search was 1/2 true? She could have figured that she would be found and everything would be ok, after a search of the Gilberts and Marshalls was done. That theory doesnt work either, because she had no provisions for hanging out on Niku for several weeks. Maybe that plan fell apart when Fred was injured in the landing. Another mystery inside a mystery inside another mystery---