USS Bushnell 1939 Photo mosaic of Gardner

[Matt Revington]

I have not seen this photo mosaic discussed here
https://www.mymcmedia.org/new-developments-in-the-search-for-amelia-earhart-part-1/
I can't see anything significant in the image but further processing might help

[Martin X. Moleski, SJ]

I have not seen this photo mosaic discussed here
https://www.mymcmedia.org/new-developments-in-the-search-for-amelia-earhart-part-1/
I can't see anything significant in the image but further processing might help

"The Bushnell survey took place in 1939, just two years after the disappearance. The logs and associated maps and soundings revealed that the surveyors covered the island's lagoon in great detail, and were on land too, erecting towers and markers. Thus, they likely would have spotted any large parts of wreckage in the lagoon or on the fringing reef, and might have spotted items left by the wrecked aviators, if indeed they survived there. (Remember, negative evidence is evidence.)"

They seem to have missed the bones of a skeleton, fire pits with bird bones and turtle shells, parts of a man's show, parts of a woman's shoe, and some corks on brass chains. Gallagher found those in 1940. Some negative evidence is not evidence.

I don't see anything in the photomosaic.

I wish them all success on their mission to Niku.

[Bill Mangus]

. . . and they left the sextant box that resulted in years of research.