Amelia Earhart: A Look Into Her Disappearance
The sky remained vacant the morning Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were supposed to touch base on Howland Island, for the last leg of their trip around the world. Leo Bellarts, the Chief radioman on the coast guard ship, was desperately sending radio signals, trying to reach the lost pilot in the air. On July second, 1937, Earhart and her plane, went down in the Pacific Ocean, and have not been found since then. Seventy-seven years after her disappearance, people are still searching for answers about the mysterious event in the Pacific.
Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas on July 24, 1897. While she was growing up, most girls her age would be taught household activities, such as cooking and sewing, but her family did not follow the normal standards. Her parents, Amy and Edwin Earhart, encouraged Amelia and her sister, Muriel, to go on adventures. Amy Earhart was the first women to climb Pikes Peak, in Colorado, and she taught her children that girls could do just as much as boys. Amelia and her family moved to Des Moines, Iowa for her dad’s job. He was starting to become a successful lawyer, but also starting having problems with alcohol, and by 1914 he lost his job. Because her family was moving around often, trying to find her dad a job, Amelia went to five different high schools before she graduated from Hype Park High School in Chicago. During a Christmas break during college, she visited her sister in school in Toronto, Canada. Amelia encountered men who had fought during World War I, and dropped out of school to work as a nurse in the hospital in Canada. As a nurse, she would hear stories of brave pilots, sparking her interest in airplanes.
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...rhart’s life was never answered. It satisfies some, to convince themselves a certain story or theory is true. Clues have been found, but many pieces of the puzzle are still lost. The death of Amelia Earhart, has continued to bring up women’s accomplishments, which is why many decide to abandon the questions, and leave Amelia wherever she is. Instead of focusing on the one event that brought her life down, people can remember her for all the records she set, the people she helped, and the events that made her life so distinct in the eyes of Americans. Walter J. Boyne, a retired United States Air Force officer, once said, “Amelia Earhart came perhaps before her time,…the smiling, confident, capable, yet compassionate human being, is one of which we can all be proud.” Earhart and her adventurous life will never be forgotten, and instead will be honored and remembered.
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Amelia Earhart was born on July 24th, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. Most of the time of her growing up was spent at her grandmother’s house. As Amelia’s mother (whose name was Amelia Otis, note the maiden name) married a man (Edwin Earhart) who had alcohol issues. This led a boatload of almost-divorces, and separation of the family. But during the time Amelia was able to do very well in school.
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Amelia was born on July 24th, 1987. She lived with her grandparents and went to a private school in Atchison, Kansas. During the summer months she would stay with her father in Kansas City, Missouri, which is where he had a job on the Rock Island Railroad. When Amelia turned twelve, she and her younger sister, Muriel, went to live with their parents in Des Moines, Iowa. During her time in Des Moines her father took her to an air show at a state fair where Amelia had seen her first airplane. She wasn't very impressed. “It was a thing of rusty wire and wood and looked not at all interesting.” It wasn’t until years later when she had attended a stunt-flying exhibition with a friend that she became interested in aviation.
In the 1937 newspaper, article “Amelia’s Voice Heard by Amateur Radio Operator”, The Atchison Daily Globe reports on two Los Angeles amateur radio operators who claimed they heard Earhart transmit a distress signal at 7:00 a.m. Pacific time. The article expresses doubt about these clams using the statement “[In] San Francisco, however, a coastguard station reported at noon Eastern Standard Time it had received no word whatever although radio reception was unusually good” . The article also presents evidence supporting the two Radio operators, by explaining the amateur radio operators, “interpreted radio signals as placing the plane adrift near the equator between Gilbert Islands and Howland Island” . The article also, reports, because of this possible transmission from Earhart caused action, “the navy department ordered the battleship Colorado with three planes aboard, to begin a search from Honolulu, where it arrived yesterday ”.
Amelia Mary Earhart was the first of two children to be born to Amy Otis. Her Grandfather, Alfred Otis, was a high class citizen in Atchison, as well as a judge. Edwin, Amelia’s father, endured many failures which caused his blooming alcoholism to worsen, bringing his family into an unknown poverty. Making a tough decision Amy sent Amelia and her younger sister Muriel to their Grandparents to attend The College Preparatory in Atchison. In 1908, at the Iowa State Fair that Amelia’s father took her to, she caught a glimpse of her first plane. Upon Amelia’s first sight of the plane she had thought it was a “thing of rust wire and wood, not interesting at all.”
- Nuwer, Rachel. “Will we ever… discover what happened to Amelia Earhart?” BBC Future. 28 June 2013. 7 May 2014.
The aviation legend, Amelia Earhart, was born in a small town in Kansas on July 24, 1897 to Edwin and Amy Earhart (“Amelia Earhart Biography” par 2). As a child, Amelia did not have much of a father figure; her father was an alcoholic and failed to fill the roles of a parent. (“Amelia Earhart Biography” par 2). Due to her father drinking all the time, Amelia grew up longing for financial security that her father never had (“Amelia Mary” par 3). In her younger years, Amelia always had a sense for adventure and was considered a tomboy (“Amelia Earhart Biography” par 2). One summer, she rode on a Ferris wheel, which made her recognize that she was destined for heights (“Amelia Earhart Biography” par 3). Additionally, Amelia observed a stunt flying exhibit as a child which also caught her attention and stimulated her curiosity in aviation even further (Huso par 1).
The three main theories provided to analyze the mysterious disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan are the “Crash and Sank” theory, changing the name and living a new life theory, and the Gardner Island theory. The most plausible explanation supported by multiple evidences is that Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan arrived safely at Gardner Island but later died of thirst and hunger. However, no theory is convincing enough to answer the question: What really happened to Amelia