Amelia Earhart Research Paper

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Amelia Mary Earhart was named after her two grandmothers, Amelia Harres Otis and Mary Wells Earhart. It was a family tradition. (Fun Facts about Amelia Earhart. (Fun Facts about Amelia Earhart) On her final flight, were she attempted to fly around the world in 1937, she mysteriously vanished. There are many theories about what happened to her and her crew member Fred Noonan.
One theory about what happened to Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan is that she was a U.S spy, spying on the Japanese. There are many versions of this story which makes this theory less plausible because with so many different versions you can get fact confused with fiction. The most basic version of the story says that Earhart was spying on the Japanese for the Roosevelts, …show more content…

The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, TIGHAR, has gone in many searches looking for Earhart’s missing plane. They have come up with physical evidence such as in 2010 when they found pieces of a pocketknife, shells that had been cut open and pieces of a jar of freckle cream that Amelia liked to use, and fragments of bone that may be human were also found. TIGHAR has also found pieces of scrap metal that may have belonged to Earhart’s plane. The piece of metal fit perfectly with the type of metal and the indentions in Earhart’s custom made Electra. TIGHAR has published thousands of documents analyzing and backing up the Gardner island theory. TIGHAR has found something that may be the body of the plane only a little ways off shore of Gardner Island. What they found is something that is a cylindrical shape between 10.36m and 12.06m long given the location it can either be part of Earhart’s plane or something else totally different. (Finding Amelia Earhart: How Modern Forensics Finally Plotted a Course to Gardner Island | ExtremeTech. ExtremeTech) The age old mystery is soon to be solved with TIGHAR’s advanced technology and tracking systems. In addition this theory has physical proof and technological

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