Amelia Earhart was a woman , a pilot and a pioneer. In 1932, she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. A little known fact about her is that she was also the first woman to receive the Airforce Distinguished Flying Cross.
However, it is her attempt to fly around the world in 1937 for which she is most remembered. It was a flight that placed her into history’s mysteries, because the plane vanished over the Pacific Ocean. Both she and her co-pilot, Lieutenant Commander Fred J. Noonan, disappeared without a trace, a few weeks after Earhart and Noonan left Miami in her 10E Special Lockheed “Electra” model airplane. Despite long searches by both the United States and the Japanese military, the plane or its occupants were never found.
July 2012 will mark the 75th anniversary of the disappearance of famed female airplane pilot. She disappeared on July 2, 1937, and her remains have never been found.
There is renewed hope, however, that she and her plane may at last be found and recovered. The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), has found what they believe to be the bone of a human finger on an unhabited island in the Pacific ocean, called Nikumaroro. Read More
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