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University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 13, 1991
Researchers say picture proves Earhart survived Pacific crash
Photo allegedly shows pioneering pilot on Saipan after plane went down
The Associated Press
HONOLULU — Two researchers have produced a photo they say shows that Amelia Earhart survived after the plane was finished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937.
Joe Gervais and Rollin Reineck said Wednesday the picture of a short-haired woman in a short-sleeved shirt shows the aviator on the western Pacific island of Saipan, after her plane landed on an around-the-world flight.
Earhart's aircraft disappeared between New Guinea and Howland Island. A 17-day search turned up no trace of the pioneering woman flier, navigator Fred Noonan or their Lockheed Electra.
The two researchers said that they think Earlart and Noonan were captured by the Japanese after their plane went down in the Marshall Islands and that Earlart was held in a prison camp in China. They think she returned after the war to the United States with a new identity and died in New Jersey in 1982.
Gervais, a retired Air Force pilot from Las Vegas who did much of the research in the 1970 book "Amelia Earhart Lives," said he received a torn, 2-by-3-inch photo in 1980. The photo, with no letter enclosed, was in an envelope bearing the words "Kumoi" and "spy."
Kumoi was the nickname of Jesus Guerrero, a native of Saipan who collaborated with the Japanese and died in the late 1970s, the researchers said.
Gervais said he thinks the photo was sent by one of the people he interviewed on Saipan for his book.
The woman in the picture matches the description of a woman seen on Saipan in July 1945, Gervais said. The description was provided by Carlos Palacious, who was a store worker on Saipan at the time and was interviewed by Gervais in 1960.
Search for Amelia Earhart resumes
On Sept. 30, an expedition will go to the South Pacific to search for Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, who disappeared the end of an attempted round-the-world flight 54 years ago. After analyzing the records, a search team believes that Earhart may have made an emergency landing at Gardner Island (now known as Nikumaroro Island).
Around-the-world route
Last radio communications
"We must be on you...gas is running low...altitude 1,000 feet."
"We are on the line of position 157/337... running north and south."
157/337 indicates a course over Howland Island in the Pacific that could have taken them on to Gardener.
Line of position 157/337
■ The island was flown over only once in 1937. The pilot reported "... signs of recent habitation were clearly visible," but elicited no response.
Mekane Island
Gardner Hull
Island • Island
24 radio transmissions were picked up at differec locations for four days after the disaquegance
Recent locations for hot baths since not in apareance were on Gardner Island in a female voice. When plotted they cross at Gardner Island (above).
SOURCE: TIGAR, Simbhavati National Air and Space Museum, Time-Life Books,
*Last Flight*, by艾美拉蒂 Earlala. Research by PAT CARDW and GOVIER
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