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    The Lost Flight of Amelia Earhart
    ------ Original Message ------
    Received: 07:34 AM PDT, 03/21/2010
    From: Doug Mills
    To: <info@ameliaearhartmovie.com>
    Subject: Doug Mills/Michigan



    Hi Amelia Earhart movie group -

    I COMMEND your work and all the time, energy, hard work, reseach, study, etc that YOU'S HAVE DONE to make this websight and movie a possiblity.

    I sent you's a letter by post mail.

    My question is - WHY HASN'T MORE EFFORT & ENERGY BEEN MADE to locate Emelia & Fred's remains on Saipan and BROUGHT BACK HOME to where they should REST in PEACE.

    We all know books, documentaries, movies are of INTEREST - but don't we all OWE AMELIA & FRED more RESPECT and HONOR to them..........................................................

    I am SO SURPRISED the Unites States GOVERNMENT hasn't "intervened" and send a delegation - to have the bodies located and brought back home to the Unites States......................................
    MY GOD will somebody from your GROUP - SPEAK -UP or ALL of US CONCERNED - DEMAND - this to be HEARD, ANSWERED and something DONE ABOUT THIS - ONCE and FOR ALL!!!!!

    You's have MY SUPPORT and DETERMINATION - over 70 years and still all this SECRETCY, COVER -UP by Both the United States and EVEN MORE JAPAN - SHAME ON JAPAN and what they did to Amelia & Fred - and the AMERICAN FREE SPIRIT to AVAITION and it's advancement
    to UNITE all Countries & Cultures to a MORE PEACEFUL WORLD of TRAVEL.............................

    JAPAN & the United States - SHOW AMELIA & FRED THE RESPECT they DESERVE!!!

    Douglas G. Mills / Bellaire, Michigan     over a year ago
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    The Lost Flight of Amelia Earhart
    Doug,
    We agree with your statements. The problem is dealing with the U.S. Gov't is not that easy. The problem is who is the responsible party? No one wants to accept the responsibility of solving the mystery. It gets handed off from bureau to bureau. In the book entitled "The Lost Flight of Amelia Earhart," which you should read, a very famous Marine Corps General, AA Vandergrift, wrote a personal letter in his own handwriting to CBS radio reporter Fred Goerner stating that Miss Earhart met her death oin the island of Saipan. Marine Corps General Tommy Watson passed the information on to Vandergrift after the invasion of Okinawa. How much more proof do we need? Somewhere in the Marine Corps records there should be documentation of this event.
    Carol Dow, Lost Flight    over a year ago
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    The Lost Flight of Amelia Earhart
    Also wanted to comment to you that Earhart was head strong, and she knew what amounts to nothing about radio navigation. A competent pilot would have been nuts to get in that airplane with her. However, the one who really messed up the scene was a man by the name of Joseph Gurr. Gurr told her she didn't need the trailing antenna. She believed him. It was a mess.

    Carol Dow

    Bill,
    The Swank movie was a bitter disappointment to the critics. It got to the most important point, and it fizzled. If you think it might help send me something on Kermit Roosevelt on board the Nourmahal. I can post that on the website and on Facebook.

    Carol Dow


    In a message dated 3/29/2010 2:17:57 P.M. Central Daylight Time, notification+zj4ocj2oj=jy@facebookmail.com writes:
    William E Lemanski commented on your wall post:

    "Hello Carol,
    I'm disappointed the movie didn't garner a higher degree of popularity. In fact, I noticed the prerelease publicity and then the movie disappeared
    without my opportunity to see it. It's a fascinating story and I don't understand why it doesn't appeal to the public. Last Saturday the PBS show, American Experience ran a segment on Earhart which was not very flattering
    in regard to her competence as a pilot. I did enjoy your book and I'm still working on mine of Kermit Roosevelt. I just sent a proposal to the Oxford University Press to see if there is any interest.

    Tuxedo NY is doing fine as the nasty winter weather departs - snows been
    rough. How's everything in your area?
    Regards, Bill Lemanski"

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    Thanks,
    The Facebook Team    over a year ago
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    The Lost Flight of Amelia Earhart

    Ron,

    Bill Galten was the radio operator on duty during the time Earhart's transmissions were being heard aboard Itasca. After leaving the Coast Guard he came to work for Pan Am. We discussed the Earhart disappearance frequently and he gave me his opinion, "That woman never intended to land on Howland!" He called her more that fifty times but she never replied. She never once called him but would suddenly come on the air without a call up and blurt out a message. They were never more than 7 or 8 seconds long, far too short for the Howland d/f on 3105 to get a bearing.

    Paul    over a year ago
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    Interesting comparison of the TIGHAR and Search for Amelia FB sites. It must stick deep, deep down in Ric's craw that the Waitt group not only has funding beyond TIGHAR's wettest dreams, but they have even had the gall to visit Gardner Island -- Ric and TK's private archeological reserve! I hope they left a bunch of bullet casings, fragments of jewelry and an old sextant box behind.

    Search for Amelia has twice as many members as TIGHAR, although their posts are pretty spotty (hey, they don't need to ask people for money!) TIGHAR's site, on the other hand, is chock full o' the tireless self-promotion we have all come to know and love. I was interested in the comments -- most are from insiders like King or True Believers who say stuff like "Go! Go! Find Amelia!!!!!!"

    So there will be another Niku expedition this summer. How the man continues to find people to fund his periodic South Seas vacations is a testament to the power of salesmanship. They bring back zippers, an old pocket knife, a broken shard of glass without any trace of mirror backing which magically metamorphoses into "Amelia's compact," and people eat it up.

    As I've said many times, I gotta take my hat off to old Ric. I don't think anybody else could keep the $$$ flowing after so many abject failures. But hey, it's not the crap you bring back, it's what the crap (with a little imagination) COULD be ....

    Frankly, if AE did make it to Niku, I hope and pray that the Waitt people find her there before TIGHAR does. They are checking out all the angles, that's for sure -- and they have the wherewithal to do it.

    PDG

    --- On Sat, 3/27/10, PrairieBooks@aol.com <PrairieBooks@aol.com> wrote:


    From: PrairieBooks@aol.com <PrairieBooks@aol.com>
    Subject: LFG: search for amelia on facebook
    To: Lost Flight Group
    Date: Saturday, March 27, 2010, 7:07 PM


    http://www.facebook.com/SearchForAmelia?ref=mf

    over a year ago
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    The Lost Flight of Amelia Earhart
    Whoops, looks like I spoke too soon. Going further into the SFA site, it seems they have called off the search and Ric wrote the following interminable comment on, saying "f*ck you" in the nicest way possible. You can actually hear him gloating ... read it if you need an emetic.

    PDG

    over a year ago
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    The Lost Flight of Amelia Earhart
    Carol,

    A few comments here. TIGHAR does plan to use deep water sidebar sonar in his next trip to Niku this summer, looking for the Electra off the reef where he thinks it was washed over.
    The sextant box is gone, but the serial number and part number were recorded and lead Ric to the premise the sextant was most likely a Brandis model that FN brought aboard. It turns out that Manning brought one aboard and perhaps left it there for the trip. Also Clarence Williams, who preparted her strip map, may have donated one.[cites later,if you want).
    Thus the sextant box could have come from the Norwich City, The Bushnell, an equipment ship too, other Navy ships such as the Swan,, all having acess to Brandis models in the 30's.
    Some do not even believe it was a sextant box but a transit box left behind by the New Zealanders.
    You are right, the skeleton is their leading evidence. I would also mention that Karen Burns, who has gone to Niku, is on the TIGHAR board of directors.
    Ron B    over a year ago
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    UNDERSEA SEARCH BY WAITT INSTITUTE FAILS
    Response—Search For Amelia Editor:

    The Waitt Institute has no current plans to conduct or fund future searches around Howland Island or based on other theories. We’ve published all of our research in the hope that it will help narrow the search area for other searchers.

    http://searchforamelia.org/ds-imagery