Okay, I'm not really buying it, either, but here's the latest author to claim that he's figured out the Amelia Earhart mystery. Synopsis, she was on a spy mission, landed in the Marshalls, held by the Japanese until 1945, changed name and lived out her life as Irene Craigmile Bolam.

http://www.amazon.com/Amelia-Earhart-Beyond-W-C-Jameson/dp/1589799909



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3377766/Could-mystery-Amelia-Earhart-finally-solved-New-book-claims-captured-spying-Japanese-held-prisoner-1945-took-new-identity-freed.html

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Amelia Earhart was captured by the Japanese whilst on a secret spying mission for the US and returned to America under an assumed name to cover it up for President Roosevelt, a new book claims.

The aviator lived out WWII in a Japanese POW camp and was given a new identity because the administration feared embarrassment if the truth came out.

Franklin D. Roosevelt supposedly thought he would be called a 'coward and incompetent' to let such a beloved figure as Earhart be kept as a prisoner with no rescue attempt.

Author W.C. Jameson says that Earhart's plane was fitted with special cameras to take pictures of Japanese military installations on islands in the Pacific Ocean.

When she came down in the Marshall Islands in 1937 she immediately buried a box in the sand before she and co-pilot Fred Noonan were captured by the Japanese, which likely contained damning evidence against them.

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Among the holes in this story is that a guy who knew Amelia ran into Bolan in 1965, was convinced that Bolam was Earhart, and got someone to publish a book about it in 1970. Bolam sued, and the book was withdrawn. But this author apparently believes the 1970 book.

On a side note, if you're ever near Atchison, Kansas, stop there. It's a pretty little town, the Earhart childhood home is a nice little museum and it's in a beautiful setting. They also have a nice historical/railway museum there.

Why wouldn't the Japanese have used this as propaganda of some sort if it was true? After the war started, they'd of promoted the heck out of it that they had her.

I'm not saying I believe this but how strict was the government in censoring information to the media?

FDR was dead by the time the Japanese saw the error of their ways.

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I'm not saying I believe this but how strict was the government in censoring information to the media?

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So one of the claims in the book was that there are still over 100 documents about Earhart that the Army or Navy still have classified. He uses that as evidence of a conspiracy. I think it's more likely inertia, just records that mean nothing, but they haven't cleared yet.

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FDR was dead by the time the Japanese saw the error of their ways.

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Yeah, if Amelia didn't want to embarrass FDR, she was still alive when the president was Truman, Ike, JFK, LBJ, Nixon.....

And her husband, Putnam, was still alive. He had declared her dead and remarried, but why would he have simply ignored her return?

All I needed to read in your post was the name W C Jameson....Google his other books. Let's see...He's got quite the series of Beyond the Grave (escape death books)...including Billy the Kid, John Wilkes Booth, Butch Cassidy,etc....I was given the BTK one as a gift...he tells a great STORY but makes enermous leaps...my advice...just move on!!

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All I needed to read in your post was the name W C Jameson....Google his other books. Let's see...He's got quite the series of Beyond the Grave (escape death books)...including Billy the Kid, John Wilkes Booth, Butch Cassidy,etc....I was given the BTK one as a gift...he tells a great STORY but makes enermous leaps...my advice...just move on!!

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Funny, I was not aware of his history. I've heard some of those other legends. I think the Booth story is the only one that is slightly plausible.

Why did she keep her mouth shut if it's true?

Was in the Marshalls in '46 - looked for her on the beach - not a sign !!!!!!!!?!??

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All I needed to read in your post was the name W C Jameson....Google his other books. Let's see...He's got quite the series of Beyond the Grave (escape death books)...including Billy the Kid, John Wilkes Booth, Butch Cassidy,etc....I was given the BTK one as a gift...he tells a great STORY but makes enermous leaps...my advice...just move on!!

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Funny, I was not aware of his history. I've heard some of those other legends. I think the Booth story is the only one that is slightly plausible.

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While I was quick to dismiss Jameson because of his affinity for writing on similar subjects, I have only read the one on BTK. It is well written and he does extensive research and offers very plausible explanations....just hard to connect all the dots enough to buy in! He has authored many "lost treasure" books that have great stories and are fun to read! But that's a lot of people to escape their supposed deaths!

So what became of Noonan?

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So what became of Noonan?

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Great point. I do see some reference to a William Van Dusen as being the later incarnation of Noonan.

I just find it so implausible that someone would live out their life and not at least make a deathbed confession of being Earhart or Noonan.

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...she and co-pilot Fred Noonan...

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Fred was not the co-pilot.

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I think the Booth story is the only one that is slightly plausible.

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Poster must have really looked forward to fish day 1974.

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Okay, I'm not really buying it, either, but here's the latest author to claim that he's figured out the Amelia

On a side note, if you're ever near Atchison, Kansas, stop there. It's a pretty little town, the Earhart childhood home is a nice little museum and it's in a beautiful setting. They also have a nice historical/railway museum there.

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Also the Frontier Army Museum at Fort Leavenworth. Well worth the effort. Hell, Fort Leavenworth is a museum all unto itself.