Amelia Earhart mystery: Photo appears taken 2 years before pilot vanished.

[Cattledog]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/12/asia/amelia-earhart-photo-japan/index.html

A newly discovered photo that claimed to hold the key to the 80-year-old mystery surrounding Amelia Earhart's disappearance may have been published two years before she vanished, new evidence suggests.

The blurry photo, used in a History Channel documentary, was alleged to show the groundbreaking pilot and her navigator Fred Noonan alive and well on a dock in the Marshall Islands in 1937.
But two bloggers say they have found the photo in a Japanese coffee-table book from 1935 -- when Earhart was safely in the United States.
The bloggers say the photo was originally published in a travel book titled "Naval life line; the view of our South Pacific: Photo album of Southern Pacific Islands."

[Bayard]

1. I watched the documentary

It said the photo was found in the National Archives recently, having originally been classified.

I found the show fascinating, and rather disturbing. And totally believable.

[John1956PA]

2. There is an alternative theory that she landed on Gardner Island which is south of Howland Island.

The proponents of both sides of the debate are sharply at odds with each other.

For what it may be worth, a key proponent of the Marshall Islands crash-landing theory advanced by The History Channel special is anti-Hillary and very anti-Democratic Party.