Other editions of book Amelia Earhart: Lost Legend by Donald M. Wilson

What really happened to America's most famous female aviator and her navigator as they made their world flight around the equator in 1937? Did her Lockheed Electra 10E run out of fuel and crash into the Pacific Ocean? Was it shot down during a spy mission over a secret naval base? Did Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan survive an emergency landing only to be captured and imprisoned? Read the fascinating accounts by eyewitnesses and those who knew them! Author Donald Moyer Wilson has compiled stories, legends and testimonies from a great many sources, recorded through the years by priests, reporters and serious investigators. Step by step, story by story, Wilson builds a compelling case based on what residents of several Pacific Islands saw, heard and witnessed from that fateful day, July 2, 1937, whet Earhart vanished. Wilson's conclusions, based on the reports of more people than have previously appeared in a single book, are must reading for anyone searching for the solution to aviation's greatest mystery. Six pages of archival photographs; twenty pen and ink drawings of researchers and eyewitnesses, maps of the Pacific, detailed appendix and index.