Ric Thus sayeth the Project Archaeologist, and I agree. I still doubt it, as the direction device was a pocket compass. A 1984 letter to Don Wade, a writer and AE history buff. Wade sent Black a photograph of what he claimed was the HFDF as set up on the Island. Show us an account recorded contemporaneously and we might have cause to debate the question.
Comtemporaneous sources contradict that assertion.
There is no mention of such contact in any of the official reports. John Lambrecht's observer during the Navy's search for Earhart. USS Colorado's records show that Seaman J.L. Marks was Lambrecht's observer. People just flat remember stuff wrong. To sign up for daily delivery of the current discussion and research, go to The Earhart Forum .