This is the first in a series of CDs for the serious Earhart researcher. Assembled and presented for the first time anywhere are literally thousands of historical documents which tell the true story of the events leading up to and following the disappearance of Amelia Mary Earhart and Frederick Joseph Noonan on the morning of July 2, 1937.
Every message is here, corrected for time zone and presented chronologically.
Instructional sections explain the procedures, call signs and radio shorthand notations used in 1937, enabling the researcher to read and understand the messages just as they were sent. The best source of information about the events surrounding the final flight of Amelia Earhart and the search that followed are the logs kept by the radiomen aboard the Coast Guard cutter Itasca , the Coast Guard radio operator on Howland Island, and by Pan American Airways direction-finding stations on Midway, Wake and Oahu. Each log entry is reproduced, and presented chronologically. Instructional sections explain procedures, call signs and terminology. For ease of use, the content of each message is presented in both the original format and in plain English.