... Amelia Earhart executed as spy ? TWO U.S. AIR FORCE CAPTAINS claimed to-day that they - a - had evidence that the American woman aviator, Amelia Earhart, and her navigator, Fred Noonan, crashed at Saipan in 1937 and were executed as spies by the Japanese ...

... igIIIIIIIIIII , Allo ottr 71 /der 111111111 1 w Amelia Earhart NE lovely May morning in 1932, a young woman with a shock of blonde hair =' brought down her 'plane in a meadow near ▪ Culmore in Co. Derry. She was the 33-year- E • old daughter of a Presbyterian ...

... Memorial commemorative plaque may be erected at the spot at Culmore, not far from Londonderry, where the famous woman aviator Amelia Earhart landed after her lone flight across the Atlantic in 1932. ...

... for the accused. Derry link with famous woman flyer IURS. CLARA STUDER, an ILL American who is writing a biography of Amelia Earhart, has discovered that the forbears of the famous Ayer came from Londonderry. Her great-grandfather. John Paton, was born ...

... 235) considers that this may be an unjust criticism of a careful airman. The first chapter, as one would expect. concerns Amelia Earhart, and other unsuccess- fu! pioneering or recordbreaking attempts are described later. Not all’ the stories are ‘“mysteries” ...

... Gallagher near Culmore in Co. Derry. She was the daughter of a Presbyterian minister, she was 33 years old and her name was Amelia Earhart. Near Londonderry, she wrote In her autobiography, after searing most of the cows in the neighbourhood, I pulled up ...

... GARDENING Amelia Earhart's ancestors came from Derry It was revealed in Londonderry yesterday that when Miss Amelia Earhart landed two miles from Londonderry in May, 1932, after her history-making trans-Atlantic solo flight, she was actually going to ...

... essentially land-minded. Alcock and Whitten Brown, Lindbergh, Amy Johnson, Mollison, the illfated Charles Kingsford-Smith, Amelia Earhart and Wiley Post are among the names that come to mind linking the present with exploits already enveloped in the mists ...

... he was 16 he had his polit's licence. “I was born and raised in the flying crowd,” he said. “My father was a friend of Amelia Earhart and he and I used to fly all over the south-west in an old Command - Air biplane.” He flew in the Second World War, after ...

... was the arrival of the Italian fleatlane Armada under General %nlbo at Culmore, followed by the dramatic arrival of Mias Amelia Earhart and her descent in a field near to Londonderry Finally came the Second World War and the North-West was firmly marked ...

... an hour and sixteen minutes. Two members of the unofficial reception party. Mr. and Mrs. Peter McCallion. invited Miss Amelia Earhart was a brave and extraordinary woman, an ardent feminist, who broke off several engagements as a girl because she wanted ...

... poems and a play —a book to treasure. The Vanguard Book of Adventure (Collins. 30s) mixes fiction with reminiscences of Amelia Earhart. climbing Everest and the Eiger and polar exploration. Finally, some books full of inventive drawings and just enough ...