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Aircraft Search of Earhart Plane (report on the search of the Phoenix Islands, 9 July 1937)

John O. Lambrecht, 1937. U.S. Navy, USS Colorado; reproduced by TIGHAR, Earhart Project Research Document.

The senior aviator's report, dated 16 July 1937, on the Colorado's floatplane search of the Phoenix Islands, recording at Gardner Island "signs of recent habitation" with no answer to repeated circling and no aircraft.

MYS0CYPMFQR4AWT · mystery · click to copyMDisappearance of Amelia EarhartReportCopy of Lambrecht's report on the aircraft search of the Phoenix IslandsChecked against the original0

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The primary account of the 1937 overflight of Nikumaroro.

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Lambrecht, J. O. (1937). Aircraft Search of Earhart Plane (report on the search of the Phoenix Islands, 9 July 1937). U.S. Navy, USS Colorado; reproduced by TIGHAR, Earhart Project Research Document. https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Documents/Lambrecht's_Report.html
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