Gallagher's Ninth Progress Report, October–December 1940 (Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme)

Gerald B. Gallagher, 1940. Western Pacific High Commission records; reproduced by TIGHAR, Earhart Project Research Document 13.

The settlement officer's report and associated telegrams on the discovery of a skull and partial skeleton, a sextant box, shoe parts and a bottle on Gardner Island, and his view that there was a very slight chance the remains were Earhart's.

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What it's used for here

The primary account of the 1940 finds.

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Gallagher's report and telegrams on the Gardner Island finds, 1940

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Sextant box found with the bones

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The Gardner Island bones (thirteen bones and a skull)

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Gallagher's report and telegrams on the Gardner Island finds, 1940: transcription

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A partial skeleton, a sextant box and a woman's shoe part were found on the island in 1940.

Evidence

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Gallagher reports a partial skeleton, sextant box and shoe parts on Gardner Island

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Gerald B. Gallagher

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The disappearance of Amelia Earhart

The mystery article

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Whose bones were found on Gardner Island in 1940?

Question

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Gerald Gallagher: Reported by telegram and in his progress report that a skull and then…

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Cite it

Gallagher, G. B. (1940). Gallagher's Ninth Progress Report, October–December 1940 (Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme). Western Pacific High Commission records; reproduced by TIGHAR, Earhart Project Research Document 13. https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Documents/Gallagher_Report.html

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Gallagher, Gerald B.. “Gallagher's Ninth Progress Report, October–December 1940 (Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme).” Western Pacific High Commission records; reproduced by TIGHAR, Earhart Project Research Document 13 (1940).