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

> Gerald B. Gallagher, 1940. 10 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The primary account of the 1940 finds.

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# 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.

**Disappearance of Amelia Earhart** ReportCopy of **[Gallagher's report and telegrams on the Gardner Island finds, 1940](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/artifacts/ART0CYPN4ZE68XC/gallaghers-report-and-telegrams-on-the-gardner-island-finds)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

The primary account of the 1940 finds.

## Cited by on this site 10 records

[Gallagher's report and telegrams on the Gardner Island finds, 1940](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/artifacts/ART0CYPN4ZE68XC/gallaghers-report-and-telegrams-on-the-gardner-island-finds)

ART

[Sextant box found with the bones](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/artifacts/ART0CYPN3RC4V8X/sextant-box-found-with-the-bones)

ART

[The Gardner Island bones (thirteen bones and a skull)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/artifacts/ART0CYPN3GJ45MR/the-gardner-island-bones-thirteen-bones-and-a-skull)

ART

[Gallagher's report and telegrams on the Gardner Island finds, 1940: transcription](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/copies/CPY0CYPN5781DKR/gallaghers-report-and-telegrams-on-the-gardner-island-finds)

CPY

[A partial skeleton, a sextant box and a woman's shoe part were found on the island in 1940.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/evidence/EVD0CYPMWNT647Y/a-partial-skeleton-a-sextant-box-and-a-womans-shoe-part-were)

Evidence

EVD

[Gallagher reports a partial skeleton, sextant box and shoe parts on Gardner Island](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/events/EVT0CYPMPAP2B91/gallagher-reports-a-partial-skeleton-sextant-box-and-shoe)

EVT

[Gerald B. Gallagher](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/people/FIG0CYPMHY2166S/gerald-b-gallagher)

FIG

[The disappearance of Amelia Earhart](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart)

The mystery article

MYS

[Whose bones were found on Gardner Island in 1940?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/questions/QST0CYPMTQA45GR/whose-bones-were-found-on-gardner-island-in-1940)

Question

QST

[Gerald Gallagher: Reported by telegram and in his progress report that a skull and then…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/accounts/WIT0CYPMSZW4GRP/gerald-gallagher-reported-by-telegram-and-in-his-progress)

WIT

## Cite it

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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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[Read it free at tighar.org](https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Documents/Gallagher_Report.html)

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