Amelia Earhart’s Last Flight “There is nothing special about flying around the world,” George Putnam told his wife Amelia. “People have already done it” (Earhart 73). “Yes,” Amelia replied, “but nobody has ever done it at the Equator, where the distance around the earth is the greatest” (Earhart 73). On June 1, 1937 Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan departed Miami, Florida bound for California by traveling around the world. The first destination was San Juan, Puerto …showed first 75 words of 528 total…

…showed last 75 words of 528 total…by President Roosevelt and was captured, she purposely dove her plane into the Pacific Ocean, she was captured by the Japanese and forced to broadcast to American GI’s as “Tokyo Rose” during World War II, and she lived for years on an island in the South Pacific with a native fisherman. Whether any of these theories are true has not been proven. It still remains a mystery as to what happened to Amelia Earhart.