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Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897. She didn't become interested in planes until about 1919. After she saw an aerial meet with her father, she took a 10 minute ride on a open-cockpit biplane over Los Angeles. Shortly after she began flying lessons with pioneer aviatrix Anita Snook at Kinner Field near Long Beach. She was definitely an atypical woman of her time. Not many women were interested in airplanes, and even if they were, not many …

…plane into the Pacific. She was captured by the Japanese and forced to broadcast to American GI's as "Tokyo Rose" during World War II. She lived for years on an island in the South Pacific with a native fisherman. In 1961, it was thought that the bones of Amelia and Noonan had been found on the Saipan Islands but they turned out to be those of Saipan natives. We may never know what happened to Amelia.