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George Palmer Putnam talks on the telephone with the White House asking for aid in the search effort for his missing wife, aviatrix Amelia Earhart, in Oakland, Ca., on July 2, 1937. Navy commander V.H. Ragsdale, Naval reserve, Oakland airport, stands by. Earhart disappeared during her flight over the Pacific. (AP Photo)
Amelia Earhart Putnam and her navigator Fred Noonan are seen shortly after their landing in Bandoeng, near Batavia in the Dutch East Indies, on June 21, 1937. It was one of the last happy landings on their attempted round-the-world flight before they disappeared on July 2, under way to Howland Island, somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. (AP Photo)
Amelia Earhart, the American airwoman who is flying round the world for fun, arrived at Port Natal, Brazil on June 6, and took off on her 2,240-mile flight across the South Atlantic to Dakar, Africa. Happy picture of Amelia Earhart just before she left Port Natal, for Dakar, on June 6, 1937. (AP Photo)
Famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, pose in front of their twin-engine Lockheed Electra in Los Angeles at the end of May, 1937, prior to their flight around the world. On July 2, they began a 2,556-mile flight from New Guinea to Howland Island, a tiny coral island in the South Pacific. They never reached their destination, and the exact fate of Earhart, Noonan and the plane remains a mystery. (AP Photo)
Amelia Earhart and her round-the-world plane are shown after a crash as she attempted takeoff for Howland Island, March 26, 1937, Honolulu, Hawaii. Atop the plane, left to right are: Paul Mantz, technical adviser who was not board at the time, Miss Amelia Earhart and Red J. Noonan, co-navigator. (AP Photo)
Amelia Earhart, second from left, is shown as she smilingly answered the questions of reporters about the takeoff crash at Honolulu San Francisco that ended her round-the-world flight aboard the liner Malolo, March 25, 1937, San Francisco, Calif. Beside her at left is her husband, George Palmer Putnam, who greeted her here. (AP Photo)
This is the first picture of the crash of a takeoff are that ended the round-world flight of Miss Amelia Earhart in Honolulu, Hawaii on March 25, 1937. It shows her just after she had clambered from the cockpit of her plane after the accident, with her two men navigators, Harry and Fred Noonan, just visible behind the radio look they climbed out. Note the bent propeller at the crash occurred early on the morning of March 20, and the fliers escaped injury. (AP Photo)
American aviatrix Amelia Earhart, navigator Frederick Noonan, standing behind her, and Capt. Harry Manning emerge from the Electra after it crashed on takeoff from Luke Field, near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, March 20, 1937. Earhart and her crew were en route to Howard Island on their around-the-world flight. The smashed propeller and motor are visible in foreground. (AP Photo)
Amelia Earhart Putnam and her husband George Palmer Putnam display two Kites as they stand in front of Earhart's twin-engine Lockheed Electra, on March 6, 1937, in Oakland, Calif., ten days prior to her projected flight around the world. Earhart plans to fly these kites as distress signals to aid searchers in finding her, should she be forced down during her adventure. (AP Photo)