Amelia Earhart Mystery May Have New Clue In Never-Before-Seen Photo | TODAY
A team of investigators from History Channel has uncovered a never-before-seen photo that they believe shows aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator alive in Japanese custody after surviving a crash landing in the Pacific 80 years ago. NBC’s Tom Costello reports for TODAY.
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Amelia Earhart Mystery May Have New Clue In Never-Before-Seen Photo | TODAY
According to Wikipedia: "Japanese blogger Kota Yamano found the original source of the photograph in the Archives in the National Diet Library Digital Collection. The original source of the photo was a Japanese travel guide published in October 1935, implying that the photograph was taken in 1935 or before, and thus would be unrelated to Earhart and Noonan's 1937 disappearance"
YES!! The photo was a co incidental likeness of the two fliers, taken 2 years before Earhart's flight. Gardner Island has too much evidence to not be the sight where she landed. A heel from a shoe, a shoe of the type and brand she wore, the cosmetic jar, the pen knife, Noonan's sextant box, a piece of aluminum that was like what was on the plane and the SOS heard in Florida from Earhart that mentioned the "Norchester City", a ship that was wrecked at Gardner Island. Her radio signal gave off harmonic radio waves that bounced off the ionosphere, and down to Florida. The girl who heard Amelia said she knew it was her voice, and that of a man who went crazy and was trying to take the microphone away from Earhart, the girl wrote down everything Earhart said. Navy pilots said they saw signs of habitation on Gardner island, without realizing there had been no inhabitants there for many years. Most researchers believe Gardner island was where she ended up.
Whatever the outcome we need to worry how we are going to end up. Many bigger mysteries exist
The photo is from ONE book in the Japanese Government archives. There are not hundreds of these books or thousands, there is just one of these books. It is not bound together like a normal book with the publishing date, it is a book with medal prongs that can easily be taken apart with a page added to it with the photo. How do they say it is from 1935? There is an ink stamp in the back of the book, like a librarians stamp that says 1935. Easy to fake this. The Marshall Island government said the dock they are standing on wasn't built until 1936 so the photo can't be from 1935. Many eye witnesses place them on Jaluit Island and then on Saipan. No eye witnesses place her and Noonan on Gardner Island.
Amelia’s plane lost fuel crashed into the water. They drowned and were eaten by fish. The plane is now being used as a home for a school of fish. Also that photo was taken 2 years before their disappearance.
MaximaL_SchnappS :-: Humans cant be eaten by normal reed dwellers nor can they eat a aluminum plane.
The Flat Earther Hunter sharks are fish though
MaximaL_SchnappS :-: Sharks are fishes yes sorry.
No !!!!
Another brainwashed American: YOU.
im 54 and i remember this coming out in the 70s. japan denied everything. they had a show on tv about this with interviews with natives talking about the execution of blonde pilot and 2 men. now there are pictures.
maybe same situation as pilot gary powers shot down spying over Russia
Times are repeating 2017 is the new 70s
Japan will NEVER admit anything they did anything wrong in World War II. It's not their policy, it's not what they teach in their history books. Individual Japanese historians, soldiers, and a few politicians have been honest about the Imperial Government and military activities before and during World War II but the general Japanese government line is that they were victims in World War II. It infuriates everybody else in the region when the documentation so obviously shows otherwise. If that weren't enough, you have thousands of survivors -- POWs, civilians, comfort women, etc. -- who are still alive to testify to the fact. I have no doubt the Japanese Navy could have captured Earhart and Noonan. There are things about this story that are screwball from the American end: who funded the trip, the government support along the way, the airstrip on Howland Island that was basically unuseable, and scenarios suggesting that the final radio communiques were either a comedy of errors (failure to share radio wavelengths for direct communications in the final stretch) OR scripted to throw off anybody who wasn't in the know about a secret mission. I think the analogy to Gary Powers is closer to the truth than the official US government line. If something (this photo) FINALLY leaked out that demonstrates the storyline that she ended up in Saipan (in captivity) is the actual history, great. If not, well then it doesn't depend on just photo. There are too many people who saw events independently of each other that have corroborating stories. In addition, we have leaked documents from the FDR administration and later reports that clearly support the Saipan scenario more than this crash-and-sink business or the TIGHAR castaway movie script. It's been 80 years... It's about darn time the reality of the case gets disclosed.
AvengerII no one has ever said it better than you. thank you
I love the way you put your point across. We can't only blame the Japanese. The photo was found in the US archives so somebody in US knew about Amelia Earhart. I just hope that both the governments put their ego aside and get the truth out.
this photo has amelia, the navigator, and the plane? that sounds way too good to be true. if it is real it would be a miracle find
I have to agree, but its reaching to say in the least. Its all circumstantial.
Xian the photograph has been misinterpreted. It can not be Earhart. It was taken 10 years too early.
gavin Reid -- wrong. Even the Japanese source said the photo was taken in 1935. HARDLY 10 years too early. Earhart went missing in the 1937. Two, three years difference? It still raises the question. WHY was what appears to be an earlier generation copy (if not the original copy of the photo) in the US ONI files? The question now is is the Japanese blogger source reliable. HE has to be checked out, too. If you're going to call the conclusions of the program into question, make sure the guy raising the flag is also honest, too. It's not as if Japan doesn't have reasons to hide the facts of its pre-World War II activities, too, right? If you understood what Japan did in the Marshalls prior the outbreak of war with the US, then you'd understand why they have to be questioned. They HID a lot during that period... They also DIDN'T allow the US Navy to search the Marshalls for any possible traces of Earhart because they were establishing a military presence in the area. They were building bases and fortifications illegally in the area.
thanks gavin i just heard about that. i knew it couldnt be
gavin Reid 4 years. Published in a book 1935.
wow that DOES make you think, for sure....
Pat Lepikko it really does man
The problem is the photo is not from 1937, it's from 1935
Japan has some explaining to do.
Qwen R All those involved are dead.
How do you know? Do tell?
Rather, Discovery should have done their homework. Thanks to a blogger bothering to do an archive search, now we know the documentary makers made waaay too many conclusions from a photo they didn't bother to trace to its original publication - which was in 1935...
Qwen R I think the producers of this show has some explaining to do.
That picture has to be double-checked. There's leaping to conclusions it from both angles. Rush to say it's Earhart, rush to say it's illegitimate or mistaken context ( => likely mistaken context). I'd like to see someone else confirm the Japanese source for the dispute. It's not as if Japan wouldn't want to refute the story that its 1930s military kidnapped and was ultimately responsible for the death of an American icon, right? Seriously, it has to be double-checked. Oh, and FYI -- the Japanese didn't let the US military search the Marshall Islands in 1937... Probably because they were building bases and establishing a military presence in the area. On top of which they US Navy didn't want the IJN to know the Japanese security codes had already been broken. The release of the blogger based in Japan is a bit too convenient, too. There was a reason that photo was in the National Archives... Maybe they were mistaken in the late 1930s (about the context) but I find it interesting they appear to have a more primary resource. The picture in the Japanese blog is at least a second or third generation copy of the photo. Notice it's "dotty" and blurrier than the B & W glossy copy the investigators got a ahold of. WHY is the primary photo (or closer to it) in the US National Archves?!? It's amazing people are missing that point (on top of the fact the Japanese source has to be double-checked, too)!
There's a theory saying she crashed on an island of coconut crabs and was eaten alive which is why we can't find her.
No way. Those crabs would have been eaten. She probably died and then the franz might have done away with the body.
currently living here in marshall islands. this is freakingly cool.
maeson R omg
yeah, oh really...she'd be over 120 years old. ;)
maeson R have you met anyone their that can confirm she died in Saipan or that school taught the kids about her being captured
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I’m late ash are you still living there? That dope
I love mysteries....
"I don't know why they call it "Hamburger-Helper"....it's goo-oood all by itself!"
"How do you want your bun? Light or dark?"
RealTomato Ketchup,Eddie? She'll be fine on the roof. It's not like it's going to rain or anything.
Unknown Hacker the woman's got jet black hair did she dye her hair on the island and all those ships they're old Merchant ships maybe she came on one of them to visit this is stupid.
Unknown Hacker Same
I watched a documentary on Disney the other day on this, it seems the most accepted theory is that she crashed on an extremely remote island and perished there. They think her plane crashed in shallow water then the tide carried it further out whir destroying the aircraft either further. I honestly don’t think Japan had anything to do with it. And this photo honestly is rather irrelevant when you all is considered
Plus the photo was taken 2 years before she and her partner went missing
I saw this photo a long time ago. It was determined then that the woman on the dock is not Earhart.
No she ran out of gas and crashed near Howland island, where she was supposed to land. No gas to go any further, and Noonan isn't planning on flying anywhere else. Why fly hundred's of miles away when there is a coast guard cutter that can search for you as long as you stay as close to the intended island as you can.
We all know she is alive and well and living in the Delta Quadrant discovered and rescued from Stasis from the crew of Voyager and Captain Janeway
Omg! The 37's was such a great episode!
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She could be alive at 110 years old. People have loved to 129.
the problem with this is the photo was previously published in 1935 two years before Earhart went missing
Real news, not like the usual good job.
Grant Hill it is real because it fits your narrative right. Just like the man in the white house claimed that every american would be insured, LIE. Secondly Mexico would pay for a wall, LIE. smdh, ignorance is bliss. Fake news until it is something you agree with? Facts are Facts like hey guess what Chrisopther Columbus didn't discover America it was already inhabited, how can you discover an inhabitated land? Besides the Vikings came here before Christopher Genocide Columbus. FACTS, look it up
Now that we know that this news was about as real as anything out of Trump's mouth, will you think about why you're so easily duped?
Report has already been discredited. But lets see how it plays out.
so when is news fake? when reporters don't do any real research on their own and parrot another so called reliable news! source.
Real news has been reported consistently on every news source but Fox.
Listeners on Howland Island heard Earhart's voice on the radio. It was a strong signal. Her plane got near Howland.
Do some research this photo was taken years before she disappeared
HOW DO YOU KNOW????
No
This photo was found in a Japanese publication out in 1935, two years before she disappeared. This is not Earhat & Noonan.
It's an amazing story, but unless you can travel back in time, no one will really know what happened to her.
I can travel back in time by communicating with myself telepathetic
The photo is very non-conclusive. There is no actual chain of custody for it, nor is the actual source verified. There is no way to verify when it was taken. It could have been an earlier photo, or even photo-shopped. Saipan is almost 1000 miles from where the plane most likely went down, near Nikumaroro Island. The Japanese had no military presence near Nikumaroro in 1937. Even Rabaul was not built until 1942. There would've been no reason to take Earhart and Noonan prisoner, nor for them to 'spying' on basically nothing. And if Japan was trying to be low key, they certainly would not have taken them almost 1000 miles away to their most significant presence in that part of the Pacific at the time, and not say anything, make demands for an apology, or other political purpose, during a time of already strained relationships between the US and Japan. Someone as famous as Earhart would have been a political goldmine for the Japanese as a prisoner. Other things to note is that the ship in the picture is not a Japanese naval vessel, but simply a cargo ship that would've been common anywhere in the Pacific at that time. The 'plane' the ship has supposedly hanging from the stern does not even look like it belongs in the picture. It has a different focus ad coloration palette. ANd it looks nothing like an Electra (no twin tail, or other identifiable features.), It could be a lens flare, or even added after the fact. There is also an object on the side of the ship that appears to be a watermark of some kind, and very similar in color and focus to the object in the rear. There are no identifiable numbers on the ship, nor does it appear to be flying a flag showing it's nationality. It could be any cargo ship, from any time in the 1930s, from anywhere. Another thing to note is that there are no Japanese guards in the picture, nor anyone with any kind of firearm or weapon. In fact, no military people, or even Japanese civilians appear to be in the picture. Does it make sense that the Japanese would take them, prisoner, then allow them to wander about on a pier with no guards, no restraints, nothing? If the two people in question are in fact Earhart and Noonan, they do not appear to be under any duress, and actually, seem to be just relaxing. The photo was probably taken in New Guinea before they started the next, and last leg of the journey, if it is them at all. A more logical explanation is that the photo is of something entirely different., There is very strong evidence that this exact photo was, in fact, published in a Japanese Travel Guide two years earlier. It appears on page 113 of the guide, "The life line of the sea My figure of the South Sea: South Sea archipelago photo book", which was published on Oct 10, 1935, in Palau. It is likely that the actual details of Earhart's and Noonan's disappearance will remain a mystery forever.
I believe this! The Japanese were suspicious of her! They thought she was a spy! That was her second flight! My grandpa was related to Amelia Earhart! My grandmother knew about her, even before she became famous aviator. She knew that Amelia Earhart, wanted to become a pilot. Gone but ,not forgotten! The legacy lives on!
Minnie Earhart Yes she was blackmailed into spying,and got caught..this accidental flyover trick has been used before and since,such as KAL 007,over the USSR,and MH17 over Ukraine..
That's crazy , I really believe this is true ! The Japanese got her thinking she's a spy just like the people who had the top secret picture said , "she was a spy don't talk about it"
Interesting how all these "experts" can convince people and as it turns out the photo was taken two years before the flight in 1935.
and how would u know that
How do you know that?
Robert Lockwood No the photo us one of several,not very good but sufficient proof for ONI that she WAS there..ONI gad intercepred radio messages that seemed to confirm her capture..this was additional proof for them..Claims that tge photo was previously published are a debunking effort,US us still sticking to cover story of ocean crash landing ..whole matter very embarrassing to US government..wait til 2037 when files including other photos should be released
@JebaydenSmith The pier wasn't built in 1935, the photo that the book came from was from a later edition.
How do we know that files released in 2037will be complete,altered,accurate or falsified.?Who is in charge of these files now?Where are they and who is protecting them?What does anyone know about them?Just asking
I Worked With Amelia's Sister, Muriel...Too Bad This Information Didn't Come Out Before Muriel Passed Away...!!!! We Had Many Discussions And Theories About What Happened To Amelia...!!!! It Broke Her Heart Not To Know What Actually Happened...!!!! 😢 Hopefully, They Are Together Now Up There...!!!! 💔💔
"I believe it proves" and "I think it leaves no doubt" Thinking and believing are not proof.
"leaves no doubt..." no doubt means we know for sure. How do we know "for sure" looking at this picture. GTFO of here.
nepatriots77 😂
Very insightful.
military don't want you to know, would you believe if they say the photo is published 2 years before?
Brings back memories of “Unsolved Mysteries”. The music used to freak me out! But yes I do feel that she was shot down and died in some pow camp
OMG I WATCHED THAT TOO
Amazing 🙌
I seen this when it first came out 3 years ago.
Nice
Haha
American humbug from "A team of investigators from History Channel". The photo was published in a Japanese tourist magazine in 1935. Two year before Amelia plunged into the Pacific ...
There is a video where a young girl who would sit in front of her radio with pad and pen (ready to write down songs she liked) that heard Amelia making a plea for help. That Noonan was hurt badly. She wrote down word for word what she heard coming from her radio. Noonan was out of his mind trying to grab the radio from her. An expert stated that it was possible with technical reasons why. So how could she be making a may day call hurt and then be sitting on a dock healthy?
You raise a good question. I think these investigators make a "good guess" or reasonable hypothesis as to the identity of the individuals in the photograph. If it's not Earhart & Noonan, who else could it be?
4°41'28"s-174°29'39"w zoom in on these coordinates
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The photo is from a Japanese book published in 1935, two years before Earhart even went missing.
What book?
How do you know??
TehSpirit buzzfeed
Why do people post comments like this and never answer questions? What book?
SPCLPONY THERES A BUZZFEED EPISODE
Too bad that photo was taken in 1935 and she was lost back in 1937 😐
Somebody had to tell them 😁
If you'll notice the woman they claim is Amelia, the hair is too dark. Amelia's was lighter.
@@JaneDoe-si7ht it's a black and white photo bro
@@siahmackay9083 There's lots of photos of Amelia in black and white. Her hair isn't that dark in any of them. Even in photos on this video.
@@siahmackay9083 Not a "bro".
In the mean time, IT is clear, that this same picture was made 1935. Earhart disappeared in 1937. On that picture cannot be Earhart! She did her trip years later.
157-337 (LOP) was one of the last things Amelia said over the radio, there are two 157-337 (compass and true heading) which one was she referring to? There are also two 67 degrees ( compass and true heading) and both are located north of Howland Island, 67 degrees true heading (sunrise) is 11 degrees north of Howland and 67 degree compass heading (76.54 degree true heading) is approximately 1.5 degrees north of Howland. So which 67 degrees is the 157-337 LOP based on?
All I can say is wow!
Finally something actually related to history on the history channel
That photo was published in a Japanese magazine two years before Earhardt went missing, so it couldn't be her.
Well done! ✈✈✈✈✈
Great investigation.
Very compelling.
Photo already proven not to be Amelia and Fred...But, I still think that they met their demise at the hands of the Japanese.
I read somewhere this photograph was taken before we were at war with Japan
Chris Watters: Yes....its from a "travel guidebook" published in 1935.
unfortunately this photograph has already been shown to have been taken around ten years too early for it to be Earhart. It existed in a japanese archive.
Just reminded how much I do NOT miss Matt Lauer!
No surprise, History Channel got it WRONG. This is a 1935 photo from a Japanese travel book.
The photo was not her, and taken and in a book before she even left... Talk about fakenews.
WOW!!!!
Debunked, picture was taken in 1935 from a Japanese tourist guide
Wow!!
What a Twist!
As soon as I heard "former FBI agent" I knew this claim is a lie.
PS. AND THAT IS NO disrespect to THE LATE MS. Earhart!! may she "soon" RIP. 💚💚
Wow
Finally there bringing this to light after all these years a true aviator a hero to many woman but to all pilots then and now and to her and Newnan's family thank you for making them courageous and sorry for the losses after so many years they can also see the light at the end of the tunnel for the truth and hopefully will know why it was kept a secret after so many years !! God Bless
Can't believe this is still airing. This is 100% false. The picture was taken in 1935, Amelia went missing in 1937.
If it was them, then why aren't they being guarded by the Japanese? They are just sitting and standing there like the other folk on the dock.
Ylva Bjarnson Because on the beginning the Japanese were quite courteous..things changed after arrival at Saipan
besides, theyre on an island, where they gonna go?
good point
This is so sad how her life ended all alone with no one knowing the truth !!! Only god knows now!!!! Rip Amelia gone to soon and so suddenly!!!
Cyndi Gomez shhhh
Some one know something
Except I thought after more investigations of that photo they found it was published in a Japanese journal/ newspaper before the date of earhart and Noonan dissapeared. I heard that somewhere.
Too bad this is a photo published in book in Japan in 1935, two years before Amelia and Fred went missing on July 2, 1937. 😳😔🤪
Have You done the re-search yourself or are you just another brainwashed American.
Yeah, that photo was taken two years before she went missing. It has been shown to be true.
Great story. Pity someone found a book with that photo in taken 2 years before they disappeared!
The foto was officiële taken 3 years before she went missing!!!
I read about this. This photo was taken before she dissapeared. The odds of her not getting lost are very high. She was trying to find a postage stamp..
No date on the photo try again
*rolls eyes*
This photo was taken in 1935 which was two years before Amelia's dissapearence
where's your proof?
Its convenient that files are always missing with these stories, did a dog eat them or something.
Mr Banana the papers accidentally walked themselves to a shredder
Shawn Sheehan Wait til 2037 files should be released then..
This picture appeared in a book in 1935, 2 years before Earhart's flight. Obviously it's not Earhart.
whats the name of the book?
Sure, right, uh-huh. What book? You can’t just make a statement like that without backing it up. So, we discount your comment as totally false and without merit.
@@WeGoWalk read the news about it. The book was published in 1935. This is old news that was discovered to be bogus.
What book?
@@brianmachado4533 all you have to do is Google. www.google.com/amp/s/relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/2017/07/amelia-earhart-lost-photograph-discredited-spd
Wow! Interesting !I'd like to know what really happened to her, she was related to my grandfather George Earhart he was from Kansas City! I remember my grandmother n my mother always speaking to me about Amelia wanting to become a pilot, I didn't really know who she was but my mom always said, grandmother told her , we 're related to Amelia Earhart, I had an aunt nicknamed Tootsie looked alot like Amelia Eahart! Grandpa's grandparents were from Bravia Germany emigrated to Kansas, the German last name was erhardt later changed to Earhart.
wow
Im hooked
This isn't new information. I saw a documentary where they showed this photo more than a year ago.
Makes more sense. Very intriguing
Just a question..... would a pair of “prisoners” especially ones deemed to be spys be allowed to casually sit on the edge of a dock pier? Un guarded and with no visible restraints? They would surely be chained/ cuffed and be under strict armed guard observation? Looks to much like a tourists holiday photo to me? Interesting though! Best wishes all
if you squint real hard you can see oswald
Luuucy, you got some splannin to do.
She took off from Lae, Papua New Guinea enroute to Howland island, an uninhabited island between Australia and Hawaii
That photo was from a Japanese tourist catalog from 1935. Long before her flight.
Wrong. That was disproven
After the photo was first shown on American Media purporting to show Earhart & Noonan on a dock in the Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands in 1937, a Japanese researcher began studying the photo & found the exact photo in a Japanese coffee table book listing the date of the photo as 1935, two years before they began their flight! What’s more, he determined that if the photo was indeed taken in 1937, the dock would have been crawling with Japanese Soldiers!
The pier wasn't built until 1936. Truk wasn't built up until 1939. They picked them up off Gardner Island.
I would love to hear more about her. How old was she
Gail Jackson-Chapman: She was born in July 1897 so when she disappeared she would have been almost 40 years old.
@@paganphil100 thank for the information❤️
It's not right the photo was taken two years before she got in that plane
This great story just got more interesting
I'm not convinced. There's just one very big question. If the Japanese thought that Amelia and Fred where spy's, where are the guards, why are they allowed to run around on the dock without those guards and why aren't they in hand cuffs or in restraints. I'm not going for the photo or this version of the story. Sorry, just me.
there isnt enough detail in that photo to tell weather the people are Caucasian much less who they are.
Kevin Okey The photo is only one of several taken,it and others were sufficient confirmation that AE and FW were there..ONI had confirmed their capture via intercepting radio messages..US had few spies in area and this was best they could do under circumstances with 1930s tech..Supposedly person who took photo was also executed as a spy..AE and FW arent seen being guarded as Japanese were initially courteous things changed after arrival in Saipan..wait for files to be released in 2037
Big dog They were on an island. Where were they going to go?
Right you are.
whether.
i would love it to be true... but the "male caucasian" doesn't look white at all?? if theyre reaching on that then kinda ruins the whole story
PHOTO WAS LATER PROVEN TO HAVE BEEN TAKEN IN 1935, TWO YEARS PRIOR TO HER DISAPPEARANCE.
Awesome amazing beautiful people amazing beautiful places ❤
I still believe she was captured by the Japanese but this photo was taken 2 years before she disappeared
But towards the end of this video the guy quoted a formal statement made by USMC intelligence officer who served in the Pacific said in the early 70's that they have no doubt that Amelia died in Saipan. So someone had a clear knowledge of her where abouts during that time.
That’s a photo that predates the loss of Earhart by a few years. This is nonsense.
Photo found to be in book published in 1935. See article here: www.google.com/amp/s/relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/2017/07/amelia-earhart-lost-photograph-discredited-spd
Interesting. Apparently, this picture was published in 1935. The evidence she died on Gardner Island is compelling given the artifacts, etc.
No, that picture was from 1935 tour brochure.Totally debunked.
Best change those history books!
Not so fast. Chances are it isn't her.
What chances? How many white "woman flyers" wearing pants were in that area around that time? Probably one.
Brandon Simmons the seated figure looks too much like others in the picture. is it even a woman?
Wow,! This photo was found 2 years before she even took her flight..
That’s what I was going to say. This photo was kicked out of the running for anything important when it was revealed it was out of a book from several years before she even started her flight-- so why WHY do we keep hearing about this???
@@zettemueller3560 good question! After watching this video I found another. Some Peace's of her kind of plane was found near an island.. Tighar is name on the video and what he found.
LOL caption says "Les spent 150 years looking". Really? LMAO.
The experts were 100% wrong as the picture was proved to be two years before she crashed.
TIGHAR currently has the best leads on the Earhardt mystery. It looks like she ditched on an atoll off Nikumauroro Island and died there as a castaway.
Stalicone: Yes....and radio transmissions from her were picked up for days after she disappeared. She wasn't sure where they were but she said they were on a reef near the wreck of a ship called Norwich City (which was wrecked at Nikumauroro Island, previously known as Gardner island). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Norwich_City
Ask the Japanese?? Someone somewhere knows something- maybe info has been past down through the decades !!!
I like to think that she and the guy she flew with went to an island and lived a happy life together. This video is too tragic for me to handle