“Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Last”

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This book, published June 21, proves beyond a reasonable doubt, with overwhelming documentation, that Amelia Earhart died on the Japanese-held island of Saipan in 1937.

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Toward the end of their flight around the world, Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan missed Howland Island, landed on Mili Atoll in the Marshall Islands, were picked up by a Japanese fishing boat, transferred to the Japanese ship Koshu, taken first to Jaluit and then by seaplane to Kwajalein, later to Saipan.

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On Saipan the two American fliers were seen and described by many local people as they were led–naked at least once–through the streets and during the time they were housed in the local jail and hotel by the Japanese military. Earhart made friendly though tired gestures (she had developed dysentery) toward local women through the bars of her cell, giving one of them a pearl ring.

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This book examines details of Earhart’s last flight that suggest the flier may have purposely missed Howland Island, and convincingly debunks theories that her plane sank without a trace. Instead there are upward of 100 “traces” that indicate Earhart and Noonan survived the flight in Japanese custody on Saipan.

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There are official statements and documents that place Earhart and Noonan on Saipan. There are witnesses at every step, providing hundreds of chunks of evidence. Admiral Nimitz said Earhart landed in the Marshalls and was taken to Saipan. A Marine general and a Marine Corps commandant both testified that Earhart “perished” on Saipan.

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In the mid-1980s, an old Saipanese woman told researcher T.C. “Buddy” Brennan of her indelible childhood memory, seeing the “white woman with a man’s haircut” marched out to a field, made to dig her own grave and forced to kneel at the edge of it. She watched horrified as the woman was shot in the chest, falling backwards into the grave. A Japanese woman, Michiko Sugita, who as an 11-year-old on Saipan was the daughter of the civilian chief of police, claimed her father told her that Amelia was shot as a spy.

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So we can say with certainty after reading Truth at Last that Amelia Earhart met a tragic end on Saipan. As for Fred Noonan, several Saipanese said the navigator was beheaded with a samurai sword a day or two later when he angered a Japanese guard.

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Truth at Last traces in detail the various searches for the Earhart gravesite on the island, and Campbell reveals, thanks to new research findings and analysis, precisely where and when he believes Amelia and Noonan’s remains were found.

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Earhart’s Lockheed Electra was seen by several people after Aslito Airfield, Saipan, was captured by American forces in the summer of 1944. Three Marines watched secretly as other Marines doused the plane with gasoline, and an American fighter plane flew overhead to ignite it with machine gun fire. In the White House, a young messenger, or page, allegedly heard the order to destroy the plane come from the lips of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He reported this life-altering experience to a Saipan veteran many decades later.

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There is even a possibility that ex-Secretary of War James V. Forrestal was murdered because of his knowledge about the destruction of the Electra.

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The theory that Earhart was the “Tokyo Rose” of radio fame came from a misunderstanding of the term, which, applied to her, meant only that the Japanese considered her a spy. The preposterous chestnut that she became Irene Bolam, a housewife in New Jersey, is explained and discarded. The truths this book documents do not depend on three pieces of a pocket-knife, fragments of a jar of freckle cream or the heel of a woman’s shoe from the 1930s (a shoe 3 sizes too big for Earhart) on a deserted island to prove its case.

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Campbell’s clear, straightforward 460-page account, with many hundreds of footnotes, is based on 20 years of research and interviews. It is exhaustive but far from exhausting. Above all, it is convincing — if for no other reason than because Mike Campbell and the other researchers on whose shoulders he stands, in contrast to the United States military and the Japanese military, have no secrets to protect.

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The sobering reality is that every scrap of evidence found, her briefcase, her journal, photos, skeletal remains, was turned over to the appropriate American authorities — and never seen again. Campbell even presents interviews with former American intelligence operatives who have seen, firsthand, the smoking gun evidence of Earhart and Noonan’s presence and deaths on Saipan.

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In light of the facts, the continued reference by knowledgeable sources to the disappearance of Earhart and Noonan as a “mystery” can lead the reader to only one disturbing conclusion: the mystery has long been solved but the “mystery” is still being perpetuated by a massive, 75-year long cover-up at the highest levels of our government.

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Note: I was unaware of Campbell’s book when I posted “What mystery? She died on Saipan!”  https://hiddeninjesus.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/amelia-earhart-what-mystery-she-died-on-saipan/ even though in it I quoted its author (http://www.mvariety.com/cnmi/cnmi-news/letters-to-the-editor/45684-amelia-earhart-died-on-saipan.php). Mr. Campbell “stumbled upon” my post and was kind enough to download the book to me with the following link which lays out more of this enlightening information. www.EarhartTruth.com