With all due respects to the Discovery Channel and reporter Rossella Lorenzi, nothing new in the Gardner Island searches has produced any credible evidence of the Earhart loss.

Hilary Swank’s recent “Amelia” did not even attempt to provide any answers to what actually happened to the famous “lady lindy”.

I lived in Saipan for 13 years through the 90's and into mid 2000. Having lived there so long, I heard stories about Amelia Earhart being executed on the Island of Saipan.

Amelia is a currently released 2009 dramatized biographical film of the life of Amelia Earhart, starring Hilary Swank as Earhart along with a cast that includes Richard Gere, Christopher Eccleston and Ewan McGregor.

Carol Linn Dow, screenwriter for the movie project, "The Lost Flight of Amelia Earhart," spent ten years intensely researching the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan. Dow's compelling screenplay paved the way for her to write the book, "The Lost Flight of Amelia Earhart."

On a stormy day in June 1928, the Fokker tri-motor Friendship dipped down out of a leaden sky to land in the bay near Burry Port, Wales. The airship taxied through the pouring rain to a nearby buoy and cut its engines.

In July 1936 Amelia took delivery of a Lockheed L-10E Electra financed by Purdue University and started planning a round-the-world flight. This would not be the first to circle the globe, but would be the longest at 29,000 miles (47,000 km) since it would follow a grueling equatorial route.

The reminiscences of Chief Radioman Leo G. Bellarts on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart on his watch, 2 July 1937, Howland Island

The Operational Archives Branch of the Naval Historical Center has placed the following records relating to Amelia Earhart on microfilm.

Amelia Earhart was born on 24 July 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. Her flying career began in Los Angeles in 1921 when, at age 24, she took flying lessons from Neta Snook and bought her first airplane-- a Kinner Airstar.