™ Books That Change America's History

The Hunt
For Amelia Earhart
America's Greatest Search
-- By Douglas Westfall --

A First Person Account of America's History:
The Sixteen Day Search for the Noted Aviatrix Amelia Earhart
And How She Disappeared.

The Hunt for Amelia Earhart

The Story of 9 ships, 66 aircraft, & 3,000 men,
searched 260,000 square miles of open sea after she disappeared
on July 2^nd of 1937 over the vast Pacific Ocean.

Within this book you will find over 100 charts and maps, 150 photographs plus numerous cards, letters, articles, and ephemera from the Earhart search. Taken from the 200 page official US Navy reports which trace the movements of the USCGC Itasca, USS Colorado, USS Lexington, USS Ontario, USS Swan, USS Lamson,  USS Cushing, & USS Drayton -- plus reports from the British ship HMS Achilles and the tramp British freighter MV Moorby, as they tracked the south Pacific while on the Earhart search, 70 years ago.  Seven first person accounts fill in the story from the men who were there in 1937, through their words, letters, and  over 100 previously unpublished photos.

In Formation
Aircraft ready to spread out while on the search from the USS Lexington.

View the flight tracks as up to 62 aircraft at a time, plow the Pacific searching for the lost aviators and their downed Lockheed Electra airplane.

Plane Guard Duty
One of the Mehan Destroyers seen from the deck of the USS Lexington.

Follow the track of the Lexington with three US Destroyers through rain squalls, ready to rescue any downed search aircraft in the sea.

On Flight Quarters
The USS Lexington making ready to launch aircraft on the search.

See the aircraft on the deck of the USS Lexington as it follows a four-hour flight plan to cover up to 42,000 square miles in one flight.

Index references cover more than 25 aircraft, 70 ships, 80 islands, and 165 people providing complete cross references of the Earhart Search. Over 60 pages of archival art, ephemera, photos, charts, and records from the National Archives.

This is Douglas Westfall, and I write and publish books on America's History. I always research from the real people of our America through their first person accounts. This brings the realism of the events to our books, while the illustrations provide the graphic story of our America's history -- these are Books That Change America's History. The Hunt for Amelia Earhart America's Greatest Search -- How She Disappeared --

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