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Irene Craigmile Bolam (born Irene Madalaine O'Crowley; October 1, 1904 – July 7, 1982) was an American banker and resident of Monroe Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 1970, a book that was soon widely discredited set forth an allegation that she was Amelia Earhart .
Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan. Speculation on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan has continued since their disappearance in 1937. After the largest search and rescue attempt in history up to that time, the U.S. Navy concluded that Earhart and Noonan ditched at sea after their plane ran out of fuel; this "crash and sink theory" is the most widely accepted explanation.
In November 2006, National Geographic Channel aired an episode of its series Undiscovered History that supposed Earhart survived the world flight, changed her name, remarried, and became Irene Craigmile Bolam. This claim had originally been published in the book Amelia Earhart Lives (1970), which is based on the research of Joseph Gervais. [186]
In his 1966 book The Search for Amelia Earhart, San Francisco radio newscaster Fred Goerner, who died in 1994, laid out a case that Earhart had been captured by the Japanese. After failing to find ...
An ocean exploration company took a sonar image of an object that resembled Amelia Earhart’s missing plane in January. New imaging confirmed it was a rock formation. They thought they’d found ...
The mystery of where pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart’s plane went missing has haunted the world for decades.. In January, ocean exploration company Deep Sea Vision suggested the search might ...
In 1991, Kelley told a reporter investigating the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, that she had survived the war and that he had been ordered by Francis Joseph Spellman to repatriate her to the United States, where she lived as Irene Craigmile Bolam. [8] He died at Ocean Medical Center on September 11, 1996. [4]
The Deep Sea Vision team was out to solve the greatest aviation mystery of all: the disappearance of Amelia Earhart on July 2, 1937, during her epic flight around the world.