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A piece of aluminum shrapnel found which may have came from Amelia's plane

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Photo given by her mother

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After her second transatlantic flight, Earhart continued to set out on record-breaking trips. Only two months after returning to America in June 1932, she became the first woman to fly solo across the North American continent and back. She also found…

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An image of Amelia in front of Electra, the plane used for her final flight

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Frank Hawks (1897–1938) took Amelia Earhart on her first airplane ride in 1921. An ex-Army officer, he worked at an airstrip in Los Angeles, where he gave flying lessons and performed stunts in local air shows. Although the flight excited her, she…

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Amelia Earhart Putnam Aviatrix, George Palmer Putnam, Publisher & husband of Amelia Earhart.

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Accompanied by her husband, George Palmer Putnam, Amelia Earhart, only solo flier of both Atlanic and Pacific oceans, arrived in New York after an airplane flight across the continent.

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George Palmer Putnam & wife, Explorer & Publisher, Amelia Earhart Putnam Aviatrix

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This photograph shows Earhart’s arrival in New York City on June 20, 1932. Thousands waited to see her. Mayor James Walker greeted her with a large bouquet of red roses and rode with her up Broadway amid confetti and tickertape to City Hall. There,…

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Amelia Earhart, dressed in flying suit, standing on steps on left side of nose of her Lockheed 5B Vega amidst a crowd of people at Culmore, North Ireland after her historic solo flight across the Atlantic from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, c. May 21,…
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