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Does A Newly Discovered Photo Show Amelia Earhart Survived A Crash Landing?

If the photo does show the missing pilot and her navigator, it would lend support to the theory that they went down in the Marshall Islands and were imprisoned. But the evidence isn't crystal clear.
A closer look at a recently unearthed photo shows a short-haired figure who could be aviator Amelia Earhart.

It has been 80 years since Amelia Earhart vanished while trying to become the first female pilot to fly around the world, and her 1937 disappearance has become one of the great mysteries of our time.

Now the makers of from the History Channel believe they have "the smoking gun" that answers the question of Earhart's disappearance aboard her Lockheed Electra once and for all: an found in the National Archives, showing a group of people on a dock in the Marshall Islands. Among the figures: two

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