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    THE SEARCH CONTINUES

    Mar 01, 2019 3 minutes
    by Will Bremen

    Amelia Earhart was one of the most famous Americans in the world in 1937. The news of her disappearance on July 2 shocked people. When she didn’t show up at Howland Island, the U.S. Navy launched “the most systematic and careful search [it] ever undertook.”

    The U.S. Navy immediately ordered ships carrying planes to the area. Ships were sent from the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and from ports in California. It took them several days to reach the area around Howland Island. British and Japanese ships in

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