From the FWIW department:

The father of my best friend was in the Marines during WWII. He came
upon a Japanese 'pill box' in the Philippines which was stocked with
numerous documents and US money. Most surprisingly, he found a
photograph of Emilia Earhart, standing in front of her plane with
Japanese officers and soldiers next to her. She was smiling in the
picture. He exclaimed in excitement, "Hey, it's Emilia Earhart!". At
that moment an officer grabbed the picture from his hand and gave it to
what he believes was a US intelligence officer who was waiting to see
what they found in the pill box. My friend's father never saw the
picture again or heard anything about what happened to it.

While on the Philippine island, he also became aware of a two engine
aircraft similar to Earhart's 'Electra', which was being stored in a
remote area of the air base, under a large camouflage net. He asked an
officer what it was and was told not to go near it because it was booby
trapped by the Japanese. Some time later the plane was flown from the
air base to who knows where.

Since first hearing this story more than thirty years ago, I've wondered
too what happened to that picture. If it was authentic, either somebody
has got some explaining to do, or it may have been a fake made by the
Japanese for propaganda purposes. I doubt we will ever know the truth.
As for the plane, the booby trap story may have been a cover story to
keep people away from it.

BTW- The loop antenna on top of Earhart's plane was for direction
finding a radio signal from it's transmitter source. This was one way
they used to navigate in those days. Earhart left behind the long
trailing wire antenna that could have been used to receive the MW
(500-Khz) signal because she wanted to reduce the aircraft weight for
the long flight to Howland island. The HF (shortwave) frequencies were
3105 and 6210-Khz.



SR wrote:

PBS had a documentary on the life of Emailia Earhart. It showed the
airplane she used. The airplane had a small loop antenna above the head
of the airplane. And I believe a saw a 2-3 vertical antenna behind the
loop antenna.

Does anyone have any information on the types of radios she was using?
Or the radio bands she was transmitting on?

PBS mention that she left behind a 500 khz wire antenna. Somehow she
did make radio contact with a US ship in the Pacific before disappearing.

73, SR

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