What did you all think of the History Channel program? I didn't see the first 20 minutes or so, have to go back and try to find s evening. The actual evidence is somewhat thin but I never knew there were so many witnesses that claimed to have seen her in the Marshalls or Saipan. I never gave this theory that much credence because I just never saw how she could have possibly ended up in the Marshalls. But this explained how that was very possible. Interesting.
I thought it was well done. Some points:
Pro:
1. The photo was not faked, and it was pre-WWII.
2. It corresponds with the eyewitness accounts, including the ship that supposedly took the aircraft, the Koshu Maru.
3. There was evidence of some activity on the Jaluit.
4. The photo does look a lot like Fred Noonan.
5. There were contemporary accounts that Earhart had been captured.
6. Earhart's radio message regarding "251" could have referred to degrees and not miles.
Those for boost the theory. These don't.
7. The date of the photo is unknown. It could have been taken any time prior to 1942. The Koshu Maru was built in 1911 and sunk in 1945.
http://www.combinedfleet.com/koshu_c.htm
8. According to Wiki, the Koshu Maru was 1500 miles away, and an officer of the ship, interviewed in 1982, said that the ship never picked up Earhart, Noonan, and/or the plane. (I will concede that it may have been possible for another ship to have picked them up.)
9. People can look alike (it happened in the Gricar cast). I would need a height/proportion comparison for Noonan as well.