In Memory of Amelia Earhart
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In July, exactly 22 years had passed since the famous Ameri can air-woman, Amelia Earhart, accompanied by the American airman, Fred J. Noonan, dis appeared near the equator, in the South Pacific Ocean. USA authorities had constructed an airstrip for her landing, on Howland Island and on July 2, 1927, she left Lae, New Guinea, for Howland. The two fliers were never seen again.
In the following year, the beacon at the Howland Inland airfield was named Earhart Light, in memory of the aviatrix; and this old photograph shores a group of Americans who placed the memorial plate there.
The Howland Island airstrip is not now serviceable.