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Comment on Installment No. 5 of Devine’s “Bring Me Home” by William H. Trail
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<p>Greetings to All:</p>
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<p>Not to backtrack, but Installment #4 of "Bring Me Home" contained a brief reference to Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal's appointment calendar on or about 22 July 1944 that he received a telephone call from Ambassador Joseph C. Grew, who served as U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 1932 until repatriation in June1942. No details about the call are provided. Devine opines that the call may have been about the on-going events on Saipan vis-a-vis Amelia Earhart. It may have been, and it may not. We simply don't have enough information in this particular instance to positively conclude that AE was the topic discussed. I find it interesting that, in neither Grew's own book, "Ten Years In Japan," or Steve Kemper's "Our Man In Tokyo" is there any reference to Amelia Earhart. The omission is glaring, and in it's own way informative.</p>
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<p>All best,</p>
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<p>William</p>
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9.3.2025 21:37Comment on Installment No. 5 of Devine’s “Bring Me Home” by William H. Trail
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<p><strong>Longtime reader David Atchason has asked me to post the following comment for him./Mike</strong></p>
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<p>Michiko may have been instructed by the Japanese to tell her account of what her father said. By now I think the Japanese are comfortable with the inference that she died in their captivity rather than some more elaborate story of her possibly being taken to Tokyo where she sat out the war in relative comfort. It is interesting to read that an American warship was keeping an eye on her arrival on Saipan. Why not? What were the Japanese going to do about it, anyway?</p>
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<p>Why wasn’t it ever reported in the MSM that many soldiers had seen Amelia’s plane on Saipan? What difference does it make if it was destroyed by 6 men? Many soldiers must have wondered where it went but if someone announced that it had been scrapped because it had some problem that was not worth repairing because of faulty maintenance, so what? They’re going to silence the 6 men that scrapped it? What did the six men see they weren’t supposed to?</p>
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<p>Dave</p>
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9.3.2025 15:48Comment on Installment No. 5 of Devine’s “Bring Me Home” by earharttruth
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<p>Fascinating reading Mike- thanks. One can palpably feel Devine's frustration by reading his words. The Nikumaroro debacles must have really gotten under his skin, when he knew, unlike the general public, that they did not doe on this island. There certainly were some mysterious deaths attributed to this incident. And you have to ponder what did happen to Michiko Sugata...silenced by the Japanese government? Possibly killed to keep her quiet? Forrestal's death without a doubt is very suspicious. Just to hide the truth concerning the fate of 2 people who wanted to set an aviation record? I realize this was a different time they lived in, but </p>
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8.3.2025 15:07Comment on Installment No. 5 of Devine’s “Bring Me Home” by dave kapsiak
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<p>Longtime reader David Atchason has asked me to post the following comment for him./Mike</p>
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<p>Reading Thomas Devine's take on Amelia's plane's existence on Saipan I find a discrepancy. This one is where there is a parade at Aslito field for the dignitaries and her plane is on display as it were. It sounds like "the word" was, it was her plane alright, even though probably no soldier there would have known the ID number. This isn't the same story as her plane located in a heavily guarded hangar, to be brought out after dark, maybe, to be destroyed. Of course, any men witnessing her plane, </p>
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<p>Devine included, would naturally have assumed she landed on Saipan, especially if they saw the plane flying around later. We all understand by now that there was no rational attempt to make her landing on Howland I. foolproof, as they could easily have set up a radio beacon, since they had already spent lots of dough preparing a landing field. Stationing the Itasca there was merely cosmetic for the benefit of the misleading government narrative. </p>
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<p>It was probably Baruch and Westover who gave Amelia her final orders. She was well aware that the govt. was paying for this flight and she was being given the orders to safely land at the only functional field for land based planes accessible from Lae. So then the ONI induces some Saipan native woman to tell Devine Amelia is buried over here, no, over there, maybe. He writes a very well written book about his experiences. I don't know Devine's education and background but I always thought as a "lowly" postal clerk he does a suspiciously professional job at writing his book. </p>
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<p>Maybe he was just that good, a "natural" writer. Anyway we are set up to conclude Amelia died on Saipan. I think her flight was a "back door" communication with Japanese officals using a woman who was on familiar terms with FDR and his wife. David</p>
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4.3.2025 02:39Comment on Installment No. 4 of Devine’s “Bring Me Home” by earharttruth
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