Here is a piece of information that might be of interest to all such researchers and others interested in the Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan mystery: Even if others have looked here before, try again looking on Saipan if you are looking for their remains. A very close relative of mine recalled a first-hand account to me several times that seems to have some thread of truth to it. He told me and others that as a young man in 1937 on Saipan, he and a group of others saw a White (American) woman and a male companion taken prisoner by the Japanese authorities. As the two were brought down from the ship and into plain sight, he and the other observers were under armed guard. The Japanese Troops ordered all of them to “bow low” and avert their eyes and not to look at these “secret” prisoners.
Human nature being what it is, he glanced time and time again at this most unusual sighting of two Americans being led under guard on Saipan Island. He saw them clearly.
He was 23 at the time and working at the Japanese seaport (now the CPA Saipan Seaport) moving drums of water for a Japanese company that took water from the spring to the port. That dock area is where he saw the two white people under guard. He couldn’t say that the Americans he saw were Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan. He couldn’t say for sure what happened to them. But it makes sense to me that the prisoners, whoever they were, were either killed here on Saipan or sent on to Japan for questioning. If killed here, their remains might still be found. Where did they bury prisoners during that time?
So bring your researchers and your squads of investigators and mystery detectives to Saipan and take a look for the remains here. Wherever they crashed, they would have been brought to the main headquarters of Imperial Japan here on Saipan. Maybe they can put the Earhart mystery to rest once and for all. Or maybe not.
REP. STANLEY
MCGINNIS TORRES
17th CNMI Legislature
