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what were inttresting incidents?

2007-03-22 10:34:33 · 1 answers · asked by cami_eats_ramen 2 in Arts & Humanities History

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Earhart worked as a military nurse in Canada during World War I and as a social worker in Denison House, Boston, after the war. She achieved fame on June 17-18, 1928, as the first woman to cross the Atlantic, although she was only a passenger. She married the publisher George P. Putnam in 1931 but continued her career under her maiden name.

Determined to justify the renown that her 1928 crossing had brought her, Earhart crossed the Atlantic alone on May 20-21, 1932. This soon led to a series of flights across the U.S. and drew her into the movement that encouraged the development of commercial aviation. She also took an active part in efforts to open aviation to women and end male domination in the new field.

In January 1935 she made a solo flight from Hawaii to California, a longer distance than from the U.S. to Europe. Earhart was the first person to fly that hazardous route successfully; all previous attempts had ended in disaster. She set out in 1937 to fly around the world, with Fred Noonan of the U.S. as her navigator, in a twin-engine Lockheed Electra. After completing more than two-thirds of the distance, her plane vanished in the central Pacific near the International Date Line. Although her mysterious disappearance has since raised many questions and much speculation about the events surrounding it, the facts remain largely unknown. Soaring Wings, a biography written by her husband, appeared in 1939.

2007-03-23 05:03:13 · answer #1 · answered by Retired 7 · 0 0

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