Hawaii; in Lockheed Electra.
1937, July 3: Record flight around the world at the equator; with
navigator Fred J. Noonan; in Lockheed Electra; covered a
distance of 22,000 miles, until strange disappearance over the
Pacific somewhere between Lae, New Guinea, and Howland Island.
_AWARDS AND DECORATIONS_
City of Chicago: medal presented by Mayor Cermak, 1932.
City of New York: medal of valor presented by Mayor Walker, 1928.
City of New York: mayor’s committee medal; presented by Mayor Walker,
1932.
City of Toledo: medal presented 1928.
Atlantic City: key.
City of Philadelphia: medal presented by mayor, 1928.
City of Pittsburgh: key.
Mexico: Order of the Aztec Eagle; medal with blue center and crest;
gold ribbon and lapel pin.
French Legion of Honor; with lapel pin.
Belgium Order of Leopold; with lapel pin.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts: medal presented, 1928.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts: medal presented, 1932.
Aero Club Royal de Belgique: medal presented, 1932.
Aero Club de France: medal presented, 1932.
Women’s Roosevelt Memorial Association: medallion presented, 1933.
Le Lyceum Société des Femmes de France of New York: medallion
presented, 1928.
Le Comité France-Amérique: medallion presented, 1932.
Distinguished Flying Cross: medal presented by the Congress of the
United States, 1932.
Columbia Broadcasting System: medallion presented, 1932.
Mexico: Union de Mujeres-Americanas: medal presented, 1935.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers: medal presented, 1929.
American National Geographic Society Award: medal presented by
President Hoover, 1932.
United States Flyers Association: member.
Poor Richard Club, Philadelphia: member.
Ciudad de Mexico: medal presented, 1935.
Sociedad Mexicana de Geografia y Estadistica: medal presented, 1935.
Society of Women Geographers: medal presented, 1932.
Chicago Aircraft Show, 1928.
International Civil Aeronautics Conference, 1928.
Brooklyn Rotary Club.
National Air Races: 1926.
International Shrine of the Birdmen: Mission Inn, California.
Badge with picture of Amelia Earhart, Lou Gordon, and Wilmer Stultz.
Two medals with picture of Amelia Earhart on the converse side and a
seaplane on the reverse side.
Kansas Commonwealth Club.
Atlantic City: freedom of the city.
Boy Scouts of America; Medford, Massachusetts, Council: medal
presented, 1928.
City of Toledo: key.
City of Buffalo: key.
Lafayette Flying Corps: medal.
Breakfast Club, Glendale, California: medal presented, 1928.
Lindbergh medal: presented in 1928.
Medal presented by Amelia Cardenas to Amelia Earhart: 1935.
City of Medford, Massachusetts: medal presented, 1928.
Harmon Trophy: presented in 1937; shared jointly with Jean Batten of
Australia.
N.B. These awards and decorations, in addition to many other
memorabilia, can be seen on display at the National Air Museum,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. The display was made possible
by: Purdue University, the Amelia Earhart Post of the American Legion
at Los Angeles, California, Amy Otis Earhart, Amelia’s mother, and AE’s
friends.
_BIBLIOGRAPHY_
Only major works are listed and they have been subdivided into books
and periodicals. The unsigned articles from magazines are listed
alphabetically according to title.
A. BOOKS
ALLEN, FREDERICK LEWIS. _Only Yesterday._ New York: Harper and
Brothers, 1931.
BALCHEN, BERNT. _Come North with Me._ New York: E. P. Dutton, 1958.
BYRD, RICHARD. _Skyward._ New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1928.
COCHRAN, JACQUELINE. _The Stars at Noon._ Boston: Little, Brown and
Company, 1954.
DE LEEUW, ADELE LOUISE. _Story of Amelia Earhart._ New York: Grosset,
1955.
EARHART, AMELIA. _20 Hrs., 40 Min. Our Flight in the_ Friendship. New
York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1928.
----. _The Fun of It._ New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932.
----. _Last Flight._ Arranged by George Palmer Putnam. New York:
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1937.
FORD, COREY. _Coconut Oil._ New York: Brewer, Warren and Putnam, 1931.
GARST, DORIS SHANNON. _Amelia Earhart: Heroine of the Skies._ New
York: Julian Messner, 1947.
HOWE, JAMES MOORE. _Amelia Earhart: Kansas Girl._ New York: Bobbs,
Merrill, 1950.
LINDBERGH, CHARLES A. _The Spirit of St. Louis._ New York: Charles
Scribner’s Sons, 1953.
NICHOLS, RUTH. _Wings for Life._ Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott
Company, 1958.
PUTNAM, GEORGE PALMER. _Soaring Wings: A Biography of Amelia
Earhart._ New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939.
----. _Wide Margins: A Publisher’s Autobiography._ New York:
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942.
RAILEY, HILTON H. _Touch’d with Madness._ New York: Carrick and
Evans, Inc., 1938.
B. PERIODICALS
BOYKIN, E. M. “Amelia Earhart at Home,” _Better Homes and Gardens_,
15:46–47, February, 1937.
DRAKE, F. and K. DRAKE. “First Lady of the Air,” _Reader’s Digest_,
58:55–59, May, 1951.
EARHART, AMELIA. “Try Flying Yourself,” _Cosmopolitan_, 85:32–35,
November, 1928.
----. “Vagabonding by Air,” _Cosmopolitan_, 85:28–31, December, 1928.
----. “How Fanny Hurst Could Learn to Fly,” _Cosmopolitan_, 86:56–57,
January, 1929.
----. “Is It Safe for You to Fly?” _Cosmopolitan_, 86:90–92,
February, 1929.
----. “Shall You Let Your Daughter Fly?” _Cosmopolitan_, 86:88–91,
March, 1929.
----. “Clouds,” _Cosmopolitan_, 86:86–87, April, 1929.
----. “Man Who Tells the Fliers: ‘Go!’” _Cosmopolitan_, 86:78–79,
May, 1929.
----. “Why Are Women Afraid to Fly?” _Cosmopolitan_, 87:70–72, July,
1929.
----. “Fly America First,” _Cosmopolitan_, 87:80–82, October, 1929.
----. “On the Floor of the Sea,” _Cosmopolitan_, 87:45–46, November,
1929.
----. “Aviation Moves Forward,” _Country Life_, 59:39, January, 1931.
----. “Flying the Atlantic,” _American Magazine_, 114:15–17, August,
1932.
EARHART, AMELIA. “My Flight from Hawaii,” _National Geographic
Magazine_, 67:593–609, May, 1935.
ELLIOTT, LAWRENCE. “Amelia Earhart’s Last Flight,” _Reader’s Digest_,
36:110–116, July, 1957.
MAYBIE, JANET. “Miss Earhart Sleeps as Her Shipmates Gossip,”
_Bookman_, 68:256, October, 1928.
----. “Amelia Earhart’s New Flight: Expedition into the Realm of
Academics,” _Christian Science Monitor Magazine_, April 29, 1936.
MCINTYRE, O. O. “I Want You to Meet a Real American Girl,”
_Cosmopolitan_, 85:21, November, 1928.
MCMULLEN, F. D. “First Women’s Air Derby,” _Woman’s Journal_,
14:10–11, October, 1929.
PERKINS, MARION. “Who Is Amelia Earhart?” _Survey_, 60:393, July 1,
1928.
PITMAN, JACK. “Amelia Earhart’s Last Flight,” _Coronet_, 39:122–125,
February, 1956.
PUTNAM, GEORGE PALMER. “Forgotten Husband,” _Pictorial Review_,
34:12–13, December, 1932.
----. “Flyer’s Husband,” _Forum_, 93:330–332, June, 1935.
----. “Lady with Wings: The Life Story of My Wife Amelia Earhart,”
_Liberty_, Vol. 16, Nos. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16; March 11, 18,
25; April 1, 8, 15, 22, 1939.
C. UNSIGNED ARTICLES
“Air-Hearted,” _Commonweal_, 16:116, June, 1932.
“Amelia Earhart: How Long a Mystery?” _The American Weekly_,
September 10, 1941.
“Amelia Earhart’s Record Flight from Hawaii to California,” _Literary
Digest_, 119:8, January 19, 1935.
“Appreciation,” _Commonweal_, 26:336, July 30, 1937.
“Collector’s Stamps to Pay for Round-world Trip,” _Newsweek_, 9:33,
February 20, 1937.
“Earhart Wrecks Ship After Setting an Ocean Record,” _Newsweek_,
9:27, March 27, 1937.
“First Woman to Fly 2,408 Miles Over the Pacific,” _Newsweek_, 5:20,
January 19, 1935.
“Good-will Emissary Again Achieves the Unusual,” _Newsweek_, 5:34,
May 18, 1935.
“Lady After Our Own Heart,” _Nation_, 135:202, September 7, 1932.
“Lost Earhart,” _Time_, 30:50–51, July 12, 1937.
“Mourning Becomes Electra,” _Time_, 29:36, March 29, 1937.
“Mrs. Putnam’s Four Wreaths of Laurel,” _Literary Digest_, 113:5,
June 4, 1932.
“One in a Million,” _Time_, 30:45–46, July 19, 1937.
“Philatelists Fly into Rage Over Flyer’s Stamp Corner,” _Newsweek_,
5:15, May 11, 1935.
“Search Abandoned,” _Time_, 30:36, July 26, 1937.
“Society’s Special Medal Awarded to Amelia Earhart,” _National
Geographic Magazine_, 62:358–367, September, 1932.
“Sticky Business,” _Nation_, 140:118, January 30, 1935.
“Stultz, Gordon, and Miss Earhart Cross the Atlantic in Pontooned
Fokker Aircraft,” _Aviation_, 24:1847, June 25, 1928.
“Thoroughbred,” _Scholastic_, 26:23, February 2, 1935.
“Warships and Planes Sweep Pacific for Lost Flyers,” _Newsweek_,
10:25, July 17, 1937.
“Woman Hops the Atlantic,” _Literary Digest_, 97:8–9, June 30, 1928.
_A NOTE ABOUT SOURCES_
In addition to the books and articles listed above there are also
countless newspaper accounts about the exploits of Amelia Earhart,
which are too numerous to be cited separately. Among the primary
sources are the files of the Boston _Herald_, the Boston _Traveller_,
the New York _Times_, and the New York _Herald Tribune_, both in the
original editions on file at The Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences
in New York and on microfilm. They began in 1928 with AE’s _Friendship_
Flight, then to 1932 and 1935, and finally through the tragic year of
1937.
The basic story of AE’s life can be found in her books and articles and
in George Putnam’s writings. GP had a keener eye for detail than AE:
where Amelia needs to be rewritten, George elicits admiration for his
skill; but this is true only for “ground operations.” In the air--for
the sights, sounds, smells, and sensations of flying--Amelia is the
master, although she is sometimes vague and often inconsistent. I am
indebted to GP for the ground story and to AE for the air story.
For most of the facts of the last flight--and many readers would wonder
how I came upon them, I found them in AE’s logs, which she sent home
with her other gear before the take-off from Lae, New Guinea. Some
of the logs are now at Purdue University; these and others GP used
for AE’s book _Last Flight_, which he arranged for publication. The
communications between AE and the _Itasca_ came from the cutter’s radio
log, which Commander W. K. Thompson included in his official report,
dated July 19, 1937. Some of the details of the Navy’s search were
obtained from the deposition of the _Lexington_’s commanding officer,
Captain Leigh Noyes, dated October 4, 1938, and from the affidavit of
Richard D. Black, dated November 22, 1938. These three documents are
in the possession of Clyde E. Holley, AE’s former attorney, in Los
Angeles, California.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
For most of the basic scenes and incidents in the story of Amelia
Earhart I am indebted to G. P. Putnam’s Sons and to Harcourt, Brace
and Company, whose books by Amelia Earhart and George Palmer Putnam
provided me with the beginning framework for my biography. From AE’s
_20 Hrs., 40 Min._, _The Fun of It_, and _Last Flight_ (arranged by
G. P. Putnam), from GP’s _Soaring Wings_ and _Wide Margins_, I have
carefully chosen events, transcribed letters, and quoted conversations.
In the conversations and letters I have taken liberties and
occasionally changed the word order and inserted synonyms, for it is my
belief that GP often made AE sound the way her public expected her to
sound. Expressions like “you betja,” “tummy,” and “grand” were not in
keeping with my interpretation of Amelia’s character and I did not use
them. GP, I believe, invented too freely.
I owe profound gratitude to the following persons, who wrote me
letters, showed me photographs, and/or told me anecdotes:
Mary Ahearn, Josephine B. Akiyama, Lois Allen, Bernt Balchen, R. S.
Barnaby, Elizabeth B. Brown, Howard Cady, Sidney Carroll, John F. B.
Carruthers, Lucy Challiss, Jessie R. Chamberlin, Jacqueline Cochran,
Thomas Coulson, Marjorie B. Davis, Anne M. Earhart, Paul Garber, Viola
Gentry, Betty Gillies, John Glennon, Lawrence Gould, Clyde E. Holley,
Clarence L. Johnson, Teddy Kenyon, Marvin MacFarland, Jan Mason, Ruth
Nichols, Blanche Noyes, Charles A. Pearce, Edward S. Pearce, Margaret
H. Putnam, Hilton H. Railey, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lauretta M. Schimmoler,
Ester Schlundt, Casimir R. Sheft, Manila Talley, Mark S. Waggener,
Bradford Washburn, Helen Hutson Weber, Edna Gardner Whyte, and Gilbert
L. Campbell.
For providing me with their Earhart materials and helping me in my
research I offer my deepest thanks to:
The Library, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado; the Staff and
the Bibliographical Center, Denver Public Library, Denver, Colorado;
the National Air Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.;
the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Institute
of Aeronautical Sciences, New York, New York; the Libraries, Purdue
University, Lafayette, Indiana; the Honnold Library, Claremont,
California; Robert Saudek Associates; and the Ford Foundation. And my
special acknowledgment to the finest librarians I have ever known:
Lieutenant Colonel George V. Fagan, Shirley Karol-chik, and Donald
J. Barrett, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado. For a clean
manuscript thanks to my typists, Beverly Bowman and Marie Rossignol.
For his invaluable assistance in working out the many navigation
problems of the last flight my sincere thanks to Captain Thomas E.
Pearsall, USAF Academy; and for their help in solving other difficult
flying problems, my appreciation to Major John R. Galt and Captain
Lawrence G. Campbell, also of USAFA.
Finally, for guidance and advice in writing and rewriting the
manuscript, from the first stages through the final drafts, I want
to thank John E. Williams, Harold M. Priest, Stuart B. James, Harvey
Gross, and Major Joseph B. Roberts. And for having had faith in me
from the beginning, four years ago, I want to express my profoundest
gratitude to Colonel Peter R. Moody, head, Department of English,
United States Air Force Academy. My deepest acknowledgment is on the
dedication page.
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_DAUGHTER OF THE SKY_
The Story of Amelia Earhart
by PAUL L. BRIAND, JR.
The full story of Amelia Earhart’s life--including an explanation of
the mystery of her disappearance and death--is told for the first time
in this biography. It is a story of her girlhood in Kansas, her college
years, her jobs as nurse and social worker, and her first adventures in
flying as well as of her later years of achievement and triumph.
It was almost by chance that Amelia Earhart became the first woman to
fly across the Atlantic. Overnight she found herself the most famous
girl in the world. That was her decisive hour. She felt she had to
prove worthy of her fame, to show the world that she was a great flier
by right, not just by luck. What happened is explained by Colonel
Railey in his Introduction:
“Genuinely as a tribute to her sex rather than for her own
glorification, she accepted the honors that accrued; for the
participation of women in aviation, which at all times she strove
to encourage and pace, was the obsession which lured her to her
death.”
Amelia Earhart went on to spectacular victories, setting up a flying
record that is still a marvel of achievement and that puts her in the
top rank of America’s hall of fame. A likable and modest woman, Amelia
Earhart was a skilled and dedicated air pioneer, a true daughter of the
sky, and her life story remains unique.
_Jacket design by Larry Lurin_
DUELL, SLOAN AND PEARCE
NEW YORK
[Illustration: PAUL L. BRIAND, JR.]
CAPTAIN PAUL L. BRIAND, JR., was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in
1920. He received his primary and secondary education at parochial,
private, and public schools in greater Boston, and his higher education
at Boston University, the University of New Hampshire (B.A., _cum
laude_, 1948), Columbia University (M.A., 1952), and the University of
Denver (Ph.D., 1959).
He began his military career as a naval aviation cadet, transferred
to the Army Air Forces where he earned the Air Medal as a combat crew
member in Europe during World War II, and was commissioned from college
as a Distinguished Military Graduate, Air Force ROTC, into the regular
Air Force.
Initially a public-relations officer, Captain Briand became an English
instructor at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New
York, from 1952–55. Since 1955 he has been an Assistant Professor of
English at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado, where,
“like two eyes joined in sight,” he combines his loves for aviation and
literature. He is the co-editor of _The Sound of Wings_, an anthology
of flying literature, published in 1957.
Captain Briand is married to the former Margaret Frances Palladino of
New York; they have four children: Paul L. III, Mary Katherine, Anne
Marie, and Margaret Mary.
[Illustration: Amelia Earhart after the Atlantic solo, 1932.]
[Illustration: Hilton H. Railey, Amelia Earhart, G. P. Putnam, and
David Binney Putnam at Rye Beach, New York, after the Atlantic solo,
1932.]
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