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Amelia Earhart Declared Dead
By: Kali G.
New Hampshire, Age 10


Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly across the Pacific Ocean solo, not Just that she went both ways without stoping!She crashed somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. Her husband, George Putnam, soon paid for two private boats to search the islands of the South Pacific . Amelia Earhart disappeared on July 2,1937, she was 39 years, old. The Pacific Ocean was the route to Howland Island.. She was legally declared dead in January, 5,1939. Earhart was missing for 18 months before being declared dead

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