Slipping Gears in 1928. And the Death of Amelia Earhart.

            The Postcard

A Witty Comic Series postcard  that was published by Bamforth & Co. Ltd. of Holmfirth and New York. The card was printed in England.

The card was posted in Rochester using a 1d. stamp which refers to the Postal Union Congress of 1929 in London. 

The card was posted on Monday the 18th. June 1928 to:

Mrs. Watson,
c/o 140, Magpie Hall Lane,
The Common,
Bromley,
Kent.

The pencilled message on the divided back of the card was as follows:

"Hoping to see you
tomorrow!
Having a fine time,
lovely trip here.
Love,
Nance."

The Disappearance of Roald Amundsen 

So what else happened on the day that Nance posted the card?

Well, on the 18th. June 1928, Roald Amundsen and four crewmen took off from near Tromsø, Norway in an effort to find the missing crew of the Italia. They were never seen again.

Amelia Earhart

Also on that day, Amelia Earhart entered the record books as the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.

Her aircraft the Friendship touched down at Burry Port, Wales, after a 20-hour, 40 minute flight. She quickly became a celebrity.

During an attempt to become the first woman to complete a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Electra, Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. 

The two were last seen in Lae, New Guinea, on the 2nd. July 1937, on the last land stop before Howland Island, and one of their final legs of the flight. 

Amelia presumably died in the Pacific during the circumnavigation, just three weeks prior to her fortieth birthday. One year and six months after she and Noonan disappeared, Earhart was officially declared dead. Investigations and significant public interest in their disappearance still continue over 80 years later.

The Legacy of Amelia Earhart

Decades after her presumed death, Earhart was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1968, and the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1973. 

She now has several commemorative memorials named in her honor around the United States, including an urban park, an airport, a residence hall, a museum, a research foundation, a bridge, a cargo ship, an earth-fill dam, four schools, a hotel, a playhouse, a library, multiple roads, and more. 

She also has a minor planet, planetary corona, and a newly-discovered lunar crater named after her.
   

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