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Yes, the "definitive proof" photo exploded rather quickly. I thought that it was altogether too convenient, not to mention that everyone was looking very relaxed given what was supposed to be happening.The whole Japanese-execution theory reeks. While US-Japanese relations in mid-1937 weren't exactly cordial, we were still trading and even in 1939 were selling them modern airplanes (DC-4Es and Lockheeds). It's not likely that Tokyo would have issued orders to off a famous American, and even less likely that some local Japanese commander would have done it on his own initiative.Given that Kingsford-Smith, Ulm and Mermoz all similarly vanished on oceanic flights in the same era, Occam's Razor cuts one way here.
Yes, the "definitive proof" photo exploded rather quickly. I thought that it was altogether too convenient, not to mention that everyone was looking very relaxed given what was supposed to be happening.
The whole Japanese-execution theory reeks. While US-Japanese relations in mid-1937 weren't exactly cordial, we were still trading and even in 1939 were selling them modern airplanes (DC-4Es and Lockheeds). It's not likely that Tokyo would have issued orders to off a famous American, and even less likely that some local Japanese commander would have done it on his own initiative.
Given that Kingsford-Smith, Ulm and Mermoz all similarly vanished on oceanic flights in the same era, Occam's Razor cuts one way here.
