
And their bodies were later exhumed from a grave in Saipan and returned to the states to a place unknown.
Why in the hell would the US government keep this a secret?
Amelia Earhart 'was executed by the Japanese': New 'witness' account claims aviation pioneer was held in Saipan before being killed - and the US military collected her body and covered it up
Bill Sablan of Guam said his uncle Tun worked at a Japanese prison in late '30s
Tun said 2 American pilots - 1 female - were interned there after being rescued
That fits a theory that Earhart and her navigator were kept on Saipan island
Tun said the Japanese, fearing an international incident, had the pair executed
And the US military retrieved the remains after World War II, but kept quiet
Others who were on Saipan at the time have related the arrival of the pilot
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