With Our Own Eyes: Eyewitnesses to the Final Days of Amelia Earhart [Paperback]

Mike Campbell (Author)

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Publication Date: September 1, 2002

Mike Campbell thoroughly and cleary examines the many eyewitness accounts by U.S. servicemen and natives who saw Amelia Earhart, Fred Noonan and their plane on the island of Saipan after the time the U.S. government declared the Electra to have crashed at sea.

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"Anyone with... interest in the case will find much of value in With Our Own Eyes..." -- epinions.com

About the Author

Since the publication of his first book, EYEWITNESS: The Amelia Earhart Incident (Renaissance House 1987), Thomas E. Devine (of West Haven, Connecticut) has continued to chronicle his ongoing efforts to establish his eyewitness claim to the truth about the disap-pearance of Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Frederick J. Noonan, during their around-the-world flight attempt in 1937. For more than fifty years, Thomas E. Devine has labored to bring forth the facts - facts substantiated by the many eyewitness testimonies he has gathered. EYEWITNESS dwarfed everything previously published on the Earhart mystery for credibility and scholarship. Kirkus Reviews called it "An investigative exploration, purporting to solve once and for all the mystery of the record-shattering aviatrix who disappeared somewhere in the Pacific..." Hazel Jones of the Ninety-Nines (International Women Pilots Organization) called Devine's first book "Overpowering in its logic and documentation."

Since publication of EYEWITNESS, Devine has continued his research and correspondence with other eyewitnesses. While on a routine writing assignment, Mike Campbell (of Maryland) met the elder Devine through correspondence. Two years later, Devine agreed to allow Campbell, civilian editor of the monthly Navy Editor Service, to use information he had gathered as the basis for an up-to-date look at Earhart's disappearance — hence With Our Own Eyes. Devine and Campbell found the cooperation of other eyewitnesses who have come forth since 1987 invaluable. More than two dozen ex-GIs have corroborated Devine's account in many and various ways and in a thoroughly convincing manner. Devine's perseverance and refusal to abandon hope despite overwhelming resistance, and Campbell's clear presentation of eyewitness testimony are must reading for anyone interested in the facts surrounding the fate of Amelia Earhart.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Lucky Press (September 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970637764
• ISBN-13: 978-0970637765
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,631,976 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #92 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > People, A-Z > ( E ) > Earhart, Amelia

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Mike Campbell Biography

An award-winning writer as an active-duty Navy and civilian Department of Defense journalist and public affairs officer, Mike Campbell retired from federal service in 2008. After meeting Thomas E. Devine, author of the 1987 classic, "Eyewitness: The Amelia Earhart Incident" in 1988, Campbell was convinced that Devine, Fred Goerner, Joe Gervais, Paul Briand Jr., and others were correct when they proclaimed the presence and death of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan on Saipan after their disappearance in July 1937. After fourteen years of collaboration with Devine, "With Our Own Eyes: Eyewitnesses to the Final Days of Amelia Earhart" was published in 2002 by a small Ohio company.

"Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Last," to be published in spring 2012 by Sunbury Press, of Camp Hill, Penn., greatly expands upon the important eyewitness accounts of former American GIs who participated in the 1944 Battle of Saipan that were presented in "With Our Own Eyes." "The Truth at Last" is the most focused, strident and compelling case for Earhart's demise on Saipan ever, offering many new findings, testimony and analysis, as well as never-before-published information from Fred Goerner's files that reveals the ongoing, institutionalized cover-up at the highest levels of the U.S. government and military. "The Truth at Last" explodes the government-created myth that Amelia Earhart's Electra, NR 16020, crashed and sank in the central Pacific off Howland Island on July 2, 1937.

In 2005 Campbell edited "The Atchison Report," an extensive debunking of the notorious and false Amelia Earhart-as-Irene Bolam theory, first presented in the 1970 book, "Amelia Earhart Lives." by Joe Klaas. The report was distributed to researchers and other interested parties at the 2005 Amelia Earhart Festival, at Atchison, Kansas, Earhart's birthplace. He lives in Knoxville, Tenn., with his wife, Nee, and his cats, Pee Wee and Roy. He can be contacted at [e-mail].

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5.0 out of 5 stars Alex V. Mandel, February 28, 2004

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Alex V. Mandel (Odessa, Ukraine) - See all my reviews

This review is from: With Our Own Eyes: Eyewitnesses to the Final Days of Amelia Earhart (Paperback)

I am interested in Amelia Earhart and her disappearance mystery for 21 years. I have read this book and my impression is very positive.
During decades there were a lot of books, articles etc. written about this subject (Earhart's disappearance), but alas too frequently they were overflooded by rumors, baseless guesses, stretches and speculations without any firm factual support.
The Mike Campbell's book is principally different. It is based on firm first-hand evidence from many independent sources, whose credibility gives no food for doubts - there are former US Soldiers, who really were on the place of events and saw what they saw.
The book is free of guesses and speculations - authors doesn't builds some "versions" or "theories" but just presents the data obtained by them during many years from many independent sources, with extensive details, and the book includes many written reports and official documents.
As result the book gives a very complete and convincing picture about What Happened with Amelia Earhart. The book is written with clear accuracy and respect to facts and to the "subject" of the book - the great heroine of 20th century and US history, whose name alas was already too frequently used for unfair speculations of any sorts. Mike Campbell's book makes an extremely good job for to correct this sad error.
I would highly recommend this book for anybody interested in this great mystery.
Alex V.Mandel

4.0 out of 5 stars Amelia Earhart Compendium of Conspiracy Theories, July 18, 2010

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Paul H. Dietrich (Cleveland, TN. USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: With Our Own Eyes: Eyewitnesses to the Final Days of Amelia Earhart (Paperback)

This book covers every theory that exists as to what really happened (or didn't happen) to Amelia Earhart. However, the author makes it clear that the only theory he believes is that of the marine seargent who actually saw Earhart's plane on Saipan in 1944 - some 7 full years after Earhart disappeared on her around-the-world flight. What then happened to Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan? Read the book and find out!