Includes bibliographical references (p. 438-447) and index.
Contents:
Foreward -- Introduction -- The final flight -- Saipan, Thomas E. Devine, and NR 16020 -- The Saipan witnesses -- The way to Marshalls -- The Marshall Islands witnesses -- Goerner's reversal and Devine's dissent -- Saipan veterans come forward -- Earskin J. Nabers: the unknown eyewitness -- Nabers and the Forrestal connection -- Gravesites -- Griswold, Henson, and Burks -- The care and nuture of a sacred cow -- The establishment's contempt for truth -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary:
Presents new findings, eyewitness accounts, analysis, and never-before-published revelations from many unimpeachable sources including famed U.S. generals and iconic newsman and Earhart researcher Fred Goerner's files that reveal the truth about her death on Saipan, as well as the sacred cow status of this matter within the American establishment.
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