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The Night Amelia Earhart Crossed the Pacific Alone

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The Night Amelia Earhart Crossed the Pacific Alone

In January 1935, a leather-jacketed pilot lifted off from Honolulu and proved the Pacific could be crossed by a single pair of hands.

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