Amelia Earhart arrived unannounced in Harbour Grace, Nfld on May 19th 1932, in her plan to be the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. News soon soon spread and everyone came down to be part of the action.
At 7.20 pm May 20 she took off heading, well... as she said later, "My start from Friday in Newfoundland was delayed a little bit to have time to fix up all the customs requirements. They gave me clearance papers just as if I was the captain of a ship and I filled a blank space saying I was going to Paris. I wasn't sure where I was going, but that did just as well as any other."
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| Photos by Bill Parsons from The Challenge of the Atlantic, Robinson-Blackmore Publishers, Nfld. 1983 |
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