You may not have heard, but Amelia Earhart's plane was actually been found by Australian soldiers during the war, but it was overlooked. I am serious.
This article appeared recently :
Angwin then told how another member of the patrol, Len Willoughby, had sent him a map of the patrol area that he’d taken as a souvenir from a pile of discarded equipment in 1945. [at]Willoughby had kept the map untouched until he mailed it to Angwin in 1993. When Angwin unfolded it to make a copy, he saw a series of [at]letters and numbers [at]written in the margins. There are few people in the world who would be able to recognise the [at]significance of those letters and numbers — “600H/P S3H/1 C/N1055” — but Billings, who had spent years working in Papua New Guinea, is one. “600HP is obviously horsepower,” he says. “S3H1 is the model of Earhart’s aeroplane engines — S3H1 Wasps, made by Pratt and Whitney.” But the most compelling of the numbers is CN1055. This was the unique construction number assigned to [at]Earhart’s airframe.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/lif...a6cef6835d20f2