Throwback Thursday: Amelia Earhart ready for takeoff
A happy moment is captured before tragedy, as George Palmer Putnam, right, bid his wife, Amelia Earhart, “Happy Landings” as she started her 28,000-mile aerial jaunt around the globe, “just for fun,” when this June 1, 1937 photo was taken in Miami. The famed aviator disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on July 2. (AP Photo/MH)
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