Amelia Earhart mysteriously vanished while flying over the Pacific Ocean 
on July 2, 1937 attempting a record flight around the world at the equator. 

Glass fragments make up a nearly complete jar identical to the style used
by Dr. C. H Berry’s Freckle Ointment (right).

(Discovery News) A small cosmetic jar offers more circumstantial evidence that
the legendary aviator, Amelia Earhart, died on an uninhabited island in the
southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati.

Found broken in five pieces, the ointment pot was collected on Nikumaroro Island
by researchers of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR),
which has long been investigating the last, fateful flight taken by Earhart 75 years
ago.

When reassembled,‭ the glass fragments ‬make up a nearly complete jar identical
in shape to the ones used by Dr.‭ ‬C.‭ ‬H Berry’s Freckle Ointment. The ointment was marketed in the early‭ ‬20th century as a concoction guaranteed to make freckles
fade.

"It’s well documented Amelia had freckles and disliked having them," Joe Cerniglia,
the TIGHAR researcher who spotted the freckle ointment as a possible match, told Discovery News.

Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis before take off

The Spirit of St. Louis, flown solo by Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt
Airfield, Garden City, New York on Friday, May 20, 1927 and landed 33 hours, 
and 30 minutes later at Aéroport Le Bourget in Paris, France on May 21, a
distance of approximately 3,600 miles, thus completing the first non-stop
flight from New York to Paris. 

A short clip of the actual take off of the Spirit of St. Louis

Spirit of St. Louis arriving at Le Bourget Airport in Paris

Today the Spirit is on display at the National Air and Space Museum

May 7, 1937

The Hindenburg at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey in 1936, a
year prior to the crash

Radio announcer Herbert Morrison‘s recorded eyewitness report
from the landing field,which was broadcast the next day. Of the 97
people on board (36 passengers, 61 crew), there were 36 total 
fatalities, including one death among the ground crew.

Herbert Morrison

  
Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (May 2, 1892 – April 21, 1918)

Baron Von Richthofen is best known as “The Red Baron”, a German
fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service during World 
War I. He is considered the top ace of that war, being officially
credited with 80 air combat victories, more than any other pilot.

He remains quite possibly the most widely-known fighter pilot of all 
time, and has been the subject of many books and films. 

Snoopy’s imaginary battles against the Red Baron began in the comic
strip in October 1965.