Amelia Earhart's Life As A War Nurse And A Pilot

1. This text is biography about Amelia Earhart and her life as a war nurse and a pilot. Amelia was born on the 24th of July 1897, her childhood was not easy, as her father’s drinking addiction caused him to lose his job and her parents to split up. Amelia, her sister and her mother moved to Chicago. On a visit to her sister she was inspired by some World War 1 soldiers who were injured in battle, to instead of going to college become a nurse in a soldier’s hospital. By the year 1920 Amelia’s parents had gotten back together and moved to California, she moved to California to be with them. When there one day, she paid $1 to go for a 10 minute plane ride over Los Angeles. Once reaching the ground it was then that Amelia decided that from that day on she had to fly.

She later bought her own plane. In 1927, Amelia received a call that changed her life forever. Capitan Hilton Railey made Amelia an offer that she would never be able to turn down. She was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, even with though she wasn’t the pilot she was the one who got all of the attention, the two men who flew the plane were ignored by the newspapers. This was the first of many records she had achieved in her life. Only four years later Amelia became flew on her own across the Atlantic Ocean in record time, 13 hours and 30 minutes. By the time she landed she was famous in Europe and the United States. Soon after she also became the first woman to fly from Hawaii to California. By 1929 Amelia had formed a group of women pilots called the ninety nines, she had named it for the first 99 members. In June 1937 Amelia planned to fly around the world. She and her navigator Fred Noonan had taken off from New Guinea and the U.S. Coast Guard lost contact with the plane. No trace of the plane or its passengers were ever