In 1917, Amelia entered a nursing school and witnessed the horrors of war. She served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse at a military hospital during World War I. 

 

Amelia’s love for aviation was born when her father took her to an aerial show where she got to ride in an open-cockpit flight over Los Angeles.

 

Amelia started taking flight lessons. Amelia caught on quickly and soon became an excellent pilot. In July of 1920, she purchased her first plane. Soon, Amelia began attempting to break records. She first broke the altitude record of 14,000 feet. As aviation became more and more popular.

 

She became the first woman to fly the Atlantic and the only person to do it twice, she also broke the record for the longest flight by a woman and broke the record for crossing the Atlantic Ocean in the shortest time.




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Amelia had become an international hero, and the world was captivated by her determination. Amelia and his copilot Fred Noonan were travelling around the world. 

 

On July, Amelia left New Guinea, she sent several distress calls. While her distress calls were received, Amelia could not hear the return messages because she could not find the correct frequency on her radio. Amelia and Fred were off course and lost over the vast Pacific Ocean. 

 

They did not have enough gas to reach their target. Amelia and Fred would never be seen or heard from again. President Roosevelt sent nine naval ships and 66 aircraft to search the area. On July 18, the search was called off.