Dave certainly has the credibility of the Oz army report and that of the Vet who was there and the map/message that indicates an a/c and engine was found there by the clearing patrol in 1945 and that has some relationship to the lost electra of AE hence Dave's passion in trying to locate what's left of it
it is a fascinating story I cannot understand why major funding for this search has not come forward
my only observations are that long wave radio signals picked up days after the a/c went missing were heard by a young girl a HAM operator in florida who says she heard a woman's voice saying they were injured plus something something sounding like ''new york city''
well an island nearby to Howland had a 1929 large wreck on the beach/reef called the SS Norwich City
that then goes back to the theory she crash landed on the reef and was quoting the vessel that was near her
the island was Gardner island