"then surely, someone, somewhere, should have asked the question... "Amelia Earhart?"
The Aaussie soldiers DID at reunions. They didn't ask the right people.
The Yanks... maybe there were blokes asked each other too.
During the war ... they were interested in their little patch not civilian aircraft.
Maybe Amelia is on New Britain maybe she's not BUT serial numbers and unusual paint points to a good possibility.