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[Music] hi I'm Ryan samansky curator for Battleship New Jersey mm Memorial today we're going to do a video uh about Amelia aart not really in our uh subject area however the battleship Colorado led the search effort for her and uh because of my previous job I actually have a lot of thoughts about this she has popped up in the news again because of the sonar image that maybe her a Craft um too soon to tell on that really interesting Amelia aarts loss was caused by a failure to established Communications with equipment like this 1940s Era radio equipment we have here on Battleship New Jersey the radio room on the Coast Guard Cutter at tasa would have been very similar to this she was flying from Lei and airfield on New Guinea which would gain some Fame during World War II when the Japanese were flying aircraft out of it over the Owen Stanley mountain range and was trying to find the US possession of Howland Island Howland Island was one of the equatorial islands that was uh colonized by