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U.S. to support search for Amelia Earhart's plane

By Douglas Stanglin, USA TODAY

Updated 9h 33m ago

Aviator Amelia Earhart poses with her Lockheed Electra. The U.S. is expected to help in a privately funded effort to search for Earhart's plane that disappeared in 1937 in the South Pacific.

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton threw her support behind The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery's new search for the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra plane.
Earhart was an inspiration to Americans as the nation struggled to emerge from the Great Depression of the 1930s, Clinton said.
"Amelia Earhart may have been a unlikely heroine for a nation down on its luck, but she embodies the spirit of an America coming of age and increasingly confident, ready to lead in a quite uncertain and dangerous world," Clinton said.
A 10-day search is planned for July.