After working as nurse and a telephone operator, Amelia became a social worker in Boston where she taught English to immigrant children.
In 1928, only one year after Charles Lindbergh's flight, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to make the flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Bill Stultz was flying the plane and Amelia was checking maps and keeping recordings. Since she didn't fly the plane herself, she later said that although it was a "grand experience," that she had felt like "baggage."
On Feb. 7, 1931, Amelia Earhart married George Putnam. In the past Earhart had turned down a proposal from another gentleman, saying that she didn't want to be a "domestic robot."
In 1932 she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Three other women had previously died trying. Acknowledging the dangers of attempting a flight around the world, Amelia Earhart said, "If I should pop off, it will be doing the thing I've always wanted to do."
Awards Won:
U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross;
Cross of the Knight of the Legion of Honor, from the French Government;
Gold Medal of the National Geographic Society
Harmon Trophy as America's outstanding airwoman in 1932, 1933, 1934, and 1935.
Romania - Award for Aeronautic Merit
On June 1, 1937 Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, began their flight around the world, covering the first leg from Florida to Puerto Rico. The flight took them to South America, Africa, India, Burma, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia and New Guinea. Amelia Earhart and Noonan left New Guinea on July 2, 1937, headed for Howland Island, a tiny island in the Pacific only two miles long and one mile wide. They never arrived. Amelia Earhart disappeared in the Pacific on July 3.
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