Lae Airfield crane above the aircraft. The Lae airport is probably best remembered for being the point of departure in July 1937 for Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan on their flight to Howland Island. Earhart's plane disappeared near Howland Island some 19 hours after departing Lae airport. Lae Airfield Lae Airfield is a former World War II airfield and later, civilian airport located at Lae, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. The airport was closed in the 1980s, in favour of Lae Nadzab Airport, which was able to accommodate larger jet aircraft. The airport was known as Lae Drome or Lae Aerodrome
Tommy Noonan Sonny Tufts' last movie. Noonan was married two times. His last wife was actress Pocahontas Crowfoot, whose name had been Carole Langley. They were married 16 years. Eight months after he had an operation for a brain tumor, Noonan died at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital, just a few days shy of his 47th birthday. He was survived by his wife, Pokie Noonan, and their four children: Vince, Susan, Kathleen, and Timothy; by Tom Huntington, his son from his first marriage to Lucile Barnes; and by grandchildren Matthew and Claire. Tommy Noonan Tommy Noonan (April 29,