Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. In 1927, he won the Orteig Prize for making a nonstop flight from New York City to Paris. His non-interventionist stance and statements about Jews led some to suspect he was a Nazi sympathizer. He died in a plane crash in 1969.
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Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. In 1927, he won the Orteig Prize for making a nonstop flight from New York City to Paris. His non-interventionist stance and statements about Jews led some to suspect he was a Nazi sympathizer. He flew 50 missions in the Pacific Theater of World War II as a civilian consultant, but did not take up arms as Roosevelt refused to reinstate his Air Corps colonel’s commission. In his later years, he became a prolific author, international explorer, inventor and environmentalist. He was the third child of Charles August LindberGH, who had emigrated from Sweden to Melrose, Minnesota as an infant, and his only child with his second wife, Evangeline Lodge LandLindbergh, of Detroit. Charles’ father, a U. S. Congressman from 1907 to 1917, was one of the few Congressmen to oppose the entry of the U.S. into World War I. His book, Why Is Your Country at War, which criticized the US’ entry into the First World War, was seized by federal agents under the Comstock Act. It was later posthumously reprinted and issued in 1934, under the title Your Country At War, and What Happens to You After a War. In March 1932, his infant son, Charles Jr., was kidnapped and murdered in what the American media called the \”Crime of the Century\”. The case prompted the United States Congress to establish kidnapping as a federal crime if the kidnapper crosses state lines with a victim.
In late 1920s, Lindberng dropped out of college to become a mechanical engineering student. By the time he started flying in 1922, he had become fascinated with flying, though he had never been a pilot himself. He died in a plane crash in 1969. He is buried in a suburb of New York, where he had lived with his wife and two children. He leaves behind a wife and three children. His son, Edward, is a well-known author and author-in- residence at the University of California, Los Angeles. His daughter, Anne, is the author of several books, including the best-selling book, “The Secret Life of the American Teenager” (1998). He is survived by his wife, two daughters, and a son, William. He also has a daughter, Elizabeth, who was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1913. He had a son with his first wife, who died of cancer in 1936. He has three grandchildren, two step-children, and one step-grandchild. He lived in Washington, D. C. and a grandson. He spent most of his childhood in Little Falls, Minnesota and Washington, C. C., and later moved to California. He went to college in Lincoln, Nebraska, and then to Lincoln in March 1922 to begin flight training. In 1924, he flew the Spirit of St. Louis, the first non-stop transatlantic flight.
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