Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh with the Spirit of St. Louis
1927
Born
February 4, 1902(1902-02-04)
Detroit, Michigan
Died
August 26, 1974 (aged 72)
Kipahulu, Maui, Hawaii
Occupation Aviator, author,
inventor, explorer,
peace activist
Spouse(s)
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Children
By Anne Morrow Lindbergh:
Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr.
Jon Lindbergh
Land Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Spencer Lindbergh (Perrin)
Scott Lindbergh
Reeve Lindbergh (Brown)
By Brigitte Hesshaimer:
Dyrk Hesshaimer
Astrid Hesshaimer Bouteuil
David Hesshaimer
By Marietta Hesshaimer:
Vago Hesshaimer
Christoph Hesshaimer.
Parents
Charles August Lindbergh
Evangeline Lodge Land
Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4,
1902 – August 26, 1974) (nicknamed "Lucky
Lindy" and "The Lone Eagle") was an Americ-
an aviator, author, inventor and explorer.
On May 20–21, 1927, Lindbergh, then a
25-year old U.S. Air Mail pilot, emerged from
virtual obscurity to almost
instantaneous
world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-
winning solo non-stop flight from Roosevelt
Field on Long Island to Le Bourget Field in
Paris in the single-seat, single-engine mono-
plane Spirit of St. Louis. Lindbergh, an Army
reserve officer, was also awarded the na-
tion’s highest military decoration, the Medal
of Honor, for his historic exploit.[1]
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Lind-
bergh used his fame to relentlessly help pro-
mote the rapid development of U.S. commer-
cial aviation. In March, 1932, however, his in-
fant son, Charles, Jr., was kidnapped and
murdered in what was soon dubbed the
"Crime of the Century" which eventually led
to the Lindbergh family fleeing the United
States in December 1935 to live in Europe
where they remained up until the Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor. Before the United
States entered WWII in December, 1941,
Lindbergh had been an outspoken advocate
of keeping the U.S. out of the world conflict
(as was his Congressman father during World
War I) and became a leader of the anti-war
America First movement. Nonetheless, he
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