Charles+Lindbergh

Charles was born in Detroit, Michigan, on February 4, 1902.

  **Lindbergh was the first pilot to complete a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. He crossed the Atlantic, a flight of 3,600 miles in 33 1/2 hours before landing at Le Bourget Field near Paris.**

In 1932, the Lindbergh's 20-month-old fist son, Charles Augustus, Jr., was kidnapped and murdered by Bruno Richard Hauptman. It was said to be one of the most notorious crimes in American history.


 *  In 1924, Lindbergh enlisted in the United States Army so that he could be trained as an Army Air Service Reserve pilot. In 1925, he graduated from the Army's flight-training school at Brooks and Kelly fields, near San Antonio, as the best pilot in his class. After Lindbergh completed his Army training, the Robertson Aircraft Corporation of St. Louis hired him to fly the mail between St. Louis and Chicago. He gained a reputation as a cautious and capable pilot. **

 While in Europe, Lindbergh was invited by the governments of France and Germany to tour the aircraft industries of their countries. Lindbergh was especially impressed with the highly advanced aircraft industry of Nazi Germany. In 1938, Hermann Goering, a high Nazi official, presented Lindbergh with a German medal of honor. Lindbergh's acceptance of the medal caused an outcry in the United States among critics of Nazism. http://www.charleslindbergh.com/history/index.asp ** 
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