"that his prewar assessments of the Soviet threat were correct. Lindbergh witnessed firsthand the defeat of Germany and the Holocaust, and Berg reported, ""he knew the American public no longer gave a hoot about his opinions."" In 1954, on the recommendation of President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], Lindbergh was commissioned a [[Brigadier general (United States)|brigadier general]] in the [[U.S. Air Force Reserve]]. Also in that year, he served on a Congressional advisory panel that recommended the site of the [[United States Air Force Academy]]. In December 1968, he visited the crew of [[Apollo 8]] (the first manned mission to orbit the"
"or Autobiography winners]] [[Category:Racism in the United States]] [[Category:Recipients of the Air Force Cross (United Kingdom)]] [[Category:Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)]] [[Category:Sidwell Friends School alumni]] [[Category:Transatlantic flight]] [[Category:United States Air Force officers]] [[Category:United States airmail pilots]] [[Category:United States Army Air Forces officers]] [[Category:United States Army Medal of Honor recipients]] [[Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering alumni]] [[Category:Writers from Detroit]] [[Category:Antisemitism in the United States]] [[Category:Critics of Judaism]] [[Category:American male non-fiction writers]] Charles Lindbergh Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist. At age"
"Charles Lindbergh, recently returned from his transatlantic flight. Upon graduating from college, Smith enrolled in the United States Navy Reserve, and the next year attended Columbia Law School, receiving a law degree in 1932, although he never went on to practice law. In 1933, Smith enlisted in the United States Navy and was a naval aviator from 1933 to 1941. In 1941, he joined Pan American World Airways as manager of PanAm's operations in Africa. In 1943, he returned to active service; he served in the Navy for another ten years, retiring in 1953, having attained the rank of captain."
"Charles Lindbergh Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist. At age 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a [[U.S. Air Mail]] pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the [[Orteig Prize]]: making a nonstop flight from [[Roosevelt Field (airport)|Roosevelt Field]], [[Long Island]], [[New York (state)|New York]], to [[Paris]], France. Lindbergh covered the -hour, flight alone in a single-engine purpose-built [[Ryan Airline Company|Ryan]] [[monoplane]], the ""[[Spirit of St. Louis]]"". This was not the [[Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown|first flight between North America and"
"Lindbergh (book) Lindbergh is a 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Charles Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg. The book became a ""New York Times"" Best Seller and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography. Once he had completed his second book, """" (about film producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.) in 1989, Berg began the search for his next subject. He wanted it to be ""another great American cultural figure but—because I had written about Perkins and Goldwyn—not somebody from the worlds of publishing or film"". After briefly considering Tennessee Williams, Berg chose the aviator Charles Lindbergh, attracted by what he"
"famous aviator Charles Lindbergh. He maintains an active Twitter account by that name. In 1979, Lindberg enrolled in the flight cadet course and graduated in 1982, receiving a promotion to ""luutnantti"" (Lieutenant). He flew as an officer pilot, instructor and demo pilot in Karelia Air Command in 1982–87, flying Soviet MiG–21BIS 1988 fighter planes, and was promoted to flight commander in 1989. In 1993–94, Lindberg was the Chief of Pilot Training in the Finnish Air Force headquarters in Tikkakoski, Jyväskylä. In 1995, American McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornets were purchased to become the frontline fighter jets for the Finnish Air Force,"
"Charles Lindbergh for his transatlantic flight only five weeks earlier, Maitland and Hegenberger's feat was arguably more significant from a navigational stand point. Maitland continued his career in the Air Corps, serving in combat as a bombardment group commander during World War II. He later became the first director of the Wisconsin Aeronautics Commission and the Director of Civil Defense for the state of Michigan before changing professions and becoming an Episcopal minister. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1899, Maitland graduated from Riverside High School in 1917. He enlisted as an aviation cadet in the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps"
"Europe]], but he did achieve the first solo [[transatlantic flight]] and the first non-stop flight between North America and the European mainland. Lindbergh was an officer in the [[United States Army Reserve|U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve]], and he received the United States' highest military decoration, the [[Medal of Honor]], for the feat. Lindbergh's achievement spurred interest in both commercial aviation and air mail, and he devoted much time and effort to promoting such activity. But his historic flight and celebrity status also led to tragedy. In March 1932, his infant son, Charles Jr., [[Lindbergh kidnapping|was kidnapped and murdered]] in what"
"a 500-guest banquet and dance held at Clarence MacKay's Long Island estate, [[Harbor Hill]]. The following night, Lindbergh was honored with a grand banquet at the Hotel Commodore given by the Mayor's Committee on Receptions of the City of New York and attended by some 3,700 people. He was officially awarded the check for the prize on . On July 18, 1927, Lindbergh was promoted to the rank of colonel in the Air Corps of the Officers Reserve Corps of the U.S. Army. On , 1927, a Special [[Act of Congress]] awarded Lindbergh the [[Medal of Honor]], despite the fact"
"however, so immediately following graduation Lindbergh returned to civilian aviation as a barnstormer and [[flight instructor]], although as a reserve officer he also continued to do some part-time military flying by joining the [[110th Bomb Squadron|110th Observation Squadron]], 35th Division, Missouri [[National Guard of the United States|National Guard]], in St. Louis. He was soon promoted to [[First Lieutenant#United States|1st Lieutenant]], and to captain in July 1926. [[File:CharlesLindbergh PostOfficeOath.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]] In October 1925, Lindbergh was hired by the [[Robertson Aircraft Corporation]] (RAC) at the [[Lambert-St. Louis International Airport|Lambert-St. Louis Flying Field]] in Anglum, MO (where he had been working as a flight"
"(St. Louis, Missouri)|Forest Park]] in St. Louis, Missouri. [[File:Congressional Gold Medal presented to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|The [[Congressional Gold Medal]] presented , 1930, to Lindbergh by President [[Herbert Hoover]] ]] [[File:Charles Lindberg, Medal of Honor.JPG|thumb|upright=0.75|Lindbergh's Medal of Honor]] Rank and organization: Captain, U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve. Place and date: From New York City to Paris, France, , 1927. Entered service at: Little Falls, Minn. Born: , 1902, Detroit, Mich. G.O. No.: 5, W.D., 1928; Act of Congress , 1927. In addition to """"WE"""" and ""The Spirit of St. Louis"", Lindbergh wrote prolifically over the years on other topics, including"
"Lindbergh High School (Washington) Lindbergh High School is a (senior) high school located in the southeastern section of Renton, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, in the Renton School District. It is named after Charles A. Lindbergh, the famous aviator who was first to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1927. The school was founded in 1972. Freshmen, sophomores and juniors attended the first year, making the class of 1974 the first to graduate. Lindbergh's school motto is ""ad astra"", which is Latin for ""to the stars"". The crest features the Spirit of St. Louis (the plane that Charles Lindbergh flew),"
"Charles W. Lindberg Charles W. ""Chuck"" Lindberg (June 26, 1920 – June 24, 2007) was a United States Marine corporal who served in World War II. He is best known for his bringing public attention to the first of two U.S. flags raised on top of Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945, during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Lindberg was one of the last surviving members of the patrol that captured Mount Suribachi and raised the flag. In 1954, the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, was modeled after the famous photograph of the second-flag raising which had been"
"in 1914 until 1920, the E6s ran mostly on the corridor between New York City and Washington, D.C. After being replaced by the K4s model, the E6s locomotives were relegated to charter services because of their high speed. After returning from Europe and his transatlantic flight on June 11, 1927, Charles Lindbergh was promoted to colonel and awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross by President Calvin Coolidge. Two rival newsreel companies, who were each vying to be the first to have their films of the ceremony shown in New York theaters, chartered a train and an aircraft, respectively, from Washington to"
"August Lindbergh, left his wife and seven children, and emigrated to the United States with his mistress and their illegitimate infant son, Carl, in 1859. Lovisa became Louisa and young Carl became Charles August Lindbergh. They settled in Melrose, Minnesota and had six more children together. August worked as a farmer and a blacksmith for 26 years before marrying Louisa in 1885, having become a widower in 1864 with the death of his first wife in Sweden. Charles August Lindbergh studied law at the University of Michigan Law School, graduating in 1883 and being admitted to the bar the same"
"Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History The Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History, also known as the Lindbergh Chair, is a one-year senior fellowship hosted by the U.S. National Air and Space Museum (NASM), to assist a scholar in the research and composition of a book about aerospace history. Named for the famous aviator Charles Lindbergh, the position is competitive: one experienced scholar is selected each year from multiple applicants worldwide. Up to $100,000 is granted to the winner. The Lindbergh Chair is one of four research fellowships administered by NASM within the Smithsonian Institution: the others are"
"during the interwar period: Captain Charles A. Lindbergh. His service illustrated the close ties between military and commercial aviation. Trained to fly by the Army, he joined the 110th Observation Squadron in November 1925. The following year, he became chief pilot for an airmail venture started by fellow 110th pilots Major William Robertson and his brother Frank. After Lindbergh made his historic solo trans-Atlantic flight in May 1927, he recalled his service in the Guard fondly. After the Fall of France, during 1940–1941, approximately 4,800 experienced National Guard aviation personnel were mobilized from their observation squadrons. They provided a significant"
"his fellow pilot, Charles Lindbergh, to urge Americans to enter the war against Nazi Germany. Unsuccessful in his primary objective, de Saint-Exupery became captivated by ""Charles’s golden-haired boy,"" Land Lindbergh. As a 76-year-old Montana rancher in 2014, the possible basis for this classic story could not be reached for comment. Lindbergh won the Redbook magazine award in 1987 for ‘’The Midnight Farm’’ and in 1990 for ‘’Benjamin's Barn’’. She serves as member of board (1977-) and honorary chairman (2004-) of the Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation. She previously served as vice president (1986–95) and president (1995-2004) of the"
"science, technology, nationalism, war, materialism, and values. Included among those writings were five other books: ""The Culture of Organs"" (with [[Alexis Carrel|Dr. Alexis Carrel]]) (1938), ""Of Flight and Life"" (1948), ""The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh"" (1970), ""Boyhood on the Upper Mississippi"" (1972), and his unfinished ""Autobiography of Values"" (posthumous, 1978). In addition to many biographies such as A. Scott Berg's massive """"Lindbergh"""" published in 1999 and others, Lindbergh also influenced or was the model for characters in a variety of works of fiction. Shortly after he made his famous flight, the [[Stratemeyer Syndicate]] began publishing a series of"
"year. In 1887, Lindbergh married Mary LaFond, with whom he had two daughters, Lillian and Eva. Mary LaFond died in 1898. In 1901, Charles married Evangeline Lodge Land (1876–1954). In 1902, they settled in Little Falls, Minnesota. They separated in 1918, their only child being the famous aviator Charles Lindbergh, who also became an antiwar leader. Lindbergh served as prosecuting attorney for Morrison County, Minnesota in 1891-1893. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1906 as a Republican, serving in the 60th, 61st, 62nd, 63rd, and 64th congresses. In 1916 he unsuccessfully campaigned for a seat in"
"members of the Federal Reserve Board including Paul Warburg and William Proctor Gould Harding, charging that they were involved ""...in a conspiracy to violate the Constitution and laws of the United States..."" Charles August Lindbergh died in 1924 in Crookston, Minnesota of brain cancer. He has a memorial plaque in the columbarium at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis. According to his wishes, son Charles scattered his ashes over the place near Sauk River where the first Lindbergh home once stood. Charles August Lindbergh Charles August Lindbergh (born Carl Månsson; January 20, 1859 – May 24, 1924) was a United States Congressman"
"the antiwar [[America First Committee]], which opposed American aid to Britain in its war against Germany, and resigned his commission in the [[United States Army Air Forces]] in 1941 after President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] publicly rebuked him for his views. Nevertheless, he publicly supported the U.S. war effort after the [[Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor]] and flew fifty combat missions in the [[Pacific War|Pacific Theater]] of World War II as a civilian consultant, though Roosevelt refused to reinstate his Air Corps colonel's commission. In his later years, Lindbergh became a prolific prize-winning author, international explorer, inventor, and environmentalist. Lindbergh and his"
"who talks against the interests of his own country ought to be arrested and put in jail, not excepting senators and colonels."" Everyone knew that the colonel in question was Charles Lindbergh. In the late 1940s he called for toughness in dealing with the Soviet Union and did not hesitate to recommend using the atomic bomb in a first strike: ""If they can't find anyone else to push the button, I will."" He questioned the failure of United Nations forces to use the atomic bomb in Korea. In the 1960s he criticized Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's plans to reduce"
"he had received two million congratulatory telegrams, making him one of the most famous Americans of the century. The Sourland Mountain location, while secluded, afforded easy access by air and automobile to the Lindberghs' offices in New York City and to the laboratories of nearby Princeton University, to which they had been granted access. The home was the site of one of the most notorious crimes of the 20th century, the Lindbergh kidnapping, often called the ""Crime of the Century"". On the evening of March 1, 1932, the Lindberghs' oldest son, 20-month-old Charles Lindbergh, Jr., was abducted by means of"
"Charles August Lindbergh Charles August Lindbergh (born Carl Månsson; January 20, 1859 – May 24, 1924) was a United States Congressman from Minnesota's 6th congressional district from 1907 to 1917. He opposed American entry into World War I as well as the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. Lindbergh is best known as the father of famous aviator Charles Lindbergh. Lindbergh was born Carl Månsson, in Stockholm, Sweden, to Lovisa Carlén, the 19-year-old mistress of Ola Månsson, a peasant member of the Riksdag of the Estates and a bank manager. When accused of bribery and embezzlement, Ola Månsson changed his name to"
"Richard Hauptmann Bruno Richard Hauptmann (November 26, 1899 – April 3, 1936) was a German-born carpenter who was convicted of the abduction and murder of the 20-month-old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The Lindbergh kidnapping became known as ""The Crime of the Century"". Hauptmann proclaimed his innocence to the end, but he was convicted of first degree murder and executed in 1936 in the electric chair at the New Jersey State Prison. Hauptmann was born Bruno Richard Hauptmann in Kamenz, near Dresden in what was then the German Empire; he was the youngest of"
"Charles as its leader in 1940. After the attack on Pearl Harbor and Germany's declaration of war, the committee disbanded, and he eventually managed to become involved in the military and enter combat only as a civilian. In this period, Anne met the famous French writer, poet and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of the famous novella ""The Little Prince"", and the two had a secret affair. The Lindberghs had five more children: sons Jon, Land, and Scott, and daughters Anne and Reeve. After the war, she wrote books that helped to rebuild the reputations the Lindberghs had gained"
"1970), Anne received honorary degrees from Amherst College (1939), the University of Rochester (1939), Middlebury College (1976), and Gustavus Adolphus College (1985). Anne Morrow Lindbergh Anne Spencer Lindbergh (née Morrow; June 22, 1906 – February 7, 2001) was an American author, aviator, and the wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh. She was an acclaimed author, whose books and articles spanned genres from poetry to nonfiction, touching upon topics as diverse as youth and age, love and marriage, peace, solitude and contentment, and the role of women in the 20th century. Lindbergh's ""Gift from the Sea"" is a popular inspirational book, reflecting"
"sweeps to the southern Philippines, Celebes, Halmahera, and Borneo. For a while, the 475th included among its personnel the famous pilot Charles Lindbergh. He was serving with the Group as a technical representative from the United Aircraft Corporation. Lindbergh flew a number of combat missions with the Group in June/August 1944 as a civilian to instruct pilots on how to use cruise control to get maximum range and endurance from their P-38Js. On 28 July, Lindbergh was credited with shooting down a Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-51 over Elpaputih Bay in the Netherlands East Indies in a 433d Fighter Squadron P-38 42-104995."
"promoting Charles Lindbergh's solo trans-Atlantic flight. Lindbergh was made a member of the Quiet Birdmen. Unusually, a former combat foe was invited to join the club: Ernst Udet, the highest-scoring German flying ace to survive World War I. Known as a fun-loving playboy, Udet performed aerobatics at the National Air Races in Cleveland in 1931 and '32, Los Angeles in '33, and again in Cleveland in '38. While visiting the U.S., Udet befriended Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Wiley Post, Roscoe Turner and other American QBs. Outside of New York, other Quiet Birdmen regional groups, or hangars, were formed. Before"
"the son of aviator Charles Lindbergh. His son, Robert Wilentz, who also was a partner in the firm, was Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1979 to 1996. The Wilentz firm has gained a reputation for its representation of plaintiffs in mass tort and product liability cases, including a lawsuit against a large tobacco company that led in 1988 to a jury awarding $400,000 in damages to the heirs of Rose Cipollone, a heavy smoker who had died of lung cancer. This was first time a U.S. court granted a monetary award in a case involving death"
"Do not forget that the Fascisti are to Italy what The American Legion is to the United States. The Legion invited Mussolini to speak at its convention as late as 1930. The American Legion was instrumental in the creation of the U.S. Veterans' Bureau, now known as the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Legion also created its own American Legion Baseball Program, hosting national tournaments annually from 1926. Commander Travers D. Carmen awarded Charles Lindbergh its ""Distinguished Service Medal"", the medal's first recipient, on July 22, 1927. American Legion national convention was held in Paris in September 1927. A major"
"wife, the former [[Anne Morrow]], were the parents of six children. He fathered seven more children as a result of several covert adulterous affairs with three [[German people|German women]] (two from [[Bavaria]], one from [[East Prussia]]) beginning in 1957 when he was 55 years old. In 2003, (twenty-nine years after Lindbergh's death and two years after his wife died) one of those children, Astrid Hesshaimer, revealed the story of Lindbergh's affairs to the world. [[File:Charles&Dad.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.75|Charles A. Lindbergh and his father, circa 1910]] Lindbergh was born in [[Detroit]], Michigan, on , 1902, and spent most of his childhood in [[Little Falls,"