Charles Lindbergh, American Aviator
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Charles Lindbergh, American Aviator
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Charles Augustus Lindberg becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Flying in his "Spirit of St. Louis" he takes less than 34 hours to fly from Roosevelt Field, near New York City, to Paris, France. He was greeted upon his arrival by a frenzied crowd of more than 100,000 people at Le Bourget Field. USAF photograph dated May 21, 1927. Lindbergh used his fame to promote the development of both commercial aviation and Air Mail services in the United States and the Americas. In March 1932, his infant son, Charles, Jr., was kidnapped and murdered in what was dubbed the "Crime of the Century". The Lindbergh family went into voluntary exile in Europe in late December 1935 and did not return to the United States until 1939. Lindbergh was a leader in the anti-war America First movement, he nevertheless strongly supported the war effort after Pearl Harbor and flew many combat missions in the Pacific Theater of World War II as a civilian consultant. In his later years, Lindbergh became a prolific prize-winning author, international explorer, inventor, and environmentalist. Lindbergh spent his final years on the Hawaiian island of Maui, where he died of lymphoma in 1974 at age 72.
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