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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), nicknamed Lucky Lindy, The Lone Eagle, and Slim,[1] 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, Long Island, New York, to Paris, France. He covered the 33 1⁄2-hour, 3,600 statute miles (5,800 km) alone in a single-engine purpose-built Ryan monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis. This was the first solo transatlantic flight and the first non-stop flight between North America and mainland Europe. Lindbergh was an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve, and he received the United States' highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for the feat.[2]
His achievement spurred interest in both commercial aviation and air mail, and Lindbergh himself devoted much time and effort to promoting such activity. Lindbergh's historic flight and celebrity status led to tragedy. In March 1932, his infant son, Charles Jr., was kidnapped and murdered in what American media called the "Crime of the Century" and described by H. L. Mencken as "the biggest story since the Resurrection".[3] The case prompted the United States Congress to establish kidnapping as a federal crime once the kidnapper had crossed state lines with his victim. By late 1935 the hysteria surrounding the case had driven the Lindbergh family into voluntary exile in Europe, from which they returned in 1939.
Before the United States formally entered World War II, some people accused Lindbergh of being a fascist sympathizer. An advocate of non-interventionism[4] he supported 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 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 wife, the former Anne Morrow, were the parents of six children. In 2003—twenty nine years after Lindbergh's death and two years after his wife died—it was revealed that beginning in 1957 (when he was 55 years old), Lindbergh had engaged in several covert adulterous affairs with three European women, with whom he fathered seven more children, none of whom learned of their father's true identity until a decade after his 1974 death.
His achievement spurred interest in both commercial aviation and air mail, and Lindbergh himself devoted much time and effort to promoting such activity. Lindbergh's historic flight and celebrity status led to tragedy. In March 1932, his infant son, Charles Jr., was kidnapped and murdered in what American media called the "Crime of the Century" and described by H. L. Mencken as "the biggest story since the Resurrection".[3] The case prompted the United States Congress to establish kidnapping as a federal crime once the kidnapper had crossed state lines with his victim. By late 1935 the hysteria surrounding the case had driven the Lindbergh family into voluntary exile in Europe, from which they returned in 1939.
Before the United States formally entered World War II, some people accused Lindbergh of being a fascist sympathizer. An advocate of non-interventionism[4] he supported 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 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 wife, the former Anne Morrow, were the parents of six children. In 2003—twenty nine years after Lindbergh's death and two years after his wife died—it was revealed that beginning in 1957 (when he was 55 years old), Lindbergh had engaged in several covert adulterous affairs with three European women, with whom he fathered seven more children, none of whom learned of their father's true identity until a decade after his 1974 death.
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Charles Lindbergh - From New York to Paris 1927
Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic on May 20-21, 1927 is seen as one of the most important events of the 20th century, but memories have dim...
Thanks Maj Marty Hogan for letting us know that February 4 is the anniversary of the birth of American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist
Charles Augustus Lindbergh nicknamed Lucky Lindy, The Lone Eagle, and Slim
Rest in peace Charles Lindbergh.
Sadly "Lindbergh's historic flight and celebrity status led to tragedy. In March 1932, his infant son, Charles Jr., was kidnapped and murdered. ... The case prompted the United States Congress to establish kidnapping as a federal crime once the kidnapper had crossed state lines with his victim."
In the 1920s anti-Semitism, communism and jingoism and fascism were popular among the wealthy, intelligentsia and many with too much time on their hands.
Image: 1927 Charles Lindbergh with Spirit of Saint Louis.; Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh; 1931 Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. on his first birthday.
"Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic on May 20-21, 1927 is seen as one of the most important events of the 20th century, but memories have dimmed and, in an age when jet airplanes routinely cross the Atlantic Ocean with hundreds of passengers, we have lost sight of its significance. Accompanied by film footage of Lindbergh's flight, Professor Emerita Janet Lieberman of La Guardia Community College/CUNY gives her childhood recollections of the event and a Brooklyn parade celebrating Lindbergh, which she attended with her family. The magnificent Brooklyn parade took place on June 16, its 22-mile route crowded with 700,000 school children and their parents.
Lindbergh was a little-known air mail pilot based in St. Louis in early January 1927, when he heard about a $25,000 prize being offered to the first non-stop flight between New York and Paris. Lindbergh's historic flight earned him this prize and the adulation of the nation. Radio and newsreel film, new media of the age, spread news of his feat in ways unimaginable only ten years earlier. The 1920s was a decade of ballyhoo and heroes, and the Lone Eagle's transatlantic flight made him the quintessential hero of the era. His momentous feat also became the catalyst for the growth and preeminence of the American aviation industry, overtaking its European rivals.
This is only one piece of the Lindbergh story. To learn more about Lindbergh, including the kidnapping of his son, his associations with Nazi Germany, and support of American isolationism, see the excellent biography "The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh & the Rise of American Aviation" by CUNY Distinguished Professor Thomas Kessner."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R3fGL67mas
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC Wayne Brandon LTC Bill Koski Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Capt Seid Waddell Capt Tom Brown MSG Andrew White SFC William Farrell SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SSgt Robert Marx PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SGT Robert George SGT John " Mac " McConnell SP5 Mark Kuzinski SP5 Robert Ruck SPC Margaret Higgins SGT Charles H. Hawes SGT (Join to see)
Charles Augustus Lindbergh nicknamed Lucky Lindy, The Lone Eagle, and Slim
Rest in peace Charles Lindbergh.
Sadly "Lindbergh's historic flight and celebrity status led to tragedy. In March 1932, his infant son, Charles Jr., was kidnapped and murdered. ... The case prompted the United States Congress to establish kidnapping as a federal crime once the kidnapper had crossed state lines with his victim."
In the 1920s anti-Semitism, communism and jingoism and fascism were popular among the wealthy, intelligentsia and many with too much time on their hands.
Image: 1927 Charles Lindbergh with Spirit of Saint Louis.; Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh; 1931 Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. on his first birthday.
"Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic on May 20-21, 1927 is seen as one of the most important events of the 20th century, but memories have dimmed and, in an age when jet airplanes routinely cross the Atlantic Ocean with hundreds of passengers, we have lost sight of its significance. Accompanied by film footage of Lindbergh's flight, Professor Emerita Janet Lieberman of La Guardia Community College/CUNY gives her childhood recollections of the event and a Brooklyn parade celebrating Lindbergh, which she attended with her family. The magnificent Brooklyn parade took place on June 16, its 22-mile route crowded with 700,000 school children and their parents.
Lindbergh was a little-known air mail pilot based in St. Louis in early January 1927, when he heard about a $25,000 prize being offered to the first non-stop flight between New York and Paris. Lindbergh's historic flight earned him this prize and the adulation of the nation. Radio and newsreel film, new media of the age, spread news of his feat in ways unimaginable only ten years earlier. The 1920s was a decade of ballyhoo and heroes, and the Lone Eagle's transatlantic flight made him the quintessential hero of the era. His momentous feat also became the catalyst for the growth and preeminence of the American aviation industry, overtaking its European rivals.
This is only one piece of the Lindbergh story. To learn more about Lindbergh, including the kidnapping of his son, his associations with Nazi Germany, and support of American isolationism, see the excellent biography "The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh & the Rise of American Aviation" by CUNY Distinguished Professor Thomas Kessner."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R3fGL67mas
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC Wayne Brandon LTC Bill Koski Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Capt Seid Waddell Capt Tom Brown MSG Andrew White SFC William Farrell SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SSgt Robert Marx PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SGT Robert George SGT John " Mac " McConnell SP5 Mark Kuzinski SP5 Robert Ruck SPC Margaret Higgins SGT Charles H. Hawes SGT (Join to see)
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My principal point is, in the case of both of them, husband and wife, what happened with both of them maritally quite clearly got totally out of control, RSP. in his case, as for her, possibly the loss of their first son in what happened contributed to her acting as she did, combined with how he acted, probably the loss affected both of them commensurately, it's just !amifestly apparent that fame went completely to his head, plus, his whole thing with te Germans didn't help matters, certainly, as well...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/29/world/dna-proves-lindbergh-led-a-double-life.html
I can obvioisly appreciate your historical interest in him, however, as you'd !mentioned, and as the article here describes in detail, there were clearly numerous aspects of his existence that weren't esp. appetizing, certainly...his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh, I've gathered, was also involved with her own physician, further illustrating that, despite their clear brilliance, the two of them quite obviously had a pretty bollixed up existence...I dont deny there was much to admire about him, however, what he did during the prelude to WW2 with Germany clearly got under the skin of FDR sufficiently to nan him from combat during WW2, even though, as he recounts in the book of his wartime journals, he was able to sneak into combat indirectly as a wartime contractor staff member, and I'm aware Pres Eisenhower later forgave him and restored his commission. However, that was clearly long before his daughter recounted his other escapades in the land of multiple bigamy, I'm not disputing that even the very great have their faults, however, in retrospect, I think hepis were quite clearly way over the top in many regards. I just thought I should perhaps recount that, if only to try to keep his life in proper perspective, I realize you mentioned a good deal of what went on with him, however, I for my part, can no longer watch that film about him with Jimmy Stewart, who was a true, untarnished war hero, in quite the same light, I'm afraid, I realize that's entirely my own viewpoint, and I realize his wife contributed her share to their whole sordid story, however, I just thought I should perhaps elaborate with that article here, if only to illustrate that occasional peccadillos are one thing, however, in the case of both of them together, they had enough of them combined to have basically lost count after awhile, him most esp. of the two, that's all I'm trying to say. One might say the same of FDR seeing that other woman with Eleanor not knowing, that the daughter of FDR arranged at Warm Springs, GS, one could say the same about Pres? Eisenhower and Capt. Kay Summersby, though no one knows for certain if that did in fact occur, neither his son, nor his enlisted aide during WW2. The thing is, in the case of the Lindbergh's, what happened was, in retrospect, pretty blatant, as well as quite well hidden, which is why I can no longer watch that Jimmy Stewart movie about him any longer, as I'd wonder, in watching it, just exactly what the audience in a theater seeing the movie initially might think of him, had they known about all of his extramarital nonsense back then, I realize that's my own observation, however, as I've thought about his story since reading the article here, those thoughts do, I'm afraid, cross my mind, I hope that makes at least some sense, many thanks.
I can obvioisly appreciate your historical interest in him, however, as you'd !mentioned, and as the article here describes in detail, there were clearly numerous aspects of his existence that weren't esp. appetizing, certainly...his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh, I've gathered, was also involved with her own physician, further illustrating that, despite their clear brilliance, the two of them quite obviously had a pretty bollixed up existence...I dont deny there was much to admire about him, however, what he did during the prelude to WW2 with Germany clearly got under the skin of FDR sufficiently to nan him from combat during WW2, even though, as he recounts in the book of his wartime journals, he was able to sneak into combat indirectly as a wartime contractor staff member, and I'm aware Pres Eisenhower later forgave him and restored his commission. However, that was clearly long before his daughter recounted his other escapades in the land of multiple bigamy, I'm not disputing that even the very great have their faults, however, in retrospect, I think hepis were quite clearly way over the top in many regards. I just thought I should perhaps recount that, if only to try to keep his life in proper perspective, I realize you mentioned a good deal of what went on with him, however, I for my part, can no longer watch that film about him with Jimmy Stewart, who was a true, untarnished war hero, in quite the same light, I'm afraid, I realize that's entirely my own viewpoint, and I realize his wife contributed her share to their whole sordid story, however, I just thought I should perhaps elaborate with that article here, if only to illustrate that occasional peccadillos are one thing, however, in the case of both of them together, they had enough of them combined to have basically lost count after awhile, him most esp. of the two, that's all I'm trying to say. One might say the same of FDR seeing that other woman with Eleanor not knowing, that the daughter of FDR arranged at Warm Springs, GS, one could say the same about Pres? Eisenhower and Capt. Kay Summersby, though no one knows for certain if that did in fact occur, neither his son, nor his enlisted aide during WW2. The thing is, in the case of the Lindbergh's, what happened was, in retrospect, pretty blatant, as well as quite well hidden, which is why I can no longer watch that Jimmy Stewart movie about him any longer, as I'd wonder, in watching it, just exactly what the audience in a theater seeing the movie initially might think of him, had they known about all of his extramarital nonsense back then, I realize that's my own observation, however, as I've thought about his story since reading the article here, those thoughts do, I'm afraid, cross my mind, I hope that makes at least some sense, many thanks.
DNA Proves Lindbergh Led a Double Life
Genetic tests prove claims by three Germans that Charles A Lindbergh was their father and led secret double life for almost two decades; three are Dyrk and David Hesshaimer and Astrid Bouteuil; Lindbergh started romance with their mother Brigitte Hesshaimer in Munich in 1957; three were not told of their relationship to him while growing up; Lindbergh also had six children with his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh in United States (M)
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