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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, and author. On May 20–21, 1927, he made the first nonstop flight from New York to Paris, a distance of 3,600 miles (5,800 km), flying alone for 33.5 hours.
The material includes Lindbergh's thoughts about the future of aviation, such as the Arctic route between North America and Asia and the improvement of rocket-powered aircraft. In political affairs, the book affirms Lindbergh's opposition to American participation in World War II and his view of Nazi Germany as less bad than the Soviet Union ...
Charles Lindbergh made a speech on behalf of the America First Committee in Des Moines, Iowa which included remarks that would be instantly controversial: "The three most important groups who have been pressing this country toward war are the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration." Lindbergh said he admired the British and Jewish ...
The world-famous American aviator Charles Lindbergh was admired in Germany and was allowed to see the buildup of the German air force, the Luftwaffe, in 1937. He was impressed by its strength and secretly reported his findings to the General Staff of the United States Army , warning them that the U.S. had fallen behind and that it must urgently ...
Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 – February 7, 2001) was an American writer and aviator. She was the wife of decorated pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh, with whom she made many exploratory flights. Raised in Englewood, New Jersey, and later New York City, Anne Morrow graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, in ...
Des Moines speech The Burlington Daily Hawk Eye Gazette reporting on the speech, September 12, 1941 Date September 11, 1941 (1941-09-11) Duration 25 minutes Venue Des Moines Coliseum Location Des Moines, Iowa, U.S. Participants Charles Lindbergh The Des Moines speech, formally titled "Who Are the War Agitators?", was an isolationist and antisemitic speech that American aviator Charles ...
A New Jersey judge has denied an amateur investigator’s efforts to reexamine the evidence that was used to convict Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the 1932 kidnapping and killing of “the Lindbergh ...
The Order of Merit of the German Eagle was a diplomatic and honorary award given to prominent foreigners, particularly diplomats. In addition to awards to non-Germans, the Reich Foreign Minister and the Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia received a 'Special Class' (Sonderstufe), with identical insignia to the Grand Cross of the Order. Accordingly, F