Charles Lindbergh
Shortly after Charles Lindbergh landed, he was swarmed by 25,000
Parisians who carried the wearied pilot on their shoulders. They were rejoicing
that Charles Lindbergh, the American aviator who flew the first transatlantic
flight, had just landed at Le Bourget field in France. Having just completed
what some people called an impossible feat, he was instantly a well-known
international hero. Despite his pro-German stance during World War II, Charles
Lindbergh is also an American hero. A record of his happiness and success exists
in the material form of his plane hanging in the Smithsonian Institute; however,
much of Lindbergh's life was clouded by turmoil. The life of Charles Lindbergh
though best remembered for his heroic flight across the Atlantic, was marred by
the kidnapping of his baby and his fall from favor with the American public
following his pro-German stance during the 1930's. Charles Lindbergh, the famous
American aviator, was born February 4,......
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