Lindbergh, Charles Augustus

Born: 1902 AD
Died: 1974 AD, at 72 years of age.

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US aviator

made 1st solo nonstop trans-Atlantic airplane flight 1927, flying from Roosevelt Field in New York to Le Bourget Air Field in Paris in monoplane The Spirit of St. Louis

1st "Time" magazine Man of the Year 1927

prominent opponent of US entry into World War II

wrote memoir "The Spirit of St. Louis" 1953 (Pulitzer Prize for biography 1954)

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