Digital Collection

Lindbergh, Charles A.

Born
2/4/1902
Birthplace
Detroit, Michigan
Titles and Honors
1922 First flight
Commissioned in US Air Force Reserve 1925
First to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean (33 1/2 hrs) 5/21/1927
First Distinquished Flying Cross
Also decorated by France, England, Belgium and Spain
Special Air Mail Stamp
Promoted tto Colonel, US Air Reserve
WWII - National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (Resigned commission as considered Pro-Nazi
Education
University of Wisconsin (left to study flying)
Occupation
Aviator
Publications
Ve (1927); Of Flight and Life (1948);
Father
Charles Augustus Lindbergh
Mother
Evangeline Lodge Land
Spouse
Anne Spenser Morrow, m. 5/27/1929
Children
Charles A. Jr.
Jon Morrow
Land Morrow
Anne Spenser
One unnamed son
One unnamed daughter
Relations
Charles H. Land DDS(grandfather) / John C. Lodge (great uncle) / Dr. Edwin C. Lodge (great grandfather)
Nationality
American