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...bitter months before Pearl Harbor, Charles A. Lindbergh stumped the nation, appearing before rallies and speaking over the radio as one of the strongest advocates of U.S. neutrality in World War II. In April 1941, at a press conference, President Franklin D. Roosevelt roundly denounced Lindbergh and likened him to the Copperhead defeatists of the Civil War. Colonel Lindbergh promptly sent a letter to Roosevelt, stating that because of "implications . . . concerning my loyalty to my country, my character and my motives, I can see no honorable alternative to tendering my resignation as colonel in the United States
After Pearl Harbor, Lindbergh offered his services to the Air Corps, saying "Now that war has come, we must meet it as united Americans, regardless of our attitude in the past." He was told that his statement was "not enough." that in order to regain his commission he would have to take back everything he had said in the past. Lindbergh refused, went to work as a civilian consultant to the Ford Motor Co. and United Aircraft, helped in the design of the Navy's Corsair. In 1944 he went to the Pacific as a civilian technician...
Charles A. Lindbergh, a greying 52 and still a working airman, sold the movie rights to his bestselling The Spirit...
...Millions of men now living do not have to be told how "our hero" got out of that one, or out of a thousand similar adventures that made him the favorite of three generations of U.S. boys. When Charles A. Lindbergh hopped the Atlantic in 1927, they were the ones who cheered but were not surprised. How could they have been? Ever since 1910, smart, modest, infinitely courageous Tom Swift had been flying everything from balloons to transcontinental airline expresses, had, besides, invented his own submarine, photo-telephone, electric rifle and enough other practical wonders to make Ford and Edison...
...best fiction. Two of the best, and bestselling as well, were by Frenchmen: Maurice Herzog's thriller about the scaling of Annapurna (see CINEMA) and J. Y. Cousteau's eerily poetic description of deep-sea diving, The Silent World. Finest of the field was Charles Lindbergh's recollection of his flight across the Atlantic in 1927, The Spirit of St. Louis...