Charles Lindbergh was an early pioneer of aviation famous for his solo non-stop flight from Roosevelt Field in New York City to
Le Bourget Field in Paris in the single-seat, single-engine monoplane Spirit of St. Louis. Lindbergh, an Army reserve officer,
was also awarded the nation's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his historic exploit.
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Lindbergh used his fame to relentlessly help promote the rapid development of U.S. commercial aviation.
In the later 1930s and up until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Lindbergh was an outspoken advocate of keeping the U.S. out of the world
conflict (as was his Congressman father during World War I) and became a leader of the anti-war America First movement. Nonetheless, he
supported the war effort after Pearl Harbor and flew many combat missions in the Pacific Theater as a civilian consultant.
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