Though he participated in over fifty missions as a civilian with a confirmed kill of a Japanese captain , he was denied an Army commission during World War II as a result of his earlier involvement with the isolationist group America First.
Though he participated in over fifty missions as a civilian with a confirmed kill of a Japanese captain , he was denied an Army commission during World War II as a result of his earlier involvement with the isolationist group America First. His greatest accomplishment, two decades earlier, earned him the Medal of Honor from the U.S., the German Eagle from Hermann Goering, and the Orteig prize, and he settled in Kent to escape press attention over his son's abduction by Bruno Hauptmann. For ten points, name this man still thought of as an American hero for flying solo across the Atlantic from New York to Paris.
Though he participated in over fifty missions as a civilian with a confirmed kill of a Japanese captain , he was denied an Army commission during World War II as a result of his earlier involvement with the isolationist group America First.
Charles (Augustus) {Lindbergh}, Sr.