The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh (3 page)

Charles at age six with his mother, Evangeline, ca. 1908
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“
Slim
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Lindbergh in his early flying days, ca. 1925
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Second Lieutenant Lindbergh graduated top of his class at the U.S. Army’s flying school
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In England crowds mobbed the
Spirit of St. Louis
following Lindbergh’s historic 1927 New York to Paris flight
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The
Spirit of St. Louis
soars past the Eiffel Tower
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Lindbergh receives a warm welcome home with a Wall Street ticker tape parade
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Charles and Anne, whom Lindbergh married in 1929, became famous as a flying team with around-the-world aerial explorations
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One-year-old Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. at Highfields, the Lindbergh estate
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Accused kidnapper Bruno Richard Hauptmann is led into court, January 1935
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A B-25 bomber takes off from the deck of the USS
Hornet,
April 18, 1942
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News of the Doolittle raid made front-page headlines around the world
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Doolittle and some of his raiders and their Chinese friends. All sixteen planes either crash-landed or were abandoned by bail out
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