Charles Lindbergh Quotes


It [aviation] is a tool specially shaped for Western hands, a scientific art which others only copy in a mediocre fashion, another barrier between the teeming millions of Asia and the Grecian inheritance of Europe, one of those priceless possessions which permit the White race to live at all in a pressing sea of Yellow, Black, and Brown.


Context

Lindbergh, a great aviator, was a Fascist who was a great admirer and supporter of Hitler and Mussolini. He appeared to be tragically foolish, when 2 years later, the Japanese, with almost perfect precision, carried out the then largest and most successful air attack when they bombed and strafed Pearl Harbor. The entire attack was made from aircraft carrier based planes, the hardest and most technically complex of air operations.


Citations

Charles Lindbergh, 1902-1974, Aviator, Spokesman, America First Committee, "Aviation, Race and Geography," Readers Digest, November 1939

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Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh
  • Born: February 4, 1902
  • Died: August 26, 1974
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Aviator, Author, Inventor, Explorer, Activist

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, nicknamed Slim, Lucky Lindy, and The Lone Eagle, was an American aviator, author, inventor, military officer, explorer, and social activist. In 1927, at the age of 25, Lindbergh emerged from the virtual obscurity of a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-winning solo nonstop flight from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York, to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France. He flew the distance of nearly 3,600 statute miles (5,800 km) in a single-seat, single-engine, purpose-built Ryan monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis. Lindbergh was the 19th person to make a Transatlantic flight, the first being the Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown from Newfoundland in 1919, but Lindbergh's flight was almost twice the distance. The record-setting flight took 33 1⁄2 hours. Lindbergh, a U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve officer, was also awarded the nation's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his historic exploit. Politically, the National Hero became an active fascist supporter of Mussolini and Adolph Hitler who awarded him a Medal for Supporting Fascism, Anti-Semitism and advocating for America to allow Hitler to conquer German and the rest of Europe. After WWII he was in disgrace.