Lindbergh was an isolationist, not a Nazi sympathiser. Roosevelt smeared him as a Nazi-lover because Roosevelt wanted to get the US into WW2, just as he smeared isolationist reporters and politicians. When the US entered WW2, Lindgergh flew combat missions in the Pacific and shot down several Japanese planes, even though he was in his 40’s. He was given a medal by Hermann Goering in the 30’s, which is often cited as proof of Linbergh’s Nazi sympathies, but it was a Luftwaffe medal in commemoration of his famous flight. Lindbergh never made a “pro Hitler speech” anywhere. Sorry to see you falling for FDR’s RAT propaganda.
>>> Lindbergh was an isolationist, not a Nazi sympathiser. Roosevelt smeared him as a Nazi-lover because Roosevelt wanted to get the US into WW2
Yes he was no traitor. When Goering gave him that medal, Lindy was also given the opportunity to test fly the Me-109, at the time the most advanced fighter in the air. He wrote up his impressions of the aircraft and submitted them to the Army Air Force. Useful intelligence.
“” 21 October, Lindbergh finally had the opportunity to fly a Bf109 at the Luftwaffe Test Centre at Rechlin (E’Stelle Rechlin). Laconically he noted down: ‘We next inspected the Messerschmitt 110, then passed on to the 109 I was to fly.
I got in the cockpit while one of the officers described the instruments and controls. The greatest complication lay in the necessity of adjusting the propeller pitch for take-off, cruising, and diving. Then there were the controls for the flaps, the retracting gear, for flying above 2,000 metres, for locking and unlocking the tail wheel, and for the other usual devices on a modern pursuit plane. After studying the cockpit I got out and put on a parachute, while a mechanic started the engine. Then, after taxying slowly down to the starting point, I took off.
`The plane handled beautifully. I spent a quarter of an hour familiarising myself with the instruments and controls, then spent 15 minutes more doing manoeuvres of various types - rolls, dives, Immelmanns, etc. After half an hour I landed, took off again, circled the field, and landed a second time. Then I taxied back to the line. The 109 takes off and lands as easily as it flies`. “”
However his isolationism had limits.
DNA tests confirm that pioneering American aviator Charles Lindbergh fathered three illegitimate children in Germany, their spokesman has said.
The tests prove that Dyrk and David Hesshaimer and their sister Astrid Bouteuil were the airman’s children, said media consultant Anton Schwenk.
All three sprang from a romance between Mr Lindbergh and Munich hat maker Brigitte Hesshaimer that began in 1957.
With a wife and children in the US, the pilot led a double life for decades.
The Lindbergh family in the US originally regarded the children’s claim with scepticism.
However, tests conducted by the University of Munich in October matched the children’s DNA with a sample from the airman’s grandson, Morgan Lindbergh, who agreed to take part because he thought they looked “hauntingly familiar”.
The children say they do not want to make any claim on Mr Lindbergh’s estate, but simply wanted acknowledgement that he was really their father.
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