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Charles Augustus Lindbergh was born February 4, 1902, in Detroit,. He attended the University of Wisconsin for two years but left to attend a flying school in Lincoln, Nebraska. He began flying in 1922, and four years later he flew a mail plane between St. Louis, Missouri, and Chicago. He decided to compete for a prize of $25,000 offered in 1919 by Raymond B. Orteig of New York City for the first nonstop transatlantic solo flight between New York City …

…a series of antiwar speeches. He was criticized as being pro-German and was forced to resign his commission in the air corps reserve and his membership in the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. During World War II, however, Lindbergh was a civilian consultant to aircraft manufacturers and was sent on missions to the Pacific area and to Europe for the U.S. Army. He died at the age of seventy-two on August 26, 1974, on Maui, Hawaii.