Charles Lindbergh
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Biographical
Charles Augustus Lindbergh was born February 4, 1902, in Detroit, Michigan to Evangeline and Charles August, better known as C.A. Lindbergh. Charles Lindbergh grew up on a farm in Little Falls, Minnesota. When Charles Lindbergh was 18 years old he attended the college of University of Wisconsin’s Madison Campus and studied mechanical engineering. A year or two after he got into college he dropped out to help fly planes for the army. After his famous flight he met poet Anne Morrow and they got married. Charles and Anne had six children and their oldest son Charles Augustus Lindbergh,Jr. got kidnapped and killed when he was 20 months old on March 1, 1932. Charles sadly got diagnosed with cancer in 1974 and that same year on August 26 died in Maui, Hawaii.
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His Character
Charles Lindbergh was very brave. He was the first person to fly across the unknown Atlantic Ocean for thirty three and a half hours without stopping. Also, in his plane there was no copilot to help him through the tough journey, no front window to see where he was going, navigator, or radio. Lastly, hundreds of people who tried flying from New York to Paris or Paris to New York failed and either died or got seriously injured. Charles Lindbergh was also really shy. After his famous flight and becoming very popular he tried his hardest to become a more private person. Charles Lindbergh would also constantly move away from crowds and move to more private places. Last, when Charles Lindbergh was a boy he never had any friends and was too shy to make them.