Roger Smith Collection. 1927 - 1934. Motion Picture Films. 1927 - 1934. MOVIETONE NEWS: LINDBERGH'S FLIGHT FROM N.Y. TO PARIS

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Roger Smith Collection. 1927 - 1934. Motion Picture Films. 1927 - 1934. MOVIETONE NEWS: LINDBERGH'S FLIGHT FROM N.Y. TO PARIS

1927

NEWSREEL: Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh leaves Curtis Field, Long Island on May 20. On his return to the U.S., he is received by Pres. Coolidge and presented with the Distinguished Flying Cross on June 11 in Washington, D.C. Shots of Lindbergh's take-off and awarding of the medal.

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National Archives at College Park

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Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. At the age of 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize for making a nonstop flight from New York City to Paris. Lindbergh covered the ​33 1⁄2-hour, 3,600-statute-mile (5,800 km) flight alone in a purpose-built, single-engine Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis. While the first non-...

Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933

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