Charles Lindbergh Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/charles-lindbergh/ Mechanically-minded travel Wed, 06 May 2026 09:04:25 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 The Civilian Who Shot Down a WW2 Japanese War Plane https://mechtraveller.com/2018/05/the-civilian-who-shot-down-a-ww2-japanese-war-plane/ https://mechtraveller.com/2018/05/the-civilian-who-shot-down-a-ww2-japanese-war-plane/#comments Fri, 04 May 2018 16:09:37 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=3259 It wasn’t just any civilian*, it was one of America’s most famous celebrities at the time, Charles A. Lindbergh. Lindbergh, famous for making the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris in his single-engined Spirit of St Louis aircraft in 1927, wasn’t supposed to be in the South-West Pacific theatre in May […]

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