San Diego – Photos tucked away for 90 years in a California newspaper’s archives portray Charles Lindbergh just weeks before he made the first-ever nonstop solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
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The San Diego Union-Tribune on Sunday (http://bit.ly/2pdP8ny ) released never-before-published shots of Lindbergh from April 28, 1927.
Harry Bishop, chief photographer for what was then the Union and Evening Tribune, shot the 25-year-old as he climbed for the first time into the cockpit of the Spirit of St. Louis, the plane custom-built in San Diego by Ryan Airlines.
The newspaper published a few photos from the test flight. The rest were archived for nearly a century.
Three weeks after they were taken, Lindbergh and his aircraft made history by flying from New York to Paris, 3,610 miles (5809 kilometers) in 33 hours.
Lindburgh was an anti-semite, who was buddy buddy with officials of the Luftwaffe, and the Third Reich. He seemed to adore the Nazi regime. He made speeches prior to Pearl Harbor, blaming the Jews, for wanting to go to war in Europe. Also, he questioned what he perceived as Jewish control of the media. He was silenced after Pearl Harbor, and was denied a commission in the U.S. Armed Forces.
The National Geographic magazine wrote about him in glowing terms as a symbol of the perfect northern european aryan.