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Tri-County Independent
WAYNE & PIKE - Charles A. Lindbergh, the famed aviator who was first to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1927, was descended from one of Wayne County, Pa. s early non-native settlers, and visited here at least once to look up his roots, in later years.
Lindbergh also made headlines here a year after his solo transatlantic flight, when one of his planes crashed in the woods of Pike County, killing two aviators (Lindbergh was not aboard).
A sketch of Lindbergh
First, here is a brief account of Charles Augustus Lindbergh. He was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1902.
Following his passion, he learned to fly in 1922 and was soon barnstorming in the Mid-West as a wing walker and parachutist. In 1924 he entered the United States Army Air Service and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Air Service Reserve Corps. ....

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