Lindbergh - The wartime journals of Charles A. Lindbergh

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

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The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh

BOOKS BY CHARLES A. LINDBERGH

We

The Culture of Organs

{with Alexis Carrel)

Of Flight and Life The Spirit of St. Louis

The Wartime Journals

The

Wartime

Journals

of

Charles A. Lindbergh

HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH, INC., NEW YORK

Copyright 1970 by Charles A. Lindbergh

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

isbn 0-15-194625-6

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 78-124830 Printed in the United States of America

Introduction

ix

Europe Prewar

i

United States Prewar

United States Wartime

Pacific Wartime

Europe Postwar

Acknowledgments

1001

Glossary

1003

Index

1013

Between pages 174 and 175 August Lindbergh and family Dr. Charles Henry Land Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr.

Evangeline Lindbergh and son, Charles, 1902 Evangeline Lindbergh, about 1930 Dwight W. Morrow Mrs. Dwight Morrow Next Day Hill Long Barn

Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Thor at Long Bam Viscount and Lady Astor Cliveden

Colonel Lindbergh flying his Mohawk The house and chapel on Illiec The tidelands of Illiec

Major Arthur Vanaman, Colonel Lindbergh, and Field Marshal Erhard Milch

Field Marshal Erhard Milch and General Ernst Udet Colonel Truman Smith and Colonel Lindbergh

Colonel Lindbergh, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering

Colonel Lindbergh and Michel Detroyat

Between pages 366 and 367

Bronze head of Anne Morrow Lindbergh by Charles Despiau

Edouard Daladier William C. Bullitt Joseph P. Kennedy

Neville Chamberlain David Lloyd George Colonel Lindbergh and P-36 fighter National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Orville Wright

Igor Sikorsky piloting his helicopter, the VS-300 Lauren D. Lyman Juan T. Trippe Dr. Alexis Carrel Mme. Alexis Carrel

Harry Guggenheim, Robert Goddard, and Charles Lindbergh at Mescalero Ranch

Robert Goddard in control shack on Mescalero Ranch Anne Morrow Lindbergh Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Land Soeur Lisi and Jon Land, Colonel Lindbergh, and Jon Anne Morrow Lindbergh and James Newton on the Aldebaran The Aldebaran in Everglades

Between pages 622 and 623

America First Committee rally in Chicago

Colonel Lindbergh speaking at America First Committee rally in Fort Wayne, Indiana

America First Committee rally in New York

Colonel Lindbergh testifying at a congressional hearing on Lend-Lease bill

Harry F. Byrd Herbert Hoover

Henry Ford II, Colonel Lindbergh, Leslie Morris,

Henry Ford, Igor Sikorsky

Charles E. Sorensen and Russell Gnau Admiral Emory Scott Land Harry Bennett

B-24 Liberator bombers at Willow Run Altitude chamber of the Aeromedical Unit, Mayo Clinic

Anne Morrow Lindbergh and children General Robert B. McClure and Colonel Lindbergh Major Joseph J. Foss and Colonel Lindbergh 475th Fighter Group camp area Campsite of the 432nd Squadron, 475th Group

Between pages 814 and 815

Major Thomas B. McGuire and Colonel Lindbergh P-38 Lockheed Lightnings Light bombers, New Guinea B-24 Liberator bomber attack in the Pacific Barge strafing along New Guinea coast Japanese air base in New Guinea Colonel Charles H. MacDonald Colonel Lindbergh and General George C. Kenney F4U Vought Corsair

Colonel Lindbergh and General Ennis Whitehead General Douglas MacArthur

General Carl A. Spaatz, Colonel Lindbergh, and General James H. Doolittle

Antoine de Saint-Exupery Refugees in Germany at end of World War II Munich after the war Ruins in a German city The Russian occupation of Berlin, 1945

T

JL H E quarter century that has passed since the ending of World War II has dimmed our recollection, which is reason enough for us to be interested in reading a unique record of that terrible time. But the years have also lessened our sense of certitude. The past is always compromised by the present: many of the assurances of long ago, on re-examination, turn into questions and speculations. Both the exercise of memory and the writing of history tend to make it so, however different they are in resource. The historian will attempt to read the whole record of the past so far as he is able, but since he cannot write the whole record, he will select those events and circumstances that accommodate his thesis or his bias or his style or whatever. Those selected items of occurrence become, as Max Weber concluded, the facts of history.