nd a half hours he was flying, Lindbergh claims he saw phantoms in the rear fuselage around five a.m., and they gave him messages of importance, unattainable in ordinary life. After missing the Le Bourget airport and having to circle back around, he finally landed at 10:24 p.m. Paris time and was met with great crowds of working people. It was said that later after he landed and the plane was put in the hangar, he went to check on it and found pieces had been ripped off as souvenirs but they found that it had not been damaged badly. After this flight, Lindbergh became an international celebrity. He was honored with awards, celebrations, and parades. When he returned to New York on June 10, 1927, the streets were lined with 3,000,000 - 4,000,000 people coming to see him and welcome him home. Fitzhugh Green said of Lindberghs homecoming, Caesar was glum when he came back from Gaul Napoleon grim; Paul Jones defiant...Lindbergh was none of these. He was a plain citizen dressed in the garments of an ordinary man. He received his 25,000 dollar prize on June 16,1927 and received a similar amount just a few days later from Vacuum Oil Company (this was the oil company that hed used for his plane). Lindbergh was offered many endorsements, which totaled over 5,000,000 dollars, but he turned them all down. Some of his more esteemed awards were the Congressional Medal of Honor (the first time it was ever awarded to someone not involved in a war) and the first ever Distinguished Flying Cross, both given to him by President Calvin Coolidge. Lindbergh was later asked by the United States government if he would fly to various Latin-American countries as a symbol of American good will. Some of the countries were Guatemala, British Honduras, Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, and perhaps most importantly, Mexico. It was in Mexico that he met Anne Spencer Morrow, daughter of the American ambassador. It was announced on ...
