January 23

On January 23, 1941 Charles A. Lindbergh appeals to the House of Foreign Affairs Committee on the Lend-Lease Act. He suggests to the committee that negotiations are made with Hitler to form nuetrality with Germany. His earlier denunciations of "the British, the Jewish, and the Roosevelt Administration" as instigators to the United States' involvement in the war cost him his support of other isolationists. Eventually in 1941 Roosevelt denounced Lindbergh publicly which caused him to resign as aviator from the Air Corps Reserve. He eventually returned to the Air Corps and contributed to the war effort. He flew 50 combat missions over the Pacific.