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YOUNG LINDY

Young Lindy and the Chorus take Charles back to his boyhood in Little Falls, MN and Washington D.C. These memories past become his present, as Charles relives swimming in the Mississippi River, traveling east by train, and his lonely days living with his mother in Washington. Saddened by difficult memories, the older Charles wonders if he really is brave enough to fly across the Atlantic.

But then he experiences again his success in Army Flight School, when he graduated top in his class. Confidence restored, Charles puts on his goggles and starts to taxi the Spirit of St. Louis down the runway. After he clears a telephone line by just twenty feet, Lindbergh is on his way to Paris and his place in history.