LINDBERGH RETURNS
TREMENDOUS WELCOME
PRESIDENTIAL SALUTE
(A.P.A. and "Sun.")
WASHINGTON, 11th June.
The most stupendous welcome ever accorded an individual American . was given Captain. Lindbergh on arrival'in the cruiser Memphis. Practically the entire population of the capital and hundreds of thousands of visitors, many of whom had lined the streets since dawn, broke into a huge roar of greeting and continued cheering, in a fine frenzy of excitement, from the moment the vessel appeared in sight. The dirigible Los Angeles, with some scores of Government and private aeroplanes, escorted the Memphis into dock. Guns and sirens from launches and other craft and from-the- shore saluted the airman as the cruiser proceeded up the Potomac, and a Presidential salute of twenty-one guns was fired at Alexandria s aport, on the right bank of the Potomac five miles southward from the capital.
Lindbergh's ■ mother was the first to board the cruiser, where Robert Nungesser, brother of the lost French airman, also greeted Lindbergh.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 136, 13 June 1927, Page 9
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