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Show Lindbergh Due Medal of Honor Lauded for Service In Air Base Survey WASHINGTON. A congres-, sional move is under way to honor Charles A. Lindbergh for important im-portant air force assignments he has been carrying out in deep secrecy. Lindbergh's most recent job was a "hush hush" survey of possible overseas bases from which United States bombers could take off to strike back at an aggressor. During the mission, completed a few weeks ago, the famed "Lone Eagle" visited Alaska, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, India and other areas. His report and recommendations were submitted to Gen. Hoyt V. Vandenberg, Air chief of staff, for whom Lindbergh had been working work-ing directly. Tydings Urges Move Several congressmen reportedly were considering a resolution commending com-mending the slim aeronautical wizard who spanned the Atlantio alone and nonstop 22 years ago in the tiny "Spirit of S. Louis." Sen. Millard E. Tydings, (D., Maryland,) chairman of the senate armed services committee, declared: "Charles Lindbergh has rendered ren-dered wonderful service to the defense de-fense of his country for which we are very grateful." The bomb-base mission was only one in a series of secret air force assignments executed since World War II by Lindbergh. His work for the Air Force began be-gan in the last war. The "Lone Eagle," now 47 years old, went into the Pacific to study the operating opera-ting characteristics of the navy' Corsair fighter. Borrowed By AAF There he was borrowed by the air force to experiment with means of stretching the range of the P-38. In this particular field Lindbergh is recognized by aeronautical aero-nautical engineers as a genius. By carburetor refinements and other "gimmicks" he extended1 secretly the range of both the Corsair and the P-38. Lindbergh also has done outstanding out-standing work on the problem of keeping morale at a high pitch within various overseas commands com-mands since the war. Lindbergh's activities for the air force have been carried out so quietly that few- persons in Wash-, ington have known of them. He has spent two or three days outl of almost every week at air forcel headquarters in the Pentagon! when not on a traveling assignment, assign-ment, j |