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American aviatrix who won the Harmon Trophy for her record setting circumnavigation of South America in 1934. She flew a Lockheed Air Express from Mexico to Chile, over the Andes Mountains to Rio de Janeiro, to Cuba and then to Floyd Bennett Field in New York, marking the first flight over the Andes by an American woman, the first solo flight around South America in a land plane, the first flight by a woman from North America to South America, and setting a woman's distance record of 17,000 miles.
Ingalls is, unfortunately, also known for being charged in 1941 for violating the Foreign Agents’ Registration Act of 1938 by acting as a paid agent for Nazi Germany via the German Embassy in Washington, DC. Despite pleading that she was actually an anti-Nazi spy, she was a strong advocate for Nazi Germany and was an active in pro-Nazi activities before the US entry into WWII, and cooperated with the Gestapo chief in the German Embassy in gathering information. She was convicted and served in jail and prison from February 1942 to October 1943; she remained sympathetic to the German regime after her release. She was arrested but not prosecuted for attempting to enter Mexico in 1944 with a suitcase containing seditious material. She petitioned for a Presidential pardon in 1950, but two requests for clemency were denied.
Ingalls never married and was survived by her brother Francis Abbott Ingalls II (1895-1978), who served as a US Army officer in both WWI and WWII. Francis married Mabel Morgan Satterlee (1901–1993) in 1926. Mabel was the daughter of Herbert Livingston Satterlee and Louisa Pierpont Morgan, the daughter of Wall Street financier J. P. Morgan.
American aviatrix who won the Harmon Trophy for her record setting circumnavigation of South America in 1934. She flew a Lockheed Air Express from Mexico to Chile, over the Andes Mountains to Rio de Janeiro, to Cuba and then to Floyd Bennett Field in New York, marking the first flight over the Andes by an American woman, the first solo flight around South America in a land plane, the first flight by a woman from North America to South America, and setting a woman's distance record of 17,000 miles.
Ingalls is, unfortunately, also known for being charged in 1941 for violating the Foreign Agents’ Registration Act of 1938 by acting as a paid agent for Nazi Germany via the German Embassy in Washington, DC. Despite pleading that she was actually an anti-Nazi spy, she was a strong advocate for Nazi Germany and was an active in pro-Nazi activities before the US entry into WWII, and cooperated with the Gestapo chief in the German Embassy in gathering information. She was convicted and served in jail and prison from February 1942 to October 1943; she remained sympathetic to the German regime after her release. She was arrested but not prosecuted for attempting to enter Mexico in 1944 with a suitcase containing seditious material. She petitioned for a Presidential pardon in 1950, but two requests for clemency were denied.
Ingalls never married and was survived by her brother Francis Abbott Ingalls II (1895-1978), who served as a US Army officer in both WWI and WWII. Francis married Mabel Morgan Satterlee (1901–1993) in 1926. Mabel was the daughter of Herbert Livingston Satterlee and Louisa Pierpont Morgan, the daughter of Wall Street financier J. P. Morgan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingalls_(aviator)
American aviatrix who won the Harmon Trophy for her record setting circumnavigation of South America in 1934. She flew a Lockheed Air Express from Mexico to Chile, over the Andes Mountains to Rio de Janeiro, to Cuba and then to Floyd Bennett Field in New York, marking the first flight over the Andes by an American woman, the first solo flight around South America in a land plane, the first flight by a woman from North America to South America, and setting a woman's distance record of 17,000 miles.
Ingalls is, unfortunately, also known for being charged in 1941 for violating the Foreign Agents’ Registration Act of 1938 by acting as a paid agent for Nazi Germany via the German Embassy in Washington, DC. Despite pleading that she was actually an anti-Nazi spy, she was a strong advocate for Nazi Germany and was an active in pro-Nazi activities before the US entry into WWII, and cooperated with the Gestapo chief in the German Embassy in gathering information. She was convicted and served in jail and prison from February 1942 to October 1943; she remained sympathetic to the German regime after her release. She was arrested but not prosecuted for attempting to enter Mexico in 1944 with a suitcase containing seditious material. She petitioned for a Presidential pardon in 1950, but two requests for clemency were denied.
Ingalls never married and was survived by her brother Francis Abbott Ingalls II (1895-1978), who served as a US Army officer in both WWI and WWII. Francis married Mabel Morgan Satterlee (1901–1993) in 1926. Mabel was the daughter of Herbert Livingston Satterlee and Louisa Pierpont Morgan, the daughter of Wall Street financier J. P. Morgan.
American aviatrix who won the Harmon Trophy for her record setting circumnavigation of South America in 1934. She flew a Lockheed Air Express from Mexico to Chile, over the Andes Mountains to Rio de Janeiro, to Cuba and then to Floyd Bennett Field in New York, marking the first flight over the Andes by an American woman, the first solo flight around South America in a land plane, the first flight by a woman from North America to South America, and setting a woman's distance record of 17,000 miles.
Ingalls is, unfortunately, also known for being charged in 1941 for violating the Foreign Agents’ Registration Act of 1938 by acting as a paid agent for Nazi Germany via the German Embassy in Washington, DC. Despite pleading that she was actually an anti-Nazi spy, she was a strong advocate for Nazi Germany and was an active in pro-Nazi activities before the US entry into WWII, and cooperated with the Gestapo chief in the German Embassy in gathering information. She was convicted and served in jail and prison from February 1942 to October 1943; she remained sympathetic to the German regime after her release. She was arrested but not prosecuted for attempting to enter Mexico in 1944 with a suitcase containing seditious material. She petitioned for a Presidential pardon in 1950, but two requests for clemency were denied.
Ingalls never married and was survived by her brother Francis Abbott Ingalls II (1895-1978), who served as a US Army officer in both WWI and WWII. Francis married Mabel Morgan Satterlee (1901–1993) in 1926. Mabel was the daughter of Herbert Livingston Satterlee and Louisa Pierpont Morgan, the daughter of Wall Street financier J. P. Morgan.
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