Original: Nonetheless , he supported the war effort after Pearl Harbor and flew many combat missions in the Pacific Theater of World War II as a civilian consultant , even though President Franklin D. Roosevelt had refused to reinstate his Army Air Corps colonel 's commission that he had resigned earlier in 1939 .
Simplified: In April 1923 , while visiting friends in Lake Village , Arkansas , Lindbergh made his first ever flight over Lake Village and Lake Chicot .