Quentin Roosevelt

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Quentin Roosevelt I (November 19, 1897 – July 14, 1918) was the youngest son of President Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Roosevelt. Inspired by his father and siblings, he joined the United States Army Air Service where he became a pursuit pilot during World War I and shot down one German aircraft. He was killed in aerial combat over France on Bastille Day (July 14), 1918. He is the only child of a U.S. president to have been killed in action.

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Childhood Quentin was born in Washington, D.C., the youngest child of Theodore Roosevelt's household, which included half-sister Alice, sister Ethel, and brothers Ted (Theodore III), Kermit, and Archie. Quentin was three years old when his father became president, and he grew up in the White House. By far the favorite of all of President Roosevelt's children, Quentin was also the most rambunctious. Quentin's behavior prompted his mother, Edith, to label him a "fine bad little boy". Amongst Quentin's many adventures with the "White House Gang" (a name assigned by T.R. to Quentin and his friends), Quentin carved a baseball diamond on the White House lawn without permission, defaced official presidential portraits in the White House with spitballs, threw snowballs from the White House's roof at unsuspecting Secret Service guards, and occasionally rode on top of the family elevator with his friend, Charlie Taft, the son of Secretary of War and future President William Howard Taft. The Secret Service were alarmed to see a fire and smoke behind the White House, only to see Quentin with a makeshift brick chimney baking some potatoes. He quickly became known for his humorous and sometimes philosophical remarks. To a reporter trying to trap the…Citește mai mult

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Education Quentin started his education at Force Elementary School and then attended the Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia. Later he was a student at the Evans School for Boys and Groton School. Quentin consistently scored high marks and displayed the intellectual prowess of his father. He was admitted to Harvard College in 1915. By the time Quentin was a sophomore at Harvard, also like his father, he was showing promise as a writer. Quentin was posthumously awarded an A.B. (War Degree) by Harvard, Class of 1919.

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Personal life Quentin was engaged to Flora Payne Whitney, the elder daughter of Harry Payne Whitney and Gertrude Vanderbilt. Gertrude was a great-granddaughter of the shipping and railroad millionaire, "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt. Harry objected to Flora's relationship with Quentin because Harry disapproved of the Roosevelt family in general and the liberal Republican Theodore Roosevelt in particular. Quentin's letters to Flora and his father charted the course of America's entry into the war. While Theodore and Quentin were initially neutral, Theodore was incensed over the sinking of the British passenger ship RMS Lusitania in May 1915, in which 128 Americans drowned. Theodore campaigned vigorously on behalf of the 1916 Republican presidential nominee, Charles Evans Hughes, during which he severely criticized Woodrow Wilson. Wilson was reelected on a neutrality platform, but took the country to war during his second term. Quentin came to agree with his father, writing to Flora in early 1917 from Harvard University, where he was studying: "We are a pretty sordid lot, aren't we, to want to sit looking on while England and France fight our battles and pan gold into our pockets."

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Military service All the Roosevelt sons had military training prior to World War I. With the outbreak of war in Europe in August 1914, there was a heightened concern about the nation's readiness for military engagement. Only the month before, Congress had belatedly recognized the significance of military aviation by authorizing the creation of an Aviation Section in the Signal Corps. In 1915, Major General Leonard Wood, a friend of Theodore Roosevelt since the Rough Rider days, organized a summer camp at Plattsburgh, New York, to provide military training for business and professional men at their own expense. It would be this summer training program that would provide the basis of a greatly expanded junior officers corps when the country entered World War I. During August 1915, many well-heeled young men from some of the finest East Coast schools, including Quentin Roosevelt and two of his brothers, attended the camp. When the United States entered the war, commissions were offered to the graduates of these schools based on their performance. The National Defense Act of 1916 continued the student military training and the businessmen's summer camps and placed them on a firmer legal basis by authorizing an Officers' Reserve Corps…Citește mai mult

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Air service in France Finally sent to France, Lieutenant Roosevelt first helped in setting up the large Air Service training base at Issoudun. He was a supply officer and then, in time, ran one of the training airfields. Eventually, he became a pilot in the 95th Aero Squadron, part of the 1st Pursuit Group. The unit was posted to Touquin, France and, on July 9, 1918, Saints, France. During the time that he was flying from Saints, he was billeted just half a mile away at Melina Thibault's home in Mauperthuis, France where he roomed with supply officer Ed Thomas. Roosevelt had one confirmed kill of a German aircraft during the German spring offensive, which he shot down on July 10, 1918. Four days later, in a massive aerial engagement at the commencement of the Second Battle of the Marne, he was himself shot down behind German lines. Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, commander of the 94th Aero Squadron (also known as the "Hat-in-the-Ring" Squadron), in his memoirs described Roosevelt's character as a soldier and pilot in the following words: As President Roosevelt's son, he had rather a difficult task to fit himself in with the democratic style of living which is…Citește mai mult

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Final combat flight and death Three German pilots have been credited with Quentin Roosevelt's shootdown and death at various times, and all three may have been responsible. Leutnant Karl Thom of Jasta 21, one of the leading German flying aces of the war, was in the vicinity with confirmed kills nearby; he was often credited with the downing but never made a formal claim. Leutnant Christian Donhauser of Jasta 17 claimed credit and later publicized himself as Roosevelt's killer. Sergeant Carl Graeper of Jasta 50 also claimed responsibility, though if he did fire the fatal shots, it would have been his only victory of the war. All three may have been engaged in the dogfight in which Roosevelt was killed. In 1921, Quentin's brother Kermit Roosevelt published Quentin Roosevelt: A Sketch with Letters, a collection of Quentin's correspondence and tributes written after his death. Pages 169–171 describe the circumstances of his final flight. One letter was written by American pilot Lieutenant Edward Buford, who had witnessed Roosevelt’s last mission and later described the events to his family. Kermit also included an intercepted German communiqué of 14 July 1918 describing the engagement, which stated that Roosevelt had shown "conspicuous bravery" before…Citește mai mult

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Leutnant Q. Roosevelt Honored and Buried by the Imperial German Army Broken propeller blades and the remains of his aircraft were placed near the grave. American engineers later marked the site with a cross inscribed: The French also placed an oaken enclosure with an inscription:

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English translation: Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt, Squadron 95, fallen gloriously in aerial combat, 14 July 1918, for right and liberty. After Allied forces regained control of the area, Roosevelt’s grave became a place of pilgrimage for American soldiers. His death was deeply felt by his father, Theodore Roosevelt, who had strongly supported his son's decision to join the war. Theodore himself died less than six months later. In 1955, eleven years after the establishment of the World War II American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, Roosevelt's remains were reinterred there beside his eldest brother, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., who had died in 1944 after leading troops during the Normandy landings and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Quentin’s original gravestone was moved to Sagamore Hill as a cenotaph, while the German-made wooden cross that had marked his original grave is preserved at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio.

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Commemorations In June 2007, several Roosevelt family members as well as members of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) visited the small monument in France at the French village over which Quentin was shot down in 1918. Their purpose was to restore the monument and prepare a report to the TRA on the work accomplished by this trip. Quentin Roosevelt II (1919–1948), the third and youngest son of Ted, was named after Quentin, and also died in a plane crash. On July 14, 2008, on the 90th anniversary of Quentin's death, the villages of Saints, Mauperthuis and Touquin held a commemoration of Quentin Roosevelt. Roosevelt was billeted in the village of Mauperthuis and based in Saints at the time of his death. On Sainte-Marie-à-Py the Aux Morts des Armées de Champagne monument was made in 1923 by sculptor Maxime Real del Sarte. On June 28, 2009, on the 90th anniversary of the departure of the USAS from Issoudun, Issoudun held a ceremony in honor of the American aviators and also included Quentin Roosevelt's name on the new plaque. The community of Quentin, Pennsylvania, in Lebanon County, was named for Quentin Roosevelt. There is a street in Château-Thierry, France named rue Quentin…Citește mai mult

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Photos of the First Pursuit Group Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's Account of Quentin's Death during World War I Nine American Squadrons, Online French & English Account of US Army Air Corps Ops in France. German propaganda photo of Quetin's body beside his crashed airplane July 14, 2008 Commemoration of Quentin Roosevelt and 1st Pursuit Group Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library Archived 2012-04-22 at the Wayback Machine at the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University Historic film footage of Captain Quentin Roosevelt during World War I period. View from 2:07 to end of clip. Historian David Pietrusza discusses Quentin Roosevelt's death on the occasion of its Centenary – C-SPAN Works by Quentin Roosevelt at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

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Literature Eric Burns: The golden Lad; the haunting Story of Quentin and Theodore Roosevelt. Pegasus Books, New York, 2016, ISBN 978-1-60598-951-8