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Quentin Roosevelt II (November 4, 1919 – December 21, 1948) was the fourth child and youngest son of Theodore "Ted" Roosevelt III and Eleanor Butler Alexander. He was the namesake of his uncle Quentin Roosevelt I, who was killed in action in 1918 during World War I.
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.
Jul 2, 2018 · Quentin Roosevelt II was a Harvard dropout who joined the U.S. Army Air Service in 1917 and became a fighter pilot in the 95th Aero Squadron. He was killed in action in July 1918, fighting against German planes near Chamery, France, and was buried with military honors by the Germans.
Mar 12, 2022 · Quentin Roosevelt was the youngest child of President Theodore Roosevelt and a volunteer pilot in World War I. He died at 20 in a plane crash over France, but not before proposing to his fiancée and writing his parents.
- Kaleena Fraga
Quentin Roosevelt II (November 4, 1919 – December 21, 1948) was the fourth child and youngest son of Theodore "Ted" Roosevelt III and Eleanor Butler Alexander. He was the namesake of his uncle Quentin Roosevelt I, who was killed in action in 1918 during World War I.
Nov 5, 2009 · On July 14, 1918, Quentin Roosevelt, a pilot in the United States Air Service and the fourth son of former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, is shot down and killed by a German Fokker plane...
Quentin, the youngest son, was killed during aerial combat near Chaméry, France, on July 14, 1918. Had he survived the first world war, Quentin would have surely followed his three older brothers’ example of volunteering for military service in both world wars.
