Word: quentin
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...aviation and the role it will play in the future. In a recent editorial, the New York Tribune states, "Undoubtedly the Intercollegiate Aerial Tournaments will receive government support. Should there be another war the colleges will be able to turn out hosts of trained eaglets of the type of Quentin Roosevelt and Hobey Baker, ready for service. Trained collegiate aviators will make the United States air service a real factor the next time it is called upon. The transcontinental intercollegiate air race is not merely a possibility but a probability in the near future...
...Quentin Roosevelt, of Oyster...
Colonel Raynal Cawthorne Bolling '00, of New York, former Chief of the Air Service, who has previously been reported missing was killed in France last March; it was learned yesterday. While passing in an automobile along the Amiens-St. Quentin road near Estrees he was surprised by a party of Germans, and shot down after a short one-sided fight...
Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt '19, and Captain Douglas Campbell '17, are mentioned in French Army citations. Lieutenant Roosevelt is referred to as "an excellent pilot and scout, possessing the highest qualities of courage and devotion to duty." The order concludes "He gloriously fell in the course of an aerial combat on July...
...January 12, 1919, of complications resulting from wounds received in accident last September. He received a bul in the lungs at the action in which 27th and 30th American Divisions, operating with the Army of Sir Douglas Haig captured the defenses of the denburg line between Cambrai and Quentin. After treatment in army capitals in France and England, Corp. Vought was invalided to the Columbia Hospital, New York. He was on rough from there at the time of his with...