In July 1918, the youngest son of former President Theodore Roosevelt entered the massive aerial fight on World War I's Western Front.
A promising U.S. Army pilot, Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt made his first confirmed kill on July 10th. But just four days later, the 20-year-old was surrounded by German planes and shot down.
When German forces realized that they had killed the son of a president, they took the extraordinary step of holding a military funeral for him. More than 1,000 German soldiers reportedly looked on as Roosevelt was buried under a wooden cross that was held together with wire from the wreckage of his plane.
Meanwhile, in the United States, the Roosevelts mourned their loss and the country grieved alongside them — with one town in Pennsylvania even changing its name to Quentin in honor of the fallen soldier.
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