One of us: Quentin Roosevelt
Alan Toelle chronicles Quentin Roosevelt’s service as an aviator during World War I. Toelle covers Roosevelt’s various assignments and his decision to forgo service with a front line combat unit early in his career despite his and his brothers’ eagerness for him to see combat. Toelle notes Roosevelt’s brief combat career–two missions–the second of which ended in his death. Toelle mentions many of Roosevelt’s fellow aviators, and he concludes his article by quoting at length from a letter written by Warwick Greene who served with Roosevelt.
Three photographs supplement the text, including one of Roosevelt with his squadron mates and one in his airplane named “Doc Yak.” An text box with an advertisement for the League of World War One Aviation Historians, of which Toelle is a member, appears at the conclusion of the essay.