Roosevelt Field (airport)
Roosevelt Field is a former airport, located in Westbury, Long Island, New York. Originally called the Hempstead Plains Aerodrome, or sometimes Hempstead Plains field or the Garden City Aerodrome, it was a training field for the Air Service, United States Army during World War I.
Nearly a thousand people assembled at Roosevelt Field to see Charles Lindbergh take off in the Spirit of St. Louis, May 20, 1927
Aline Hofheimer (1909–1963) painting a 126-foot fresco representing aviation history in Roosevelt Field, Long Island (c. 1935)
Quentin Roosevelt I 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. He was killed in aerial combat over France on Bastille Day, 1918. He is the only child of a U.S. president to have died in combat.
Lt. Roosevelt in the 95th Aero Squadron, WWI in France
Roosevelt Family in 1903 with Quentin on the left, TR, Ted, Archie, Alice, Kermit, Edith, and Ethel
Quentin Roosevelt and Roswell Pinckney, members of the "White House Gang" of young playmates. Theodore Roosevelt was an honorary member.
Quentin (shown here at age 13) was as gifted intellectually as his father and sailed through Groton and Harvard.
