Lt. Quentin Roosevelt, the youngest son of former President Theodore Roosevelt and a pilot with the 95th Aero Squadron, is shot down behind German lines. Roosevelt’s Nieuport 28 crashes at Chamery, France, near Coulonges en Tardenois, and his body is buried by the Germans near the crash site. A cross is fashioned from wooden parts of the aircraft.
A new Air Force plan for how many fighters it needs in the next decade marks a sharp upturn from what it thought it needed just seven years ago. But analysts worry that the aspirational plan now in Congress' hands doesn’t make a tight enough connection to national strategy.
