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WWI US AIR SERVICE UNIFORM NAMED P. ROOSEVELT WW1

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WWI US AIR SERVICE UNIFORM NAMED P. ROOSEVELT WW1
WWI US AIR SERVICE UNIFORM NAMED P. ROOSEVELT WW1
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Lot of two uniform jackets identified to Philip Roosevelt, cousin of United States President Theodore Roosevelt. Both uniforms jackets are clearly tailored by the same company F. J. Heiberger & Son of Washington DC. but only one of the coats is named. The clothier tag reads Capt. P. J. Roosevelt 9/20/17. Both jackets are in excellent condition with standard US Collar devices with one of the coats having a 1st Army Aero Squadron Shoulder Patch and two gold overseas chevrons. Both tunics are in excellent condition.  Military service: He was an original member of the Raynal Bolling's 1st Aero Company of the New York National Guard. He did not qualify as a military aviator due to his eyesight, but as a military-aviation journalist he was a prominent aerial warfare expert. Immediately after United States Congress declared war on 6 April 1917, the Signal Corps summoned Roosevelt to Washington to help plan the aviation mobilization. He impressed Benjamin Delahauf Foulois and accompanied him to France. Foulois paired Roosevelt with major Bert Atkinson, but they had the command organization that resulted from the American Expeditionary Force’s inexperience in coalition warfare. They operated under the French Sixth Army, but two different American headquarters (including Colonel Billy Mitchell's 1st Air Brigade headquarters) felt that they held jurisdiction. The two planned America's first-ever air-land battle at a time when the US Army was still learning the nuances of command relationships between the pursuit and observation groups and the corps and armies they supported. The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was certified as ratified on January 29, 1919, and the National Prohibition Act, passed in the United States Congress over United States President Woodrow Wilson's veto on October 28, 1919. In November 1919, during prohibition, Roosevelt served as president of a joint venture with Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Kermit Roosevelt, Archibald Roosevelt, Ethel Roosevelt Derby and her husband Richard Derby, opening a coffeehouse named the Brazilian Coffeehouse at 108 West 44th Street in Manhattan, New York. The coffeehouse was renamed the Double R, and moved to 112 W. 44th in 1921. It was managed by the Roosevelts until 1928.
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WWI US AIR SERVICE UNIFORM NAMED P. ROOSEVELT WW1

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