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Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time … I once saw a man kill a lion with a 30-30 caliber rifle under certain conditions, but that doesn’t mean that a 30-30 rifle is a lion gun.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr, U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Regards Billy Mitchell’s experimental sinking of the captured German battleship Ostfreisland. 1921. Quoted in the 1967 book The Billy Mitchell Affair.
It was great! First class! It was the finest experience I have ever had. I wish I could stay up for an hour, but I haven't the time this afternoon.
President Theodore Roosevelt III
First President of the United States of America to fly aboard an airplane, Kinloch Field, St. Louis, Missouri, (now, Lambert–St. Louis International Airport), to pilot Arch Hoxsey of the Wright demonstration team after he flew the former president in a Wright Model B on 11 October 1910. Widely reported, including in the New-York Tribune newspaper, 12 October 1910.
Physical address, high training, entire fearlessness, iron nerve and fertile resourcefulness are needed in a combination and to a degree hitherto unparalled in war. The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.
Theodore Roosevelt
Letter to Henry Bordeaux, 27 June 1918. The letter was used as the preface in an Engish translation of Mr. Bordeaux’s 1918 book Guynemer: Knight of the Air.
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