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Home Town Manhattan, NYC, New York
Last Address Scottsdale, Arizona
Date of Passing Oct 27, 1990
Wall/Plot Coordinates Cremated, Ashes given to family or friend
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Without higher education and no prior military experience to his credit, Elliott Roosevelt was commissioned as a Captain upon enlistment in the USAAF, and his promotion to BrigGen after only 5 years' service was approved by Congress on a 53-11 Senate vote. Despite such unusual favoritsm, his performance as a combat recce pilot was outstanding by most accounts.
Elliott was named after his mother's father.
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Assigned to Twelfth Air Force, command and control organization that provided photographic reconnaissance to both Twelfth and Fifteenth Air Forces. Operationally controlled both 3d and 5th Reconnaissance Groups in Tunisia. The 90th's subordinate units reconnoitered airdromes, roads, marshaling yards, and harbors in Italy after the Allied landings at Salerno.
325th Reconnaissance Wing, 9 August 1944-17 January 1945 at the rank of colonel; 22 January-13 April 1945 ending at the rank of brigadier general.
Assigned to Eighth Air Force, command and control organization that through subordinate units, flew reconnaissance over the waters adjacent to the British Isles and the European continent to obtain meteorological data. Wing aircraft collected weather information needed in planning operations; flew night photographic missions to detect enemy activity; and provided daylight photographic and mapping missions. The wing also flew photographic missions over the Netherlands in support of Operation Market Garden in September 1944 and operated closely with tactical units in the Battle of the Bulge (December 1944-February 1945).
