World Battlefronts: Elliott in Action

Newsmen in North Africa last week discovered Lieut. Colonel Elliott Roosevelt at the head of a photographic unit in Major General Jimmy Doolittle's Twelfth Air Force. Said Roosevelt's pilot, Major Harry Eidson: "You've got to hand it to Roosevelt. That plane we fly is just big enough for two of us, and he is a big man —so big he cannot even wear a parachute. You know what that would mean if we got winged. That takes what we politely call fortitude."

Up from captain since he joined the Air Forces in 1940, the President's second oldest son (32) is a veteran...

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