Identifier1989-12-12_image_037Parts1989-12-12_image_037_01SourceThe Herman J. Sommerhauser World War I Photograph Album (1989-12-12), Folder 1DescriptionPhotograph of a memorial near a crashed aircraft at Roosevelt Field, New York, circa 1919. The gravestone reads: "Here lies Old Man Flying of Roosevelt Field. Because he got eager and pulled the rough deal / Grass cutting advanced flying was his error, / And into this grave he was shoved in terror. May 16, 1919."
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[Memorial near crashed aircraft at Roosevelt Field], [1989-12-12_image_037]. Museum of Flight Digital Collections, accessed 13/12/2025, https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/nodes/view/1427
