The museum has the cross fashioned for Lt. Roosevelt’s grave by U.S. troops, as well as other items related to him.
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The Germans had buried Roosevelt, a pilot in the 95th Aero Squadron, at the crash site and marked it with a cross made from basswood saplings and wire from his plane.
U.S. troops found his grave after German’s retreated and made a new cross for it.
His remains were later exhumed and buried at St. Laurent-sur-Mer beside his brother, Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., who died of a heart attack in Normandy after the World War II D-Day invasion of France, according to the museum website.
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