“Roosevelt”53 pages
- p. 5 …Imprint
N March 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote to the
Director of the Bureau of…
- p. 138 …1939-4I
N 28 January 1938 President Roosevelt declared our national
defenses inadequate in the face…
- p. 141 …changed our requirements
for defensive aviation,” President Roosevelt strongly urged that $300,-
ooo,ooo be appropriated…
- p. 153 …When President Roosevelt initiated the move toward re-
I 16
- p. 160 …T h e first step was made public on 3 September 1940 when President
Roosevelt revealed…
- p. 165 …These sentiments were expressed by President Roosevelt in a radio
address on 3 September: “This Nation…
- p. 169 …In an address to Congress on 6 January 1941, President
Roosevelt suggested the means; 9 5…
- p. 170 …O n 9 July 1941, President Roosevelt requested the secretaries of
W a r and the…
- p. 171 …The British had prepared, a t the instigation of President Roosevelt,
an estimate of munitions requirements…
- p. 173 …At the Roosevelt-Churchill conference at
sea in mid-August, Generals Marshall and Arnold had made…
- p. 174 …cent; other
nations, 10 per cent.'"
President Roosevelt, anxious that as many planes as possible be…
- p. 185 …President Roosevelt’s request for the report had been
motivated wholly by considerations of logistics. But…
- p. 199 …On 5 July 1941
President Roosevelt, in oral orders to the Army Chief of Staff and…
- p. 220 …and it carried a threat which President Roosevelt
described in terms of the greatest danger faced…
- p. 258 …conflict between Japan and the
U.S. Roosevelt attempt curve our independence stop we all know…
- p. 273 …President Roosevelt specifically directed that reinforcements
should be sent there with all speed, and MacArthur was…
- p. 282 …President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill with their chiefs
of staff, then meeting in Washington, had…
- p. 287 …evening, the British
party met with President Roosevelt and his military and civilian
advisers a t…
- p. 297 …O n 3 January President Roosevelt sent Mr. Stimson a list of muni-
tions, with a…
- p. 301 …In his address to
the Congress on 6 January, President Roosevelt promised that “we
shall not…
- p. 302 …Ultimate decisions on major
military policies were taken by President Roosevelt, as Commander
in Chief of…
- p. 304 …Leahy as personal chief of staff to President
Roosevelt in place of Admiral Stark.'* It was…
- p. 322 …given to the nation by Presi-
dent Roosevelt in a radio address on 9 D e…
- p. 331 …At the end of January, President Roosevelt
advised the President of Venezuela that, in deference to…
- p. 332 …During the course of a fireside report to the nation delivered by
President Roosevelt on 2…
- p. 352 …Secretary Stimson
reported to President Roosevelt his conviction that the planes from
even one carrier could…
- p. 366 …raised objections
which seemed convincing.8 President Roosevelt decided to adopt the
more modest proposal of…
- p. 370 …Elliott Roosevelt during the
summer on an aerial survey of the east coast of Greenland in…
- p. 400 …Elliott Roosevelt and others failed
to locate a suitable site for an airdrome.120A satisfactory site…
- p. 409 …mobilizing the resources of the airlines, President
Roosevelt had signed an executive order on 13 December…
- p. 465 …for effective
resistance in the Philippines, President Roosevelt had decided early in
February that the general…
- p. 480 …the basis of a proposal by President Roosevelt: there would
be a separate Southwest Pacific Area…
- p. 499 …Apparently
President Roosevelt himself played a role in initiating the expedition,
although it is not possible…
- p. 553 …Lauchlin Currie had gone to
China as economic adviser to President Roosevelt for study of her…
- p. 630 …in a long cable from Churchill to Roosevelt, delivered
on 5 March, in which the Prime…
- p. 632 …plan was approved in principle by President Roosevelt, and on
8 April General Marshall and Harry…
- p. 633 …message of 1 7 April, in-
formed Roosevelt of his approval of the design; his sole…
- p. 635 …A fortnight later, the Joint Chiefs
of Staff were alarmed by a query from Roosevelt as…
- p. 640 …in Norway-and they understood that President Roosevelt’s
anxiety to get U.S. troops into…
- p. 641 …On 8 July the Prime
Minister informed Roosevelt that conditions favorable to SLEDGE-
HAMMER would probably…
- p. 642 …on the ~ 4 t h . ~ ‘Ap-
parently Roosevelt gave his tentative approval in a telephone conver…
- p. 753 …This book shows the
close relations between Roosevelt and
the Committee T o Defend America by…
- p. 755 …Address by President Roosevelt at
Washington, 27 Oct. 1941, in Peace and
War, pp. 767-72…
- p. 756 …Ltr., Roosevelt to Stimson, 18
Sept. 1941,in WP I-General.
I I I . Release of…
- p. 774 …Memo for Roosevelt from Stim-
son, 14 Mar. 1942.
163. lbid.
164. History, Sixth Air Force…
- p. 776 …Elliott Roosevelt,
zIst Recon. Sq. to TAG, 8 Sept. 1941;
memo for Col. Olds from Capt…
- p. 779 …Elliott
Roosevelt to TAG, 6 July 1941; Atlantic
Bridge, pp. 27-29.
117. Ltr., Sec. of…
- p. 780 …Elliott Roosevelt to T A G , 3 Aug. 1941
(Report # 3 ) ; ltr., Capt. Elliott Roosevelt
to…
- p. 782 …Memo for S / W from President
Roosevelt, 6 May 1942, in ATC 321.
199. On the…
- p. 790 …Mills to TAG, Mac-
Arthur for Roosevelt, 11 Feb. 1942; msg.
#5, Australia to Marshall, 2…
- p. 802 …President Roosevelt had approved
the induction as early as 18 December
1941, contingent upon approval of…
- p. 857 …See also Coolidge;
Harding; Roosevelt; Wilson.
Presque Isle, 344, 347-49, 641, 644-45
Press comment…
- p. 858 …Erwin, 330, 339-41, 512
Roosevelt, Capt. Elliott, 3 18, 344
Roosevelt, Pres. F.D., 101…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 1 5 - 2 6
41. Final Report ..., A.E.F.
42. H.A. Jones, T h e W a r in the Air,
VI (Oxford, 1937), 1-27, 101-17, andsthe
pertinent documents in the appendices,
especially on p. 41.
9. M.M. Patrick, The United States
in the Air, P* I77.
10. Baker Board, Final Report,. p!ge
4, omits the American Aviation Misslon,
headed by Benedict Crowell, Assistant
Secretary of War, which reported on 19
July 1919.
1 1 . Quoted in AAF Historical Study
No. 25, Organization of Military Aero-
nautics, 1907-1935 (hereinafter cited as
I . Report of the Secretary of War, AAFHS-zf), p. 71.
12. Dwight W. Morrow, in Commit-
2. Aircraft: Hearings before the tee on Military Affairs, 1926, Hearings,
43. Toulmin, op. cit., chap. w.
NOTES TO CHAPTER 2
1919 (Washington, 1920), pp. 58-75.
President’s Aircraft Board (Washington,
1925) (hereinafter cited as Morrow 1 3 . Public No. 143 (63d Cong.).
14. AAFHS-25, pp. 36-38.Board, Hearings), p. 398.
3. Inquiry into Operations of the U.S.
Air Services: Hearing before Select
Committee of Inquiry into Operatiom of 16- Reports published in Committee
the U.S. Air Services, Home of Repre- on Military Affairs, 1926, Hearings:
sentatives (Washington, 1925) (herein- Dickman Board, PP. 952-57; Menoher
after cited as Lampert Committee, Board, PP. 9O8-’7.
Hearing), p. 2262. 17. AAFHS-25, pp. 38-40.
4. Department of Defense and Unifi- 1 8 . Public No. 242 (66th Cong.), in
cation of Air Service: Hearings before 41 Stat. 759-88. Fn respect to the dis-
the Committee on Military Affairs, position of the Crowell report, see the
House of Representatives (Washington, testimony of Howard E. Coffin, a mem-
1926) (hereinafter cited as Committee ber, in Lampert Committee, Hearing,
on Military Affairs, 1926, Hearings), p. 1 2 1 5 .
P* 476. 19. Report of the Secretary of War,
5. See, for example, the Final Report 2919, pp. 68-75.
of War Deparment Special Cf3’Wi.%ittee 20. Quoted in Isaac Don Levine,
On Army Air ‘934) Mitchell, Pioneer of Air Power, p. 317.
(hereinafter cited as Baker Board, Final
Report), p. 26.
before the Committee on Military Af-
fairs, House of Representatives (Wash- 23. See, for instance, William Mit-
ington, 19x9) (hereinafter cited as chell, Our Air Force: T h e Keystone of
Committee on Military Affairs, 1919, National Defense (New York, 192i),
Hearings), p. 932. chap. xiv; “Aviation over the Water,”
7. Committee on Military Affairs, American Review o f Reviews, LxII
1926, Hearings, p. 383. (Oct. 1920), 391-98; “Air Power vs. Sea
Power,” ibid., LXIII (Mar. 1921), 273-
8. Lampen Committee, Hearing, P. 78; “Has the Airplane Made the Battle-
2240; cf. pp. 2106, 22509 2 2 5 2 . A list of ship Obsolete?” World’s Work, XL
the Air Service officers testifying before ( A ~ ~ .1921); “Aircraft Dominate Sea-
the several committees would include craft. Saturday Evening post, 24 Jan.
many of the most ardent supporters of 1925,etc.
unification. (See also William Mitchell,
p. 830.
Ibid., p. 41.
2 1 . Morrow Board, Hearings, p. 497.
6. A m y Reorganization: Hearings 22. Levine, Mitchell, pages 401-5?gives
a bibliography Of his
Winged Defense: The Development m d
Possibilities of Modern Air Power-Eco-
24. Mitchell, Winged Defeme, PP’
41-41; Levinel Mitche”, chap. viii.
nomic and Military [New York, 19253,
p. 30.) 269-70.
25. Levine, Mitchell, chap. IX and p p
672