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The Army Air Forces in World War II, Vol. 1 (archived PDF)

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This is Volume One of The Army Air Forces in World War II, titled Plans and Early Operations, January 1939 to August 1942, edited by Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate. The University of Chicago Press first published it in 1948, and the Office of Air Force History reprinted it in 1983. The front matter explains how the AAF historical program was set up during the war. The index covers Pacific, Atlantic and European operations, and nothing in the text concerns unidentified aerial phenomena.

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“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 1 9 - 2 9
55. Report on Air Corps Mission
under the Monroe Doctrine, by the Air
Corps Board, Study No. 44, 17 Oct. 1938.
56. Final Report of Air Corps Board
on Division of Five Year Experimental
Program, 2 3 June 1939.
57. Requirements, as in n. 54.
58. Memo for Col. Loughry from
Lt. Col. Orlando Ward, 25 July 1939, and
reply, 2 7 July.
59. Requirements, as in n. 54.
60. Peace and War, p. 440.
61. Events, p. 219.
62. Peace and War, p. 562.
63. Events, p. 254.
64. Message to the Congress, in Peace
and War, pp. 56467.
65. Agreement signed 27 March 1941
(Events, p. 274).
66. John Bartlet Brebner, North At-
lantic Triangle: The Interplay of Canada,
the United States and Great Britain
(New Haven, 1945).
67. History, First Air Force, 111, Pt.
10, 1-4.
68. Ibid.; ltr., Sec. of War to the
President, 28 Nov. 1940; Survey of Air
Rase Sites in Newfoundland, 18 0ct.-r
69. Survey of Air Base Sites in New-
foundland, 18 Oct.-I Nov. 1940.
70. Statement by the Department of
State, 10 Apr. 1941, in Peace and War,
p. 641.
71. Text of the Agreement, ibid., pp.
72. Ltr., C/NO to Navy WPD, et al.,
73. Memo for C/S from WPD, Feb.
74. Message to the Congress, in Peace
75. Histories, 33d Fighter Sq. and
76. SPOBS, as in n. 23.
77. 24 November (Events, p. 304).
78. AAF Historical Study No. 42, Air
Defense of the Panama Canal, I Jan.
1939-7 Dec. 1941, passim.
NOV.1940.
642-46.
6 May 1941.
1941.
and W a r , pp. 686-90.
556th Signal Aircraft Warning Bn.
680
79. A m y Air Forces in the W a r
against Japan, ig41-igqz (Washington,
80. AAF Historical Study No. 45,
Development of the South Pacific Air
Route, passim.
81. AAF Historical Study No. 4,
Alaskan Air Defense and the Japanese
Invasion of the Aleutians, pp. 1-27.
‘945)1 pp. 4-7.
82. Peace and War, p. 485.
83. This seems to be borne out by
both AIPO (Gallup) and Fortune polls.
See P.E. Jacob, “Influences of World
Events on US. Neutrality,” Public Opin-
ion Quarterly, IV (March 1940), 63-64.
84. AIPO polls: September 1938, 86
per cent thought the Allies would win;
September 1939, 82 per cent.
85. Jacob, op. cit., p. 61.
86. On an AIPO poll asking “Which
side do you think will win the war if no
other countries go into it?” only 43 per
cent said England (20 July 1940). On
the question of whether the United
States would be drawn into the war, an
AIPO poll of 15 Feb. 1940 reported:
Yes, 3 2 per cent; No, 68 per cent. For-
tune, Aug. 1940, reported: Yes, 43.8 per
cent; No, 44.8 per cent; Don’t Know,
I 1.4 per cent.
87. On this trend see Johnson, op. cit.,
chaps. iv and v. In an AIPO poll of 18
July 1940 on aid to England, 53 per cent
thought we should give more help, 41
per cent that we were giving enough
now, 6 per cent that we were giving
too much.
88. Address by President Roosevelt at
Washington, 27 Oct. 1941, in Peace and
War, pp. 767-72.
89. Address to the Congress, ibid., p.
449.
90. Address to the Congress, 2 1 Sept.,
ibid., p. 487; Neutrality Act of 4 Nov.,
ibid., pp. 494-506.
91. AAF Reference History No. 6,
Distribution of Air Materiel to the Allies
193B-p4: Controls, Procedures, and
Policies.
92. Ibid.
93. Ibid.
94. Ibid.

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