“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 2 4 6 - 5 8
Study No. 12, T h e Tenth Air Force,
1942.
47. Memo for C/AS, Notes on Prep-
aration of AWPD/I, 18 Nov. 1941.
48. Quoted in draft AAF Historical
Study, Logistical Plans and Problems,
1941-43, with Special Reference to Build-
up of the Eighth Air Force.
49. Victory Requirements, a draft
paper dated 5 Jan. 1942, in Col. H.L.
George's notes on ARCADIA, in
AFSHO files.
50. See n. 48.
5 1 . Cong. Rec., Vol. 88, Pt. I, 34.
52. Memo for US/W from R.A.
Lovett, AS/W for Air, 1 2 Jan. 1942. The
schedule was approved in letter, FDR
to Undersecretary Patterson, 14 January.
53. JCCSS-I.
54. Allocation of Airplanes-1942,
signed by Arnold and Portal on 13 Jan.
'942.
55. For objections by Harry Hopkins,
see AAF Reference History No. 6, Dis-
tribution of Air Materiel to the Allies,
1939-44.
56. Ibid.
57. Stettinius, o p . cit., p. 217.
58. Memo for C/S from C/AS, Per-
sonnel for Completion of Army's Second
Aviation Objective, 15 Dec. 1941. In
addition to this authorized stiength for
the Air Corps, services with the Air
Corps were listed at the following au-
thorized strengths: Aircraft Warning
Service, 21,850; Arms and Services,
120,232; National Guard, 6,119; for an
over-all total of 496,736. Cf. Strength
Report as of 31 Dec. 1941 by Enlisted
Sec., Military Personnel Div., which
gives a figure for enlisted men of 243,542,
including 4,495 National Guard and
15,000 aviation cadets.
59. AAF Directory of Groups, 6 July
'942.
60. Unsigned note on OCAC staff
conference in Col. H.L. George's ARCA-
DIA file.
61. Memo for C/S from Arnold, 7
Jan. 1942.
62. Ibid.
694
63. Cited in Logistical Plans and Prob-
64. T h e Official Guide of the Army
65. Logistical Plans and Problems,
66. Ibid.
67. Data for this chart taken from:
AAF Directory of Groups, 6 July 1942;
memo for C/AAF from S/W, Expansion
of the AAF during Calendar Year 1942,
19 Jan. 1942; memo for C/AAF from
C/AS, AAF Expansion for 1943, 19 Jan.
1942.
lems, 1941-43.
Air Forces (New York, 1944), p. 329.
'941-43-
68. Peace and Waf, pp. 85-53.
69. Cong. Rec., Vol. 88, Pt. I , 33.
70. SPOBS was set up 19 May 1941,
the British Joint Staff Mission a little
later.
71. JCCSs-8.
72. JCCSS-12. T h e paper as revised
was ABG4/CS4.
73. CCS 9, 24 Jan., and CCS 9/1, 10
Feb. 1942; JCS Memo for Information
74. T h e first meeting of the JCS
which he attended was 28 July 1942.
Admiral Stark had meanwhile been re-
lieved.
75. JCS 2o2,8 Jan. 1943; Comments on
JCS 202, 3 Apr. 1943. These deal with a
suggestion, which was declined, to pro-
vide charters for the JCS and subsidiary
agencies.
8'75.
76. CCS 9/1, par. 3.
77. Ibid., par. 4.
78. See CCS 9/1, 10 Feb. 1942.
79. CCS 23/1, 11 Feb. 1942.
80. CCS 24/1, 10 Feb. 1942.
81. CCS 19/1, 4 Feb. 1942. See also
82. AAFRH-6.
83. The British had made the original
suggestion for the Secretariat in JCCSs-8.
For a British criticism of American meth-
ods of keeping staff records, see an
interview with Air Commodore A.C.H.
Sharp by Dr. Bruce Hopper, London,
84. Kent R. Greenfield, Robert R.
Palmer, and Bell I. Wiley, The Organi-
Stettinius, op. cit., pp. 160-61.
I 2 OCt. 1943.