“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 8 5 - 9 2
90. Editorial, N e w York Times, 28
Feb. 1942.
91. Los Angeles Times, I Nov. 1945;
Oakland Tribune, 2 Nov. 1945, quoted in
Fourth Air Force Historical Study 111-2,
p. 3 2 . It should be noted, however, that
the 1-17 which shelled oil installations
near Santa Barbara on the night of 23
February normally carried a plane. (See
USAFISPA G-2 Periodic Report No. 39
92. USSBS (Pacific), Interrogation 97,
Comdr. Masatake Okumiya, at Tokyo,
93. History, 4th AA Command, p.
94. Ibid., p. 121.
95. Ibid., p. 119.
96. Los Angeles Times: Bill Henry
on 26 Feb. 1942; Ernie Pyle on 5 Mar.
‘942.
97. Richard L. Neuberger, “Reveille
in the Northwest,” Nation, 2 0 Dec. 1941.
98. Notes on Orientation Concerning
Controlled Interception, in docs. for His-
tory, Fighter Command School, Mar.-
l2-9 Oct. 19431.)
I 0 OCt. 1945.
I 19.
NOV.1942.
99. lbid.
100. History, AAF Proving Ground
Command, Pt. 16, Radar, chap. i.
101. AAF Historical Study No. 58,
The Use of Radio and Radar Equipment
by the AAF, 1939-45, chap. ii, quoting
Radar, A Report on Science at War, a
press release by the Joint Board on Scien-
tific Information Policy, 14 Aug. 1945.
102. Notes on Interception, as cited
in n. 98.
103. Edgar McInnis, T h e War: Sec-
ond Year, pp. 6ff.
104. Ibid., pp. 218ff.
105. Characteristics of British Radar
Equipment, in docs. for History, Fighter
Command School, Mar.-Nov. 1942.
106. Ibid.
107. See p. 6 of Notes on Intercep-
tion, as cited in n. 98; cf. AAFHS-58,
chap. iii.
108. Maj. Gordon P. Saville, Air De-
fense Doctrine, 27 Oct. 1941. See n. 118,
this chapter.
698
109. AAF Historical Study No. 66,
Development of Radio and Radar Equip-
ment for Air Operations, 1 9 3 ~ 4 4 .
1 1 0 . See “Radar-A Most Decisive
Instrument,” US. Air Services, Mar.
1946, p. 2 1 .
I I I . Brig. Gen. H.H. McClelland
said: “We simply did not have the funds
or manpower in our military commu-
nications set-up to fool” with radar.
(AAFHS-66.)
1 1 2 . Ibid.
1 1 3 . Memo for C/S from Arnold, 24
I 14. History, Air Defense Command,
115. AAFHS-66.
116. Ibid.
117. A G 320.2 (2-16-41) M-C-M, Air
Defense, 7 Mar. 1941, Doc. I , in Fourth
Air Force Historical Study 111-1.
118. The plan of air defense was
officially summarized in the manual Air
Defense Doctrine, as cited in n. 108.
119. For limitations of radar, see p.
2 3 , Report by R. A. Watson-Watt on
the Air Defense System of the Pacific
Coast of the US., Jan. 1942, Doc. 40, in
Fourth Air Force Historical Study HI-I.
1 2 0 . Ibid., p. 21.
121. History, I Fighter Command,
1941-44, 1, 104ff.
1 2 2 . Fourth Air Force Historical
Study 111-2, pp. 146 ff.
123. History, I Fighter Command,
1941-44, I, 67; Fourth Air Force His-
torical Study 111-2, p. 74.
NOV.1939.
P. 7-
124. Air Defense Doctrine.
125. Ibid.
126. See p. 3 of Watson-Watt report,
as cited in n. 119.
127. Ltr., Air Marshal A.T. Harris,
RAF Delegation, Washington, D.C. to
Hon. R.A. Lovett, AS/W for Air, 12
Dec. 1941.
128. Ibid.
129. All quotes are from Watson-
Watt report.
130. Memo for Arnold from Saville,
3 0 Jan. 1942; ltr., C/AAF to CSigO, 8
Feb. 1942.