“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 3 6 0 - 7 0
182. Ibid., pp. 1 0 - 1 1 , 13-15, 56-57.
183. Administrative History, Ferrying
Command, 29 May 1941-30 June 1942,
pp. ~ r o o ;Leonard Eiserer, “Army Air
Corps Outhauls all Domestic Carriers in
Volume,” American Aviation, I Aug.
1941, p. 6; excerpt from ltr., Robert E.
Hotz to C/S ASC, 14 Feb. 1942.
184. Ltr., T A G to CG AAF et ul., 3 0
Apr. 1942.
185. Administrative History, Ferrying
Command, pp. 122-23.
186. Memo for Col. George from
Gen. Arnold, 24 Mar. 1942.
187. Ltr., Gen. Arnold to C/AS, 1 2
June 1942.
188. L.W. Pogue, Memorandum Con-
cerning W a r Aviation Transport Serv-
ices, 1 5 June 1942, in AAG 210.69H.
189. 1st ind. (ltr., Gen. Arnold to
C/AS, 1 2 June 1942), C/AS to AC/AS,
A-2, 16 June 1942; ltr., AAF to Brig.
Gen. Hume Peabody, 17 June 1942.
1 9 . AAF G O 8, 2 0 June 1942.
191. Administrative History, Ferrying
Command, pp. 126-126a.
192. Zbid., pp. 126-28; W D Circular
211, Sec. 111, I July 1942.
193. AAF G O 8, 2 0 June 1942, di-
rected the establishment of those two
main divisions.
194. Ltr., T A G to C G AAFFC, 1 2
June 1942.
195. Ltr., T A G to CG ATC, 5 July
‘942.
196. A T C Statistical Control Div.,
Military Personnel, Air Transport Com-
mand, 1942-44, and Summary of Opera-
tions of the Air Transport Command,
‘9431 pp. 99 11.
197. Lt. Col. Oliver LaFarge, ATC
Transport Aircraft in World War IF: A
Study of Types, Performance, and Fleet
Augmentation, pp. 3-4, in ATC Hist.
file.
198. Memo for S / W from President
Roosevelt, 6 May 1942, in ATC 321.
199. On the subject of relations be-
tween the Ferrying Command or the Air
Transport Command and the theaters,
see the following: Lt. Col. Oliver La-
Farge, Control of Strategic Air Trans-
port, 2 0 Oct. 1945; Administrative His-
tory, Ferrying Command, 29 May 1941-
3 0 June 1942, pp. 11g-20; Administrative
History, Air Transport Command, June
19qz-Mar. 1943, pp. 136-42; Administra-
tive History, Air Transport Command,
Mar. 1943-July 1,944, pp. 176-93; His-
tory, FC Operations, 7 Dec. 1941-30
2 0 0 . History, FC Operations, pp. 87-
90.
2 0 1 . The Air Transport Command in
the Southwest Pacific, 7 Dec. 1941-1
Aog. 1944, pp. 32-45; Northwest Air
Route to Alaska, 1942-45, pp. 3g-40; La-
Farge, Control of Strategic Air Trans-
port, 20 Oct. 1945.
202. Ltr., T A G to Commander in
Chief, Southwest Pacific Area et al., 6
June 1942.
203. Memo for Gen. Arnold from
Gen. George, 17 Aug. 1942.
June 1942, pp. 87-90.
NOTES T O CHAPTER 10
I . Ltr., Marshall to C G USAFFE, 2 1
Nov. 1941; msg. #650, Adams to C G
2 . ABC-4, JCCSs-2, 2 5 Dec. 1941,and
JCCSs-4, 27 Dec. 1941, US.-British Staff
Conferences, in AFSHO files.
3. ABC-4/MsI JPC, Minutes, 5th
Mtg., 29 Dec. 1941; ABC-4/5; Gen. Sir
Archibald Wavell, Despatch on Opera-
tions in South-West Pacific, 15 Jan-25
Feb. IOAZ.
USAFFE, 29 NOV.1941.
I .
4. Despatch on Operations in South-
West Pacific.
5. Msg. # I , sans origine to TAG, 6
Jan. 1942; msg., Barnes to MacArthur,
9 Jan. 1942; msg. #1/92, Arnold to Brett,
10 Jan. 1942; memo for T A G from Brig.
Gen. L.T. Gerow, 1 2 Jan. 1942; rnsg.,
Brett to Marshall, #ABDA 7, 17 Jan.
1942; msg. #AF 1/209, Marshall to CG
USAFIA, 1 3 Jan. 1942. The daily Sum-
mary of Activities, Headquarters, Far
East Air Force (described above, p. 206,
and hereinafter cited as Sum. of Activi-
ties) indicates that Generals Brett and
Brereton, together with Sir Charles Bur-
nett, Australian chief of air staff, flew
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