“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 4 2 0 - 3 2
60. See sources in n. 59.
61. History, 19th Bomb. Gp.
45. Richardson Report #5.
46. Brett report, Sum. H.
47. lbid.; GO 5 and 10, Hq. Allied
Air Forces, 4 and 19 May 1942; Opns.
Instructions 3 and 7, Hq. Allied Air
Forces, 20 and 28 May 1942,
48. G O 2 and 13, Hq. Allied Air
Forces, 2 7 Apr. and 31 May 1942.
49. Brett report, Sum. H; Circular
Ltr. 42-13, Hq. US. Army Air Services,
19 May 1942, in AFSHO files; Circular
Ltr., 42-1, Hq. Allied Air Forces, 27
Apr. 1942, in Brett report.
5 0 . History, 4th Air Depot Gp.; Cir-
cular Ltr. 42-1, as cited in n. 49.
51. History, Air Service Command in
SIYPA; GO 4, Hq. U.S. Army Air
Services, I I May 1942; ltr., Sperry Gyro-
scope Co. to AAF Civilian Personnel, 1 5
May 1942; interview with Milton J.
Getker, 28 July 1943.
5 2 . History, ASC in SWPA, pp. 5 ff.
53. Ibid.; History, 4th A 9 Gp.
54. The Air Transport Command in
the Southwest Pacific, 7 Dec. 1941-1
Aug. 1944, pp. 12-15; ltr., AFA[TlC to
C G AAF, 17 June 1942; ltr., Arnold to
C G ASC, attached to R&R, AFDAS to
AFATC, 6 June 1942.
5 5 . ATC in the Southwest Pacific, pp.
32, 61-62.
56. Board of Economic Warfare, De-
velopments in the W a r Economies of
Australia and New Zealand during May
1942, 2 5 June 1942.
57. Fn this first important action of
the P-39’s in the SWPA, three enemy
aircraft were claimed by the American
pilots, and four P-39’s were lost. This
was a heavy loss, especially in view of
the loss of S I P-39’s in the flight of the
unit from Australia to Port Moresby.
(Histories, 35th and 36th Sqs.; msg. f15,
Scanlon to Allied Air Forces, 5 May
1942; Hq. Allied Air Forces, Operations
Report, 29/30 Apr. 1942.)
58. Histories, 3d and 27th Gps.; T h e
Marauder, a Book of the zznd Bomb
Group (Sydney, 1944).
59. Histories, 8th Photo Sq., 435th
Bomb. Sq., and 3d Bomb. Gp.; interview
with Maj. Frank P. Bostrom, 5 Dec. 1942.
NOTES TO CHAPTER 1 2
I . USSBS (Pacific) Interrogation 503,
Vice Adm. Shigeru Fukudome, 9 Dec.
‘9457 p. 37.
2. AWPD/I, Tab 8, (Joint Board)
Estimate of US. Over-all Production
Requirements, J.B. No. 355 (Serial 707)~
1 1 Sept. 1941, Sec. 11, Pt. 111, App. 11.
3 . Memo for W P D from S/AS, 9
Dec. 1941.
4. JCCSS-10, Annex No. 2 , Defense of
Island Bases between Hawaii and Aus-
tralia, 1 3 Jan. 1942.
5 . JCCSS-10, 12 Jan. 1942.
6. JCCSS-10, Annex No. z.
7. History, 67th Fighter Sq.; History,
68th Fighter Sq., Actv. to 3 1 Dec. 1942;
memo for Col. Vanaman from AC/AS,
AWPD, zo Jan. 1942.
8. JCCSs-9, 1 1 Jan. 1942.
9. Memo for Col. Vanaman from
AC/AS, AWPD, 2 0 Jan. 1942.
10. Memo for AC Member, JUSSC
from C/AS, 14 Feb. 1942.
I I . Directive memo for AC/AS,
AWPD from S/AS, 2 3 Feb. 1942.
12. Ltr., A G O to Gen. Arnold, 2 0
Jan. 1942.
1 3 . Ibid.
14. CCS 41, 16 Feb. 1942; R&R,
OCAC Operations to Asst. Exec. for
Technical Plans and Coordination, 6
Mar. 1942.
1 5 . R&R, OCAC Operations, as in n.
14; CCS 41, 16 Feb. ’942; History, 67th
Fighter Sq., Actv. to 3 1 Dec. 1943; His-
tory, 68th Fighter Sq.
16. USSBS htr. 516, Maj. Gen. Tat-
suhiko Takashima, 29 Nov. 1945; JCCSS-
9, 1 1 Jan. 1942. The Japanese Basic Plan
for the conduct of the Pacific war ac-
tually listed the conquest of New Cale-
donia, Fiji, and Samoa as necessary, but
these were to follow after the acquisition
of Midway. (USSBS [Pacific], Naval
Analysis Div., T h e Campaigns of the
Pacific War, p. 3.)
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