“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 5 2 8 - 4 0
Historical Study No. 19, Civilian Volun-
teer Activities in the AAF.
2s. Joint Action, chap. ii, par. 8 (a)
and (b); msg., COMINCH and C/S to
C G EDC, 2 s Mar. 1942; ltr., C G EDC
to Comdr. ESF, 28 Mar. 1942.
26. Ltr., Brig. Gen. Westside T. Lar-
son to Gen. Bradley, 19 Mar. 1942. Cf.
draft history, I BC.
27. See sources in n. 4.
28. Correspondence in AAFAC file,
Gulf Task Force Organization. See espe-
cially, ltr., Arnold to Maj. Gen. W.H.
Frank, 3 1 May 1942; ltr., Bradley to C G
I BC, 26 May 1942; ltr., T A G to CGS,
Southern Defense Command and Third
AF, 3 July 1942; ltr., Hq. Gulf Task
Force to The Air Inspector, 2 Oct. 1942.
29, See sources in n. 28; also ltr., Hq.
Third AF to C G AAF, 8 June 1942. Cf.
History, Third Air Force, Defense Ac-
tivities, 1941-44, p. 36.
30. Assessment of Attacks, in AAFAC
file 557. See also n. 38 below.
3 1 . Ltr., Hq. Advance Echelon, I BC
to all tactical comdrs., 19 Jan. 1942, in
AAFAC file, I Bomber Command Opera-
tions, Procedure. See also other cor-
respondence in same file.
32. AAFAC file, I Bomber Command
Operations, Procedure.
33. Ibid., passim.
34. Ibid., passim; Information Bulletin
35. Ltr., Comdr. ESF to all task group
36. Three Essays, Tab I N.
37. AAFAC file, I Bomber Command
Operations, Convoy Escort. See espe-
cially, ltr., Hq. Seventh Naval Dist. to
AS/W for Air, 1 3 May 1942; ltr., Hq.
I BC to C G s EDC and First AF, 29
May 1942.
38. Standish report; AAFAC file 557
(the assessments herein contained have
been checked with those printed in US.
Fleet Antisubmarine Bulletin to Dec.
13, Hq. I BC, 3 1 July 1942.
comdrs., 24 Sept. 1942.
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~~~~.
1944). Authority for the “kill” of 7 July
comes from C/NO, German, Japanese,
and Italian Submarine Losses, World
W a r 11, which is a final summary of all
I 5 Jan. 1942.
55- lbid.
56. Ltr., Arnold to King, 2 5 Feb. 1942.
certain evidence from all Allied and
enemy sources.
39. Standish report. See also charts in
AAFAC hlonthly Intel. Sum., Nov. 1942,
40. Standish report; Antisubmarine
Warfare Operations Research Group
Mcmo 2 0 , Analysis of US. Aircraft At-
tacks on U/Boats, 7 Dec. 1942, p. 4. In
this connection it should be noted that
several attacks reported by I Bomber
Command are not included here and
that of the total attacks listed, half, or a
significantly larger proportion, of radar
contacts were made by Army planes.
41. Doenitz, The Conduct of the War
at Sea.
42. Estimated at 859,000 tons for No-
vember as compared with 575,886 for
October. Monthly Intel. Sum., Nov. and
Dec. 1942.
pp. 8-9.
43. History, First Air Force.
44. History, Caribbean Air Force, 8
May 1941-6 Mar. 1942, p. 569; memo
for C G Field Forces from Deputy C/S
US. Army, 19 Feb. 1942.
45. History, Sixth Air Force, Mar.
19q-May f943, pp. I 18ff.; History,
Caribbean Air Force, p. 463.
46. US. Fleet Antisubmarine Bulletin,
47. Report, Col. R.H. Wooten to C G
Field Forces, 1 2 Feb. 1943, in History,
Sixth Air Force, March 1942-May 1943;
Statistical Control, Caribbean data file,
Dec. 1941-Dec. 1943.
48. Memo, Office of A-2, Hq. Antilles
Air Command, 3 0 Nov. 1944; US. Fleet
Antisubmarine Bulletin, June 1943.
49. Standish report; History, 1st Sea
Search Attack Gp.
so. Standish report.
51. Memo for Arnold from AC/AS,
AWPD, 1 5 Jan. 1942.
5 2 . Memo for Arnold from Rear
Adm. J.H. Towers, 14 Feb. 1942.
53. lbid.
~ 4 .Memo for Arnold from AC/AS,
June 1943.
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