“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…
I N D E X
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A
A--2, AC/AS. See Intelligence, AC/AS.
A-3, AC/AS, 430
A--20: flown by Eighth AF, 660; by RAF,
634; in SWPA, 414; to U.S.S.R., 339
A-24: characteristics, 231, 478, 481; in
SWPA, 226, 387, 390, 401, 410, 414
A-29: lend-lease to China, 339; in
Abadan, 335
Abbeville-Drucat airdrome, 660
ABC-1, 130, 136, 1 3 ~ 4 5 ,236, 238, 240,
243, 2 5 2 7 5597 5629 576-78, 59'7 594
493, 576; Area, 36743, 384, 407, 430,
366-76
645
SWPA, 382, 410, 414, 431-32, 479
ABC-2, 130-3 I
ABDA Command: 244-45, 388, 392, 418,
432, 492; assumption by Dutch, 396;
comdrs., 367, 370; organization, 243-44,
Accident rate: Australia, 483; Eighth AF,
Accra, 320, 324-25, 3 2 ~ 3 2 ,340
Adak, 462, 464-65, 467
Adams, Lt., 219
Adelaide, 41 I
Adler, Brig. Gen. E.E., 326, 364, 497,
Admiralty (Brit.), 93, 541
Aeronautical Div. (Signal Corps), 7
Aeronautics, Dept. of, 20, 23, 2 9
Aeronautics, Navy Bur, of, 129, 538, 566
Africa, in ferrying and air transport op-
erations, 2 2 8 , 299, 320-23, 328, 33-31,
North African.
509.3 5'3
336, 338, 340. 355-567 493-95. See also
Africa-Middle East Wing (ATC), 363
Air base (service) commands, origin and
Airborne interception radar, 2 8 9 4 9 0
Air Brigade, First Provisional, 26
Air Corps. See Army Air Corps.
Air Corps Act (1926), 2 3 , 29, 46, 5 6 5 7
Air Corps Board, 4 ~ 5 0 ,119
Air Corps Ferrying Comd.: control of-
ficers, 3zp-30; deliveries to Brit. in
Agra, 508-9
functions, 1 5 5
Canada and U.S., 316-17; first over-
seas services, 3 2 5 ; intel. sec., 334; mis-
sion, 314, 316; operations, 317-20, 325-
37, 340-44, 347-489 350, 3619 424, 641;
organization, 3 16, 362; overlapping of
facilities with ASC, 360-61 ; overseas
jurisdiction, 364-6:; requisition of mili-
tary planes from, 350; sectors, 337,
344; summary, 363. See also Air Trans-
port Comd.
Air Corps Maintenance Comd. See Air
Service Comd.
Air Corps Tactical School, 33, 46-52.. 59,
146, 604; theory of air war outlined,
51-52. See also ASTS.
Air Corps Training Center, I I z
Aircraft: allocation, 13 1-35, 145, 247-51,
413, 437, 567-68; production schedules
(Jan. 194z), 247; standardization, 107-8;
types (US., Dec. 1941). rap-10; types
sold to foreign states, 129. See also Pro-
duction.
Aircraft Production, Bur. of, 9
Aircraft Production, Ministry of. See
Aircraft Production Board, 5,7
Aircraft Warning Bn., ~ ~ 7 t h ,192
Aircraft warning service: Alaska, 307-8;
Brit. radar equipment, 28891; early de-
tectors, 287; Panama, 301-3; SWPA,
209, 383-84, 476; in US., 278, 28687,
29-2, 296, 298
Air defense: categories of defense, 277;
England, 622-23; Hawaii, 170-75; Java,
390, 400-401; NEI, 366-402; Philippines,
201-3; system in 1942, 286-93; Western
Hemisphere, 61-69, I 16-26, 151-70, 236,
271-309 (see also specific regions) ;
zones, 295-96
Air Defense: Director of, 292; Director-
ate created, 295
Air Defense Comd., 152-54, 577; crea-
tion, 289; functions, 289, 295
Air Defense Operational Training Unit,
295. See also Fighter Comd.
School.
Britain.
Air Districts, creation of, 153-54
763