“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-
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- 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
Kurusu, Saburo, 194
Kuter, Brig. Gen. L.S., 50, 146
Kweilin, 440
L
Labor supply, 424, 483, 508-9, 632, 650
Labrador, 1 5 5 , 342-437 345-47, 641
Ladd Field, 167, 169, 465
Lae, 184, 372, 408, 417. 425, 471-72, 4741
La Fleur, Chaplain J.F., 2 1 2
Lagos, 3 2 0 , 3 2 z 1 324, 354
La Guardia, Fiorello, 2 1 , 279
Lakunai, 480
Lampert Comm., 27-29
Lanai, 171
Lanao, Lake, 407
Lancashire, 636, 648
Landis, J.M., 298
Landon, Maj. T.H., 200
Landry, Lt. L.D., 386
Lane, Capt. William, Jr., 385-87
Langford Lodge, 634-39, 650
Langley Field: antisuh. patrols, 5 2 3 , 550;
ASTS, 45, 50; VIII Bomber Comd.,
activation, 613; GHQAF Hq., 3 1 ;
Memorial Aeronautical Lab., 55
Langoa, 380
Larson, Brig. Gen. W.T., 528, 553
Lashio, 485, 506
Lassiter Board, 26, 28, 45
Latin America. See Central America;
Lawson, Lt. T.W., 442
LB-30: characteristics, 400-401; supply
for Britain, 317, 328, 332, 359
Leahy, Adm. W.D.: appointment to
JCS, 255; personal C/S to Pres. Roose-
velc, 254; TORCH, comments on, 573,
575
477-79, 481
Landey, 396989 484
South America.
Leary, Vice Adm. H.F., 419-20
Lee, Maj. Gen. J.C.H., 649
Leeward Is., 193
Legaspi, 219
Legislation: before World War I, 23;
between wars, 18, 54, 57, I O I , 104-5,
1 1 5 ; neutrality, 128-29, 272; World
W a r I, 6, 9. See also Lend-lease aid.
Leland, Maj. Gordon, 505-6
LeMay, Maj. C.E., 326
Lembang, 368
Lend-lease aid, 1 2 6 3 5 , 259, 317, 328, 337,
3439 351; Britain, 1 0 3 7 127-30, 133-34,
236, 245, 314, 318-19, 337-38; British
in Middle East, 3 1 2 , 318-20, 327-29,
337, 3 7 1 ; China, 244,. 3 1 2 , 328-29, 337-
38; France, 129; Indla, 328; passage of
act, 130, 314, 342; Southwest Pacific,
328; U.S.S.R., 132-35, 3 1 2 , 3 2 5 , 3293
337-397 3 5 1
Leopoldville, 324, 355
Letter contracts, 106
Levin, Sgt. M.S., 2 1 7
Lexington, 417, 447,449
Leyte, 406
Lhoknga, 379
Liberator. See B-24.
Liberia, 3 2 1 , 324, 329
Light bomber, first designation, 58-59
Lima, Declaration of, 1 2 0
Lincoln, hlaj. Gen. R.B., 421-22
Lingayen Gulf, 191, 207, 209, 2 1 5 , 2 2 3 - 2 4
Lipa, 2 2 5
Lishui, 40,444
Little, Adm. Sir Charles, 253
Little Staughton, 63 I
Liverpool, 630, 635-38, 640
Lockheed aircraft plant, 280, 3 2 1
Lockheed Overseas Corp., 635-37, 650
Loiwing, 490, 498, 501
Lombok, Strait of, 394
London conference (Sept. 1941), 1 3 2 .
London Naval Treaty, 77
Longfellow, Col. Newton, 644, 646
Long Kesh, 648
Long-range bomber, evolution of, 53-7 I
Los Angeles, 279; “battle of,” 283-86
Losses: Aleutians, 469; Darwin, 393-94;
Java, 393-99, 400-442; Luzon, 212-13;
New Guinea, 477, 481-83; Pearl Har-
bor, 197-201; submarine, 515-18, 530,
See also Special Observer Gp.
534-36
Louisiade Archipelago, 448, 450
Lovett, R.A., 1 1 5 , 146
Low-altitude flying, 48 I ; Eighth AF,
Lower California, 298
Lowery, Capt. H.F., 479
Lunga Plain, 471
Luzon, 1 2 5 , 186, 188, 191. 195, 2 3 2 , 234,
236, 242, 368, 405-18; U.S. defeat,
201-27
Lyon, Brig. Gen. A.J., 604, 620, 628, 636
657-58; World War I, 14
M
MacArthur, Gen. Douglas: CG South-
west Pacific Area, 419, 424, 426, 450.
777