“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…
T H E A R M Y A I R F O R C E S I N W O R L D W A R I 1
Piarco airport, 162, 329
PINETREE, 622
Pittsburg, 598
Placentia Bay, 156
Plaines des Gaiacs, 433-34
Plan position indicator scope, 288
Plans, AC/AS, 472
Plans Div. (OCAC), 316
Ploesti oil fields, 341
Podington, 63 I
Pogue, L.W., 361-62
Pohl, Lt. Col. H.B., 331
Point Barrow, 170
Pointe Noire, 3 3 0
Polebrook, 63 I
Polifka, Capt. Karl, 425
Polish Air Force, 89
Portal, ACM Sir Charles, C/AS RAF,
248, 253, 559-60, 566-67, 5737 602, 6231
627, 631, 646, 652
Port Blair, 500
Port Elizabeth, 3 3 1 , 494
Port Hedland, 330-3 I
Portland (Maine), 5 2 3
Port Moresby, 178-79, 182, 184, 384, 386,
408, 41% 414, 416-179 425, 447-5'1 47'-
729 4741 477-80. 483, 504
Port of Spain, 321, 324
Portugal, 3 2 6
Potsdam conference, 2 5 2
Pound, Adm. Sir Dudley, 2 5 3
Poynton, 650
Pratt, Adm. W.V., 30, 61-62, 67
President of US., 20, 23, 6711, 180, 194,
265, 367, 371, 487. See also Coolidge;
Harding; Roosevelt; Wilson.
Presque Isle, 344, 347-49, 641, 644-45
Press comment: B-17, 662-63; danger of
attack on Western Hemisphere, 150,
271, 279, 282, 285-86; US-British rela-
tions, 610; World War I, 6, 15
Prestwick, 344, 346, 356, 641, 644-45
Richard, Lt. W.J., 389
Prince of Wales, 232, 377, 438
Priorities, Pacific vs. ETO, 435-36, 472,
Production, 245-50, 666-67; between
wars, 56-57, 106-9; World W a r I, 7-
Production Management, Office of, 106,
Project A (19331, 65-69
Project X, 3 3 2 - 3 6 , 341. See also X, Task
558, 666
10, 16, 37, 5 5
1317 '33
Force.
Prome, 499
Puerto Rico, 120, 123-24, 161-63, 193,
7 8 2
274-75, 282, 3201 324, 3297 3557 4941
534-37
Punta Borinquen, 161
Pursuit aviation: for bomber offensive,
584; as compared to bombardment, 36-
37, 57, 65; designation changed to
"fighter," 307 n; flight across Atlantic,
640; question of UI< defense, 622-23
Pyle, Ernie, 286
Q
Qantas, 375
Queen Elizabeth, 375, 640
Queen Mary, 375
Quonset Point, 340
R
Rabaul, 178-79, 182, 184, 372, 377, 382,
Radar: antisub. equipment, 5 2 5 , 527, 5 3 3 ,
547, 549; British types, 288-91; devel-
opment, 55, 287-89, 293-94; in Hemi-
sphere defense, 152-53, 290-92, 296,
298, 302-3, 307-8, 465-66, 469; in
Pacific, 174, 186, 197, 220, 377, 383-84,
469, 476; training, 295; in UK, 288-91,
625-26
Radiation Laboratory (Mass. Institute of
Technology), 293-94
Radio. See Radar.
386, 408, 4103 413-14, 416-177 419, 427-
283 446-47, 470-741 47'3-81
RAINBOW NO. 5 , 139-41, 144, 147, 184,
190, 204, 2 1 3 , 236, 239, 271, 55% 577-
86, 629, 634
Ramsbury, 648
Randolph Field, 112-13
Ranger, 340
Rangoon, 395, 488-90, 492-93, 500-501,
509-10
Rawls, Lt. D.G., zoo
Reagan, Lt. C.L., 386: 398
Reconnaissance aviation: as a category,
64, 521; operations, 417, 44'3-50, 480;
redesignation of recon. sqs. as bomb.
units, 425
Regia Aeronautica. See Italian Air Force.
Reinforcements. See theaters.
Renault works, 593
Replacement Control Depot, ~ z t h ,615,
648
108-9, 128, 549-51, 604-5
Repulse, 232, 377, 438
Research and development, 54-60, 69,