“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
Sea W i t c h , 397-98, 484
Secretary of War, 20, 24, 26-28, 70, 1 1 5 ,
131, 134, 140, 157, 178, 180, 260, 271,
314, 328, 3 5 1 , 364, 485,. 548 (see also
Stimson); asst. for aviation, 29, 3 1 ;
Asst. Sec. for Air, 1 1 5 , 352; Second
Asst., 9, 24
Selective Service System, I 10-1 I
Selective Training and Service Act, I I I
Selfridge Field, 613
Semarang, 372
Services of Supply: air priorities func-
tion transferred to ATC, 362; in CBI,
495; organization, 264; in UK, 649-50,
652
Sewn-Mile Airdrome, 477
Seward, 170; Seward-Anchorage area,
Seychelles Is., 3 3 0
SHADOW 82, 578
Shanghai, 78, 2 3 2
Sharnbrook, 650
Shenandoah, 27
Shipping: losses, 39!-54! 515-18, 530,
534-36, 541, 547; priorities, 243; routes,
310-12, 404-5, 536, 548; shortages, 242,
374-757 4247 430. 538, 5473 6401 65'7
65 3
I 68
Shoho, 448-49
Shokaku, 448-49, 451
Short, Lt. Gen. W.C., 175, 180, 192-93
Shortland F., 447
Siemens, Lt. Col. Isaac, 508
Sierra Leone, 320, 329
Signal Corps: Chief Signal Officer, 7-8,
292-93; radar research, 55, 289-90. See
also Air Service; Aviation Sec.
Simard, Capt. C.T., 455-56
Simon, Frank, 5 1
sims, 449
Sinclair, AM Sir Archibald, 592
Sind desert, 496
Singapore, 183-84, 235-36, 242, 3671 4041
4279 4321 504
Sitka, 464.
Sixteen-Liberator project, 327-28
Skyways, 41
Singosari, 377, 379, 383, 394
SLEDGEHAMMER, 564-66, 571-73,
5889 5907 653
Slessor, AVM J.C., 567
Slessor Agreement, 134-35
Sneed, Col. A.L., 421
Soemba I., 372, 385, 390
Soerabaja, 2 3 1 , 371, 383-84, 386-87, 395,
427; Bay, 391
784
I N W O R L D W A R I 1
Solomon Is., 183, 410, 419, 425, 44-50,
470-76, 48p, 483; Resident Commis-
sioner (Brit.), 471
Sondre Stromfjord, 641
Soong, T.V., 487
Sotteville. See Rouen.
South Africa, Union of, 331, 494
South African Air Force, 9
South America, 147, 164, 240. See also
Airfields; Caribbean; South Atlantic
route.
South Atlantic air route, 123-24, 228,
South Atlantic Sector (ACFC), 337
South Atlantic Wing (ATC), 363
South China Sea, 209, z I I
Southern Defense Comd., 154
South Pacific air route, 18-83, 192-3,
Soryu,. 458
3 ' 2 , 3'9-421,354-569 3% 38874288,493-94
228-29, 331-329 3367 3 5 9 - 6 0 , 375, 380,
410-16, 419, 428-38, 447, 452-54, 560
South Pacific Area, 444, 454, 469, 473;
established, 419. See also South Pacific
route and specific islands.
South Pacific Wing (ATC),, 363
Southwest Pacific Area: air route via
South Atlantic, 228, 312-13, 328-36,
353-54, 359, 364. 428 (see also South
Pacific route); air service, 421-22, 482;
Allied Forces established, 419-20;
General Hq., 204-5, 208; operations,
397-98, 417, 425, 427, 4 4 6 5 % 48-81;
reinforcements, 227, 3 1 2 , 33637, 372,
376, 384-88, 40% 4087 413-147 452-54,
478, 562, 566; reorganization of bomber
units, 413-14; strategy for, 410-11,
472-74, 574, 576. See also ABDA;
Australia; NEI; Philippine Is.
Soviet Air Force, 79-80, 98, 1 3 3
Soviet protocol, 249
Soviet Union. See U.S.S.R.
Spaatz, Maj. Gen. Carl, 48, 60, 314; Air
Officer, ETOUSA, 591, 649-51, 656,
661, 663, 665; C G AFCC, 560, 614-15;
CG Eighth AF, 565, 570, 574, 582, 585,
587-91, 595, 606-7, 610, 616-17, 621-22,
625, 628, 637-38, 641-43, 645; Chief of
Air Staff, 262
Spanish civil war, 76, 83-84, 487
Spatz, Sgt. H.A., 442
Special Naval Observer Group, 123, 132,
'441 5773 594
Special Observer Group, U.S. Army, 109,
1 2 3 , 1 3 2 , 144, 252, 262, 577-82, 601,
618-20, 634,. 636
Sperry bombsight, 599, 601