Index
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y
Fairbanks, Alaska, 455, 456
Fairchild, Gen. Muir S., 140
Falklands,
111
Far East. See also Hawaiian Islands; Japan; Pacific; Pearl
Harbor; Philippines; Singapore.
evidence of Japan's Southeast Asia
objectives, 502-05
problem of defense of Philippines, 411-52
problem of priority over Europe as war theater, 117-19
Field
artillery, effort to modernize, 152
Field manuals, improved, Ion
Finland, 311
First Supplemental Appropriation Act for Fiscal Year
1941, 170-71
First War Powers Act, 297 Five-day week, Roosevelt's
view of, 112
Fleet. See U. S. Fleet.
Flying fortresses disagreement over transfer to
Britain, 305-09
Foreign duty, limited number of officers assigned to, 146, 146n
Foreign policy and the armed forces
Anglo-American relations,
92-94, 99, 113-17, 119-20, 299-330, 367-410
Army planners' advance
from principles of passive defense, 87-89
committee formed for
continuous liaison between Army, Navy, and State Department, 89-91
co-ordination of arms production and supply, 115-17
dependent on
military power, 85
Far East, 107-70, 117-19, 411-52, 465-77,
494-519
firm proposal for Anglo-American military coordination,
119-23
growing German threat, 85-86
growing strategic importance of
the airplane,
100-01
hemisphere defense a factor in rearming, 94-97
Japan's imperial
aims encouraged, 107-110
Japan's invasion of Manchuria and China,
86
Joint Board initiates the Rainbow Plans, 103-04
joint estimate
of 22 June 1940, 110-13
Monroe Doctrine, 86, 88, 97, 102, 357
outbreak of war in Europe, 104-07
policy conferences with Great
Britain, 113-15
problem of priority of interest in war theaters,
117-19
revised interest in Ground Force development, 101-02
role of
the joint Army and Navy Board, 97-100
Roosevelt's quarantine speech
of 1937, 86
Roosevelt's strategy statement of 16 January 1941,
124-25
start at combined planning with Britain, 92-96
Formosa, 107,
503
Fort Shafter, 515
Fourth Army, 505
Frankfurter, Felix, 62n, 246
France
air force, 132, 137
Atlantic bases, 105
fall of, 95, 105
seeks arms from U. S., 131-34, 304, 309 311
Freeman, Air Chief
Marshal Sir Wilfrid R., 404
French Navy, 108, 109, 110
Fuchida,
Commander Mitsuo, 501
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