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
Radar, development of, 49, 50n
Rainbow Plans, 90, 95, 96, 101, 103-04, 106-07,
109, 122, 124, 125, 188, 197, 378, 445, 476,
482, 491, 517
Ramsey, Admiral DeWitt C., 370
Rearmament, effort to accomplish too many objectives, 143-45
Reclassification Board. Sec War Department Personnel Board.
Reclassification of officers, 241, 243, 244, 245-46
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 203, 203n,
481
Recreation. See Morale.
Reed, Maj. Gen. Walter L., 242n
Regimental commanders, appointment of, 275
Regular Army
advance planning for 4,000,000 men, 172-77
authorizations for garrison, 364-65
begins revision of its ordnance
planning, 134-36
controversy over sending soldiers overseas, 193
and defense of Latin America, 141-42
division strength, mid-1939,
148-49
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effect of reduced appropriations on
efficiency, 4, 15-26, 36-38, 85, 143-44, 145-46, 148, 160
effort
to build up antiaircraft establishment, 1939, 150-51
effort to
modernize field artillery, 1939, 152
improved organization, 1940,
238-39, 239n
infantry organization, 148-49, 149n, 158-60, 238
land tasks assigned to, 379
Marshall's efforts to prevent reduction
of forces, September-October 1941, 362-66
Mobilization plans I,
II, and III (1933), 26-29
organization, 26-29, 148-49, 149n.
158-60, 238-39, 239n
plans for a balanced development, 1938,
139-43
program for five trained divisions worked out, 102
provision
limiting Army to 165,000 average repealed, 154
restatement of plan
for expansion, February 1941, 318-21
revised interest in Ground
Force development, November 1938, 101-102
role in training,
185-89, 190, 197-98
strength, 24-25, 25n, 29, 148, 155n,
156-60, 17n
strength sought, 24, 101-02, 139-43, 144n, 149,
154-55, 157, 163, 168-69 169n, 172, 173, 175-76, 177-82, 185,
190, 198-201, 318-20, 343-45 361, 362
study of Ground Forces' need
for augmentation, 1938, 101-02
suggestions for reducing with
minimum injury, September 1941, 363-65
tank establishment,
mid-1939, 148
training, 118, 183-240
triangular infantry division,
158, 238
weaknesses revealed by maneuvers, 204-05, 209-10, 211,
237-38, 239-40
Removal Board. See War Department Personnel Board.
Reorganization Act of Congress, 1939, 202
Replacement training camps, officer candidate school quotas
allotted to, 271
Report of the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl
Harbor Attack. See Pearl Harbor, Congressional Inquiry on.
Report of the Survey of the Military Establishment (1929), 23-24
Research and development
co-ordinating power asserted within
General Std. 54-55
General Staff officer to be placed in each
civilian research and development agency, 55
hampered by fiscal
methods of the Bureau of the Budget, 47-49, 55
Marshall's interest
in, 50-56
new weapons and equipment, 38-42
reduction in
expenditures for (1936), 42-44
reluctance to spend money on, 32
Reserve officers: See Officers, Reserve.
Reserve Officers'
Association, 244n, 263
ROTC, 24, 186, 226, 254, 269, 270
Reybold.
Brig. Gen. Eugene, 317, 325, 331
Richardson, Admiral J. O., 92,
119, 470
Ridgway, Lt. Gen. Matthew B., 105
Roberts committee,
report on Pearl Harbor, 54. See also Pearl Harbor, Congressional
inquiry on.
Robin Moor, 218.
Robinett, Brig. Gen. Paul McD., 71n,
322, 388
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 78, 89, 90, 92, 214, 315, 355-56,
495, 512n
aid to Allies, 97, 99, 107, 110-13, 117, 124-25,
138-39, 139n, 282, 301, 304-05, 306, 307-08, 309, 316, 316n,
318-19, 321-23, 324, 347-49, 368, 477-78
air autonomy, 296
air
expansion, 45, 100, 126-27, 132-33, 135 136-39, 144, 175, 278,
278n, 299-300
Army appropriations, 144n, 1161, 1164, 166, 1167,
169, 170, 179-80
as Commander in Chief, 5-7, 66, 91, 93, 103,
109, 110, 126, 130-31
Atlantic bases, 486, 487-88, 489-90
co-ordination with Britain, 113-14, 338, 347,
367, 368-69, 370-71, 372, 373, 375, 382,
383, 384, 387, 399, 400-06, 411
defense of Hawaii, 507, 507n, 510
defense of Philippines, 414, 418-119, 421, 422n,
423, 426, 431, 432-33, 434, 435-36 450, 495
effort to avoid hostilities with Japan, 105-06,
504-07
Hemisphere defense, 89, 96, 105-06, 111, 411, 471-72, 479, 479n,
480, 482, 483. 484, 485,
86, 491-92
industrial production, 110-113, 179-80, 202-03,
334, 342 343, 351-52, 352n
National Guard, 217-18
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neutrality, 86, 304, 387-91
rearming, 126, 126n, 130-32, 144-45,
144n,
167. 333, 338-41, 342, 343, 346-49, 350,
351, 352, 354
relations with Marshall, 1, 6-7, 228
research, 49-50, 50n
Selective Service, 112, 113, 184, 184n, 185,
190-91, 195-96, 219, 221, 222-24, 225,
227-28
selection and promotion of officers, 247, 266
"shooting orders" in Western Hemisphere and
Atlantic, 383, 411
size of Army, 5-7, 102, 156, 156n, 157-58, 226-28, 362, 481
view on aid to Allies, 7, 111, 124-25, 132-33,
138-39, 13911, 282, 301, 304-05, 306, 307-08, 309, 322, 347-49, 362, 368
view on air expansion, 45, 126, 127,
132-33,
135, 137-39, 144, 175, 299-300
view on arms production, 167, 334,
338-39
view on co-ordination with Britain, 113, 119n,
370, 371, 372, 373
view on hemisphere defense, 105-06, 111-12, 124-25, 480
view on Navy, 92, 315
view on neutrality, 164, 304,
387, 390, 411
view on priority of Atlantic war, 111, 124-25
view on
rearming, 7, 97, 112, 130-32, 144, 164, 167, 179-80
view on Selective Service, 7, 112, 190, 195,
222-23, 227-28
view on size of the Army, 7, 157-58, 170, 227-28, 362
Root, Elihu, Jr., 57-58
Royal Air Force, 281
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