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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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