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
Nagumo, Admiral Chuichi, 501
National Aeronautic Association, 287
National Defense Act of 1916, 58
National Defense Act of 1920, 24-25, 36, 63, 6970, 83, 127, 157,
169, 193, 198, 241, 249, 273
National Defense Advisory Commission, 121, 278
National Defense Research Committee, 50, 54, 201
National Guard,
24, 106, 110, 115, 128, 141, 142, 143, 149, 150, 153, 154, 159,
185n, 186-87, 188-89, 193, 196, 243, 440
effort to stimulate promotion of officers, 258-63
Marshall urges
summoning of, 192-94, 223-25
Marshall warns of weaknesses in, 231
morale, 235
new promotion policies, 267-69
relations of officers with Regular
Army, 261-62
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retention beyond one-year term considered,
214-20
role in Initial Protective Force, 29-30
role in troop
training, 186, 193-94, 197, 211-12
tentative plan to send certain
units home, 365-66
timing of inductions, 1940, 213, 214
training
of, 212
weaknesses, 1940, 209
National objectives
Marshall's restatement of, 352-57
Patterson's memorandum on, 332-35, 336-37,
339
National Park Service, 472
National Recovery Administration, 34
National Research Council, 49, 128, 128n
National Strategic Decisions, memorandum on,
105-06
Naval limitation treaty, 414
Naval War College, 118n, 269n
Navy, U. S., 36, 80, 81, 82, 86, 121, 155, 188, 314-15, 341, 362n,
369, 416 437n, 444, 446, 450-51, 454, 453, 456, 457, 458, 460-61,
46567, 471-72, 473, 481, 482, 483, 485, 488, 490, 491, 497, 498n,
499, 511, 519. See also U. S. Fleet.
casualties in Atlantic, 41
co-ordination with Army through joint Board, 79-81
disagreement
with Army over Philippine defense, 416, 442, 450-52
dispute with
Army and British over conflicting orders comes to a head, 314-16
drafts Pot of Gold Plan, 96
on the eve of Pearl Harbor, 513, 513n,
514, 515
hostility to Army's munitions orders in September 1941,
357
importance of Pearl Harbor to the fleet, 465-66, 492-93, 500
joint experimentation with, 54
last-minute discussions on over-all
requirements for armed forces, 349-52
mistaken estimate of Japan's
intentions, 494-95
prewar relations with British Navy (1938), 92-93
proposals for Anglo-American co-operation in the Pacific, 391-93
proposal for neutrality patrol in west Atlantic, 387-91
quick
decisions after fall of France, 106
regarded as "first line of defense," 15, 44
reliance on British-French Navies for security in the Atlantic, 109
united command becomes an issue, 462-65
and warnings of late November 1941, 505-09
Nelson, Donald M., 203, 324, 512n
Nelson, Maj. Gen. Otto L., Jr., 75, 81, 81n, 82
Netherlands East Indies, 80, 116, 389, 391-93, 394, 396, 397, 398,
405 407, 443, 495, 502, 510
Neutrality, Roosevelt issues
proclamation of, 5 September 1939, 156
Neutrality Act, 164, 300,
304, 411
Neutrality patrol, 387-91
New Zealand, 378, 400
Newall,
Air Chief Marshal Sir Cyril L., 114
Newfoundland, 478, 479-81, 485
Niblack, 383, 390, 487n
Nolan, Maj. Gen. Dennis E., 22
Nomura, Kichisaburo, 447, 506
Northland, 485
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