Disarmament During WWII

President Roosevelt declared or national defense inadequate in the face of hostile preparations overseas which constituted “a threat to world peace and security” (Wesley Frank Craven, 1948, p. 101), then asked for appropriations, largely naval, to improve our defenses. The itemized list of requirements included a sum for antiaircraft materiel but not for aircraft. A year later, with conflict threatening in Europe and an undeclared war raging in Asia, the President asked for a much larger sum with which to strengthen our military establishment. This time Air Corps requirements accounted for more than a half the total request. These appropriations marked the beginning of a radical change in our foreign policy. A decade after World War I, denying the Law of war, on international disarmament, and the geographical isolation. In the mid-1930’s, as other great powers began to rearm, we had sought further to insulate ourselves against foreign wars by enacting neutrality legislation, which in effect revoked the government the right to distinguish ethically between aggressor nations and their victims. By the beginning of 1939 we turned to rearmament, and before the year ended, we started to scrap the neutrality restrictions. Three years before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the United States had been in preparation for war and
preventive measures. A war which we had not anticipate turned into a feeling of inescapable and challenged our way of life. When the war broke out in Europe in September 1939, the United States declared its neutrality. The policy states; to remain out of the conflict if possible and at the same time to keep the dictatorial powers out of the Western Hemisphere. The later objective demanded a further extension and acceleration of the previous programs for strengthening American armed. It called also, because the threat of new weapons and modes of warfare, for the establishment of new strategic bases. After the United States entered into World War II, the Army Air Forces was among the first organizations to display an active interest in maintaining historical record. The first months after Pearl Harbor left little time in a military headquarters for consideration of anything beyond the ways and means of meeting each successive emergency call. The Army Air Forces during the early 1930’s had been no more than a training and service organization.
Operating within the limits of the United States and establishing a nerve center controlling for large measures. The entire war effort in the air turned into a tactical and strategical employment by the Air Force. The development of aeronautical science exercise a profound influence, upon other military branches. The need of aeronautical engineers and aircraft manufactures paved the way to what Air combat power is today; precise by the power and meeting the standards in protecting the country in any conflict of
wars.