Frederick Joseph Horne papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1700
Subjects: Correspondence; World War, 1914-1918; Hearings; Students; United States Naval Academy; Appropriations and expenditures; Officers; United States; Military attachés; United States. Congress; American Naval operations; World War, 1939-1945; Aviation; Operational readiness; Coronations; United States. Navy; United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
Description: General correspondence (1919-1965), speeches and articles (1922-1946), congressional material (1943-1959), flight logbooks (1931, 1933-1937), minutes and reports (1945-1946), and other papers documenting Horne's naval career, including his duties as U.S. naval attaché in Tokyo, Japan, during World War I and as vice chief of naval operations during World War II.  Also includes material on the coronation of Crown Prince Yoshihito as Taishō, Emperor of Japan (1915), congressional hearings on naval appropriations, naval aviation, the navy and national defense, and Horne's studies at the United States Naval Academy.  Correspondents include William Augustus Ayres, Clarence Darrow, Chester W. Nimitz, and Richard M. Nixon.
Notes: Open to research.

Deposit, Naval Historical Foundation, 1968-1973.

Converted to gift, 1998.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.

Naval officer.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007125

Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.