Horne, Frederick Joseph, 1880-1959.

Frederick Joseph Horne papers, 1893-1967 (bulk 1900-1945). - 1,700 items. 6 containers. 2.4 linear feet.

Open to research.

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.


Photographs
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
transferred to
Map
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.
transferred to


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.

mm 70014936


Ayres, William Augustus, 1867-1952 --Correspondence.
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 --Correspondence.
Nimitz, Chester W. 1885-1966 --Correspondence.
Nixon, Richard M. 1913-1994 --Correspondence.
Taishō, Emperor of Japan, 1879-1926.


United States. Congress --Hearings.
United States. Navy --Appropriations and expenditures.
United States. Navy --Aviation.
United States. Navy --Officers.
United States. Navy --Operational readiness.
United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.
United States Naval Academy--Students.


Coronations--Japan.
Military attachés--Japan--Tokyo.
World War, 1914-1918--Japan.
World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American.


Naval officers.