Papers of Frank Friday Fletcher [manuscript] 1873-1928.

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Papers of Frank Friday Fletcher [manuscript] 1873-1928.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647970667

The collection contains correspondence, official records and reports, scrapbooks, photographs & memorabilia of the naval career of Admiral Fletcher, Commander-In-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet and member of the War Industries Board. Topics of special interest include his naval inventions and innovations, official orders, 1875-1926, the Mexican crisis, 1913-14 and the occupation of Vera Cruz in April, 1914. There are several short articles and speeches, a diary, 1905, scrapbooks, 1898-1916, genealogical material, miscellaneous blueprints and sketches, and souvenirs, including a sailor's hatband from the U.S.S. Maine. Most of the correspondence is with his immediate family.

ca. 1,900 items. + photograph(s) (b&w)

University of Virginia. Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7933478

University of Virginia. Library

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War Industries Board.

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Fletcher, Susan Hunt Stetson

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Atlantic Fleet.

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United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

U.S.S. Maine.

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Fletcher (Destroyer)

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Fletcher, Frank Friday, 1855-1928

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Alpena, Michigan, lumberman and Republican member of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan. From the description of Frank W. Fletcher papers, 1875-1922. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34420282 Naval career: Admiral, Commander-In-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet and member of the War Industries Board. From the description of Papers of Frank Friday Fletcher [manuscript] 1873-1928. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647970667 ...