Inventory of the Osborne Bennett Hardison Papers, 1912-1954
Collection Number 3554
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Hardison, Osborne Bennett, 1892-1959.
- Title
- Osborne Bennett Hardison Papers, 1912-1954 (bulk 1941-1945).
- Call Number
- 3554
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 2,000 items (2.0 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- Additional Descriptive Resources
- A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Osborne Bennett Hardison Papers, #3554, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Aircraft carriers--Pacific Ocean--History--World War, 1939-1945.
- Enterprise (Aircraft carrier : CV-6)
- Hardison, Osborne Bennett, 1892-1959.
- Naval aviation--Study and teaching--United States--History--World War, 1939-1945.
- United States. Navy--Officers--Correspondence.
- World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Ocean--Naval operations.
Biographical Note
Osborne Bennett Hardison (1892-1959), native of Wadesboro, N.C., was a career United States naval officer, retiring as vice-admiral.
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Official and service-related personal letters and papers. The bulk of the material relates to World War II, when Hardison was commander of the aircraft carrier "Enterprise" in the Pacific, 1942-1943, and later chief of naval aviation training in the United States.