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- Admiral Gary Roughead
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- Admiral Michael Gilday
- Master Chief Petty Officers of the Navy
- MCPON Delbert D. Black
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- MCPON Thomas S. Crow
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- MCPON Duane R. Bushey
- MCPON John Hagan
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- MCPON Terry D. Scott
- MCPON Joe R. Campa Jr.
- MCPON Rick D. West
- MCPON Michael D. Stevens
- MCPON Steven S. Giordano
- MCPON Official Photographs
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- Secretaries of the Navy
- Benjamin Stoddert (1798 - 1801)
- Robert Smith (1801 - 1809)
- Paul Hamilton (1809 - 1812)
- William Jones (1813 - 1814)
- Benjamin W. Crowninshield (1815 - 1818)
- Smith Thompson (1819 - 1823)
- Samuel Southard (1823 - 1829)
- John Branch, Jr. (1829 - 1831)
- Levi Woodbury (1831 - 1834)
- Mahlon Dickerson (1834 - 1838)
- James K. Paulding (1838 - 1841)
- George Edmund Badger (1841)
- Abel P. Upshur (1841 - 1843)
- David Henshaw (1843 - 1844)
- Thomas W. Gilmer (1844)
- John Y. Mason (1844-1845) (1846-1849)
- George Bancroft (1845 - 1846)
- William B. Preston (1849 - 1850)
- William A. Graham (1850 - 1852)
- John P. Kennedy (1852 - 1853)
- James C. Dobbin (1853 - 1857)
- Isaac Toucey (1857 - 1861)
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- Adolph Edward Borie (1869)
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- Charles F. Adams, III (1929 - 1933)
- Claude A. Swanson (1933 - 1939)
- Charles Edison (1940)
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- James Forrestal (1944 - 1947)
- John Lawrence Sullivan (1947 - 1949)
- Francis P. Matthews (1949 - 1951)
- Dan A. Kimball (1951 - 1953)
- Robert B. Anderson (1953 - 1954)
- Charles S. Thomas (1954 - 1957)
- Thomas S. Gates (1957 - 1959)
- William Birrell Franke (1959 - 1961)
- John Bowden Connally, Jr. (1961)
- Fred Korth (1962 - 1963)
- Paul B. Fay (acting) (1963)
- Paul Henry Nitze (1963 - 1967)
- Charles Fitz Baird (acting) (1967)
- Paul R. Ignatius (1967 - 1969)
- John Hubbard Chafee (1969 - 1972)
- John William Warner (1972 - 1974)
- J. William Middendorf (1974 - 1977)
- William Graham Claytor, Jr. (1977 - 1979)
- Edward Hidalgo (1979 - 1981)
- John Lehman (1981 - 1987)
- James H. Webb (1987 - 1988)
- William L. Ball (1988 - 1989)
- Henry L. Garrett III (1989 - 1992)
- Daniel Howard (acting) (1992)
- Sean Charles O'Keefe (1992 - 1993)
- ADM Frank B. Kelso, II (acting) (1993)
- John Howard Dalton (1993 - 1998)
- Richard Jeffrey Danzig (1998 - 2001)
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Navy Medicine
Navy medicine has a long and proud history. Continental Navy ships housed the first sickbays, where ship surgeons, assisted by loblolly boys, practiced their healing craft. Although science and medicine have changed over the last three centuries, Navy medicine’s mission of healthcare and readiness has remained constant.
Notable Navy Nurses
Notable Navy Medics/Hospital Corpsmen
- Edward Clyde Benford
- Wayne Maurice Caron
- William Richard Charette
- Richard Dewert
- LT Weedon E. Osborne, USN
- John Harlan Willis
Naval Medical Community Medal of Honor Recipients
Artifacts
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- World War I Washington D.C. Service Medal from Sacred 20 Nurse Elisabeth Leonhardt
Oral Histories
- U.S. Navy Nurse in the Pacific Theater during World War II: Recollections of CAPT Ann Bernatitus, NC, USN, (Ret.)
- Oral History of the Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941: Excerpt from Oral History of LT Horace D. Warden, MC (Medical Corps), USN, Medical Officer Aboard USS Breese (DM-18) on 7 December 1941
- U.S. Navy Nurse in Saigon, 1963, During Vietnam Conflict
- U.S. Navy Nurse Prisoner of War in the Philippines, 1942-1945
- Appendectomy Performed on Fourth War Patrol of USS Seadragon, 1942
- Support for Normandy June 1944; Recollections of Nurses
Videos
Publications
Additional Reading
- Navy Medicine Website
- WWII Navy Medical Facilities
- USNS Mercy Sets Sail for Pacific Partnership 2010
- T-AKE Ship Class Grows: USNS Matthew Perry Delivered to MSC, USNS Charles Drew Launched
- Hospital Ships Fact File
- 60 Years of Navy Medical Research Helps Save Lives Today
- Carlos Andreson (1905-1978) – art depicting medical subjects at naval hospitals
- Register of Patients at Naval Hospital Washington D.C. 1814
- Navy Nurse Corps General Uniform Instructions 1917
- Establishment of Navy Nurse Corps
- Surgeons of the War of 1812
- Surgeon's Mates of the War of 1812
- Navy Nurses Behind Enemy Lines in the Philippines
Additional Reading on the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
- “The Most Terrifying Experience”: The U.S. Navy and the Pandemic of 1918, historical essay by NHHC historian Thomas Shepherd, Ph.D.
- William Braisted, the Navy, and the Pandemic of 1918, historical summary by NHHC historian Thomas Shepherd, Ph.D.
- Influenza of 1918 (Spanish Flu) and the U.S. Navy
- The Great Flu Crisis at Mare Island Navy Yard, and Vallejo, California
- A Winding Sheet and a Wooden Box, recollections of Navy Nurse Josie Mabel Brown
- Philadelphia, Nurses, and the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918, James F. Armstrong, RN, BSN, CCRN
- A Forgotten Enemy: PHS's [Public Health Service] Fight Against the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
- Account of the 1918 Influenza by Vice Admiral Albert Gleaves, Commander of Convoy Operations in the Atlantic, 1917-1919
- Influenza on a Naval Transport, by W.F. McAnally, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy
- The Influenza Epidemic of 1918, by Carla R. Morrisey, RN, BSN
- Personal account by Rear Admiral William B. Caperton of the 1918 Influenza on
Armored Cruiser No. 4, USS Pittsburgh, at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Influenza-Related Medical Terms
- Influenza at the United States Naval Hospital, Washington, D.C., by R.M. Kennedy, Rear Admiral, Medical Corps, United States Navy.
- The Pandemic of Influenza in 1918-1919, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Public Health Service, National Office of Vital Statistics
Documentary Histories
- Captain Frank L. Pleadwell, Medical Inspector, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 9/13/1917
- Spanish American War: Naval Medicine
Finding Aids
- Naval Medicine
- Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
- Records of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, 1824-1970
- Nurses in the U.S. Navy: Bibliography and Sources
Navy Hospital Ships
- Intrepid (Ketch), 1803-1804
- Pawnee (Screw Sloop of War), 1858-1882
- Ben Morgan, 1861-1865
- Red Rover, 1862-1865
- Home, 1863-1865
- Idaho I (Steam Sloop), 1866-1874
- Sea Gate (Id. No. 2415), 1907-1919
- Relief (II), 1908-1910
- Adrian (Id. No. 2362), 1918-1919
- Southport (Screw Steamer), 1918-1919
- Relief (VI) (AH-1), 1920-1946
- Solace (I) (AH-2), 1898-1921
- Comfort (I) (AH-3), 1918-1921
- Mercy (I) (AH-4), 1918-1934
- Pinkney (APH-2), 1941-1946
- Rixey (APH-3), 1941-1946
- Solace (II) (AH-5), 1941-1946
- Tryon (APH-1), 1942-1946
- Comfort (II) (AH-6), 1944-1946
- Hope (AH-7), 1944-1946
- Mercy (II) (AH-8), 1944-1946
- Bountiful (AH-9), 1944-1946
- Samaritan (AH-10), 1944-1946
- Refuge (AH-11), 1944-1946
- Haven (AH-12), 1946-1957
- Benevolence (AH-13), 1945-1947
- Tranquillity (AH-14), 1945-1946
- Consolation (AH-15), 1945-1955
- Repose (AH-16), 1945-1970
- Sanctuary (AH-17), 1945-1971
- Rescue (AH-18), 1945-1946
- Mercy (III) (T-AH-19), 1986-Present
- Comfort (III) (T-AH-20), 1987-Present
H-Grams
- H-022-1: The Worst Killer of All—The Spanish Influenza, 1918–19
- H-Gram 043: The Spanish Influenza Epidemic of 1918–19
Selected Images
Say 'Ah-ah-h' Cartoon by E. Verdier, concerning the distractive effects of a Yeoman(F) on an officer, published as cover art for the October 1918 issue of Ukmyh Kipzy Puern, the magazine of the U.S Naval Cable Censor Office, San Francisco, California. The magazine's title is in Bently's Code, and translates as The Monthly 'Gob'. The cartoon, and the face mask drawn in upper right, may refect countermeasures against the 1918-19 influenza epidemic. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. (NH 97241)
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