Naval History and Heritage Command

The U.S. Navy Office of Purveyor of Supplies is established.

The first ship named for an enlisted man, USS Osmond Ingram (DD 255), is launched.

In an overnight raid, Task Force 58 planes bomb the Japanese at Saipan, Tinian, Rota and Guam in the first raid of the Mariana Islands.

Four days after landing on Iwo Jima, an invasion where uncommon valor was a common virtue, the United States flag is raised on Mt. Suribachi.