By André Sobocinski5/1/2021If the Japanese surprise attack on Port Arthur, Liaodong Peninsula, in 1904 marked the beginning of the end of the Imperial Russian Navy, the Battle of Tsushima was undeniably its curtain call. Russian losses in the battle fought on May 27-28, 1905 amounted to 11 battleships, six destroyers, four cruisers sunk and some 4,380 sailors killed. |  | By André Sobocinski4/1/2021April 1st is the first day of the Major League Baseball season. For baseball fans across the globe “Opening Day” is a special occasion marking the return of America’s pastime—and with it, a hint of a post-pandemic world and return to normalcy. |  | By André Sobocinski3/1/2021Since 1920, when the first warships were named in honor of naval medical personnel, the US Navy has honored 15 physicians (Medical Corps officers) as namesakes for some 20 vessels. They range from heroic doctors who served on the battlefields of the Civil War, World War I and World War II to prominent leaders, innovators and pioneers who helped guide the Navy Medical Department in pivotal times in our history. |  | By André B. Sobocinski, Historian, BUMED2/1/2021Petty Officer Third Class William Barber deployed to Vietnam in June 1968, a little less than two years after enlisting in the Navy. When arriving in theater he was assigned to India Company, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines, 3rd Marine Division. |  | By André B. Sobocinski, Historian, BUMED1/1/2021When the United States acquired the Spanish colony of Florida in 1821, Key West was nothing more than a sleepy fishing village known originally known as Cayo Huesa (“Bone Reef”). Seeing the strategic value of the property, the Navy took control over Key West in March 1822 and renamed it “Thompson’s Island” in honor of the Secretary of the Navy, Smith Thompson. |  | By André B. Sobocinski, Historian, BUMED12/1/2020On Christmas Eve 1907, Rear Adm. Willard Brownson, Chief of the U.S. Navy Bureau of Navigation, submitted his resignation to President Theodore Roosevelt in protest against the president’s controversial decision granting medical officers full domain and command over naval hospital ships. Sometimes known as the “Brownson Affair,” the president’s action would slice into heart of the Navy hierarchy and thrust the issue of command authority into the public spotlight. |  | By André B. Sobocinski, Historian, BUMED11/1/2020On November 16, 1942, the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) commissioned Naval Hospital Harriman. Formerly known as Arden House, the facility had been the ancestral home of the U.S. ambassador to Russia, and later governor of New York, W. Averell Harriman. In August 1942, Harriman offered his home to the U.S. Navy for use as a hospital. |  | By André B. Sobocinski, Historian, BUMED10/1/2020On October 12, 1944, Lieutenant Commander Delbert McNamara wrote a letter to the Commander, Fifth Amphibious Force in which he praised the medical care he received aboard USS Rixey (APH-3). McNamara, himself a Navy doctor, was wounded when an enemy shell penetrated the 3rd Marine Division hospital during the Battle of Guam. |  | By André B. Sobocinski, Historian, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery9/1/2020Nearly 20 years after an era of self-imposed seclusion was broken by an American trade treaty, the Japanese ports in Tokyo Bay had blossomed into thriving marketplaces of foreign trade. Principal among them was Yokohama. |  | By André B. Sobocinski, Historian, BUMED8/1/2020On August 22, 1912, President William Taft signed into law an act creating a formal corps of uniformed dentists in the U.S. Navy. |  |
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