1795: U.S. Navy Office of Purveyor of Supplies is established. This is the Navy Supply Corps Birthday.
1919: Launching of Osmond Ingram (DD-255), first Navy ship named for an enlisted man
1944: Carrier groups under Spruance attack Saipan, Tinian and Rota in the Marianas
1945: Marines and a Navy corpsman raise flag on Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima