![]() Two other Navy Surgeons General were honored as ship namesakes-Commodore J. Wood (DD-715) was commissioned, and served for 31 years. At the end of World War II, USS William M. Wood (DE-557) but were never constructed. Two other namesake destroyers were planned-William M. Just over forty years after his death, the Clemson-class destroyer, USS Wood (DD-317) was commissioned. ![]() In 1869, he was appointed the Chief of the Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and on March 3, 1871, Wood became the first naval officer to hold the title of Surgeon General of the Navy. Wood was a veteran of the Seminole Wars, the Mexican and Civil Wars. ![]() ![]() 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.Ĭommodore William Maxwell Wood, USN (1809-1880) holds the distinction as the first physician to be honored as a namesake for a Navy warship. Since 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. ![]()
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