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1795 - The U.S. Navy Office of Purveyor of Supplies is established.
1919 - The first ship named for an enlisted man, USS Osmond Ingram (DD 255), is launched.
1944 - 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.
1945 - 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.

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USS Osmond Ingram, the first ship named after an enlisted Sailor, is launched. While aboard USS Cassin in 1917, GM1 Ingram spotted an approaching torpedo, realized it would strike close by the ship's depth charges, thus dooming the ship, and rushed to jettison the ammunition. He was blown overboard when the torpedo struck, thus becoming the Navy's first enlisted man killed in action in WWI.