Official Flickr page of U.S. Navy Medicine & its headquarters, the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED). Please send questions to [email protected] and read an interview about the collection at www.flickr.org/navy-medicine-on-flickr-commons/

Documents and other files can be viewed at the Medical Heritage Library - archive.org/details/usnavybumedhistoryoffice . Our Facebook page is www.facebook.com/USNavyMedicine

Navy Medicine is an integral part of today’s Navy and Marine Corps team and has been a part of that team since the American Revolution. Today’s Navy and Marine Corps team is engaged in a global power competition. Our country depends upon Navy Medicine’s unique expeditionary medical expertise to prepare and support Naval forces, including both Navy and Marine forces. This renewed global power competition requires Navy Medicine to be more agile and capable of operating in a distributed maritime environment at the speed of our warfighters. The Navy-Marine Corps team’s ability to prevail across the range of military operations is dependent upon their medical readiness and our ability to enhance their survival in the high-end fight. Today’s Navy Medicine is built on the shoulders of those who came before us, including everything from shipboard and submarine medicine to research and development on the cutting edge of medical science. Items in this collection include both current and historical photos illustrating Navy Medicine’s role in the defense of the United States of America.

Navy Medicine participates in The Commons on Flickr to further its educational mission and to increase public access to its collections of images.

Navy Medicine's images that are part of The Commons on Flickr are marked "no known copyright restrictions." This means that we are unaware of any current copyright restrictions on the works so designated, either because the term of copyright may have expired without being renewed, because no evidence has been found that copyright restrictions apply, or because the work has been prepared by and officer of employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties and is not subject to copyright protection in the United States. For further information, see www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright

Navy Medicine's website is www.med.navy.mil/

Contributors:

The Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) is the headquarters for the Navy Medicine enterprise. Navy Medicine ensures Sailors, Marines and their families and retirees are healthy, ready and on the job – be it on land or sea.

BUMED's Office of Medical History. A historical component has existed at the US Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery since May 1907 with the establishment of the Publications Office. In addition to producing The Naval Medical Bulletin, the Publications Office was responsible for producing occasional historical monographs, and maintaining a historical archive. Today the Office of Medical History's mission has evolved to preserve and promote the history and heritage of the Navy Medical Department while serving the needs of our customers. The collection consists of publications, public records, manuscripts, personal papers, hospital plans, Navy Hygiene Museum records, biographical files, subject files, facility files, films, videos, photographs, prints, drawings, and artifacts. The OMH currently consists of over 100 collections covering over 1,000 linear feet and is staffed by a historian and an archivist. Non-photographic items from the BUMED's historian's office can be found on the Medical Heritage Library at archive.org/details/usnavybumedhistoryoffice