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    What’s in a Name: Pharmacist’s Mate Third Class John Russell Litchfield and his Namesake Ship

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    What’s in a Name:  Pharmacist’s Mate Third Class John Russell Litchfield and his Namesake Ship

    FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES

    04.14.2023

    Photo by André B. Sobocinski, Historian 

    U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

    Pharmacist's Mate Third Class John Russell Litchfield, USN (1899-1918). Litchfield was the first hospital corpsman to have a warship named in his honor. To date, the Navy has named 22 destroyers and frigates after hospital corpsmen.

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    Date Taken: 04.14.2023
    Date Posted: 04.14.2023 11:27
    Photo ID: 7740190
    VIRIN: 230414-N-N1526-001
    Resolution: 1654x1654
    Size: 257.05 KB
    Location: FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA, US

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