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This Day in Naval History – Feb. 23

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 man1944 - Carrier groups under Spruance attack Saipan, Tinian and Rota in the Marianas1945 - Marines and a Navy hospital corpsman raise flag on Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima(Source: Navy News Service)