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| No Photo Available | William Maxwell Wood (May 27, 1819 – March 1, 1880) was an officer and surgeon in the United States Navy in the middle 1800s. He became the first Surgeon-General of the U.S. Navy in 1871, with the equivalent rank of Commodore after rising to Chief of the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in the years following the American Civil War. In that role, Wood was instrumental in increasing the stature of the Naval Surgeon, by championing a bill eventually passed by Congress that increased the rank and compensation of physicians in the Navy, enabling the Navy to attract and recruit more qualified physicians.Wood is most remembered in U.S. Naval history for his daring journey through Mexico in 1846 at the onset of the Mexican-American War, where he eluded detection and capture as a U.S. spy in enemy territory and successfully provided vital intelligence leading to the possession of California by the Pacific Squadron, as well as providing intelligence information to the Secretary of the Navy in Washington regarding Mexican fortifications and military operations. Wood was also an accomplished writer, and authored three books chronicling his voyages with the Pacific and East India Squadrons, and his ideas on improving the U.S. Navy, as well as many literary articles for notable publications of his day. | Bill Gonyo | ||
| 116k | Undated image from the NAVSEA Journal. | Bob Bush | |
| 62k | Circa 1944-1946 | Ronaurd G. Golby, Mailman 3rd class | |
| 215k | The USS Valley Forge (CV-45) along with the USS William C. Lawe (DD-763), USS William M. Wood (DD-715), USS Lloyd Thomas (DD-764) and the USS Keppler (DD-765) during their 1948 World Cruise, location unknown. | Bob Bush | |
| 84k | Photo #: NH 99871, USS Yellowstone (AD-27) with destroyers and submarines alongside circa 1950. The destroyers are USS Rich (DD-820), Damato (DD-871), and William M. Wood (DD-715). One of the early Guppy conversion submarines is alongside to starboard. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. | Tony Cowart | |
| 86k | Photo #: NH 99872, USS Yellowstone (AD-27) with destroyers and submarines alongside circa 1950. The destroyers are USS Rich (DD-820), Damato (DD-871), and William M. Wood (DD-715). U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. | Tony Cowart | |
| 108k | In the South China Sea en-route to Bombay, India, 8 April 1950. | Robert Hurst | |
| 53k | Western Mediteranean October 1950. | Marc Piché | |
| 76k | Valetta, Malta June 20 1964. | Marc Piché | |
| 92k | USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (DD 850), USS William M. Wood (DD 715), and USS Charles F. Adams (DDG 2) at Barcelona, Spain, in late January 1970. If you look closely, you will notice that Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. was fitted with ULQ-6, while William M. Wood lacked this active countermeasures system. | Fabio Peña | |
| 98k | William M. Wood (DDR-715) at Kiel, Germany in June, 1975. | Gerhard Muller-Debus | |
| 49k | Portsmouth, England July 7 1975. | Marc Piché | |
| 92k | Norfolk Virginia, August 1975 | © Richard Leonhardt | |
| 81k | Mediterranean Sea, May 1976 | © Richard Leonhardt | |
| 120k | Mediterranean Sea, May 1976 | © Richard Leonhardt | |
| 85k | Mediterranean Sea, May 1976 | © Richard Leonhardt | |
| 84k | Ship's patch. | Mike Smolinski | |
| 65k | Ship's patch. | Mike Smolinski | |
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