Destroyer Photo Index DD-715 / DDR-715 USS WILLIAM M. WOOD (original) (raw)

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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

USS William M. Wood (DD-715)

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Undated, alongside the USS Arcadia (AD-23).

Tommy Trampp

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Undated image from the NAVSEA Journal.

Bob Bush

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Undated, location unknown.

Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.

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Undated, location unknown.

Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.

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Undated, location unknown.

Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.

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Undated, location unknown.

Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.

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Undated, location unknown.

Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.

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Undated, location unknown.

Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.

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USS William M. Wood (DD-715) steams around the end of Manhattan Island, enroute from her builder to New York Navy Yard for commissioning.
Wide World photo A-59828, bylined 20 January 1946.

Dave Wright

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Circa 1945-1946

Ronaurd G. Golby, Mailman 3rd class

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At Guantanamo Bay during 1946, as seen from the USS Kearsarge (CV-33). From the collection of John R. Leone.

Dave Leone

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William M. Wood (DD-715) entering San Francisco Bay, circa 1946-1949.

Darryl Baker

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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 at Pearl Harbor.

Bob Bush

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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.
Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 99871

Tony Cowart

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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).
Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 99872

Tony Cowart

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Western Mediteranean October 1950.

Marc Pich�

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USS William M Wood (DD-715) during Gunnery Shoot in Atlantic, June 1961 picture taken from USS Boston (CAG-1).

Roy Williams

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View from 1962 Welcome Aboard pamphlet.

Ron Reeves

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At Genoa May 24 1962.

Carlo Martinelli

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At Genoa May 27 1962.

Carlo Martinelli

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Valletta, Malta June 20 1964.

Irwin Albrecht, LT (SC), USN (Ret.)

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William M. Wood in drydock at Philadelphia NSY during her FRAM refit. Picture taken from front over of Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, 29 November 1964. Officer on high reach is Captain Joseph J. Stillwell, Captain of the Yard.

Ron Reeves

Change of Command pamphlet - January 20 1965

Ron Reeves

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Post FRAM update image possibly in the Mediterranean.

Michael Goughan

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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 Pe�a

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View from the mid 1970's, location unknown.

Ron Reeves

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Three views of the Wood from Spring 1973 Eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea as she passes by the Soviet Kashin class DDG Krasny Krim.

Eugene Ivkin

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As above.

Eugene Ivkin

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As above.

Eugene Ivkin

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William M. Wood (DD-715) at Kiel, Germany in June, 1975.

Gerhard Muller-Debus

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Portsmouth, England July 7 1975.

Marc Pich�

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Norfolk, Virginia, August 1975.

� Richard Leonhardt

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Wood passing under the Yorktown River Bridge in October of 1975 heading for the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station to off-load ammo prior to be being decommissioned.

Dave Miller