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Home Town West Quincy, MA
Last Address Lake Wales, FL
Date of Passing Mar 17, 1983
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
Wall/Plot Coordinates 3 1857
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Bartholomew William Hogan (born on January 29, 1901 in West Quincy, Massachusetts) was a psychiatrist, professor and Naval officer. Hogan graduated from Boston College in 1923 and received his medical degree from the Tufts College, School of Medicine, in 1925. He was appointed a lieutenant, junior grade, the same year.
Dr. Hogan trained at Washington's St. Elizabeth's Hospital and in the thirties he taught at Georgetown University, School of Medicine. In 1940 he was appointed chief of psychiatry at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Annapolis, Maryland. During World War II, he served as a Senior Medical Officer on several ships in the Atlantic and Pacific. He was appointed to the rank of Rear Admiral in 1952 and became Surgeon General of the United States Navy in 1955.
After he retired from the U.S. Navy in 1961, he served as Deputy Medical Director of the American Psychiatric Association until 1971.
Rear Admiral Hogan died on March 17, 1983 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. He was a member of the Army & Navy Club, the Chevy Chase Club and the New York Yacht Club. He was also chairman of the John Carroll Society.
Rear Admiral B.W. Hogan, Surgeon General of the Navy was presented with the MEDAILLE DE VERMEIL, the Medal of Honor of the French Navy Medical Service, at a special ceremony held in the office of the Surgeon General at the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery on January 10, 1957. The Medal was presented to Admiral Hogan by Rear Admiral Louis Mornu, Naval Attache for the French Embassy, Washington, D.C.
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Navy Distinguished Service Medal
Awarded for Actions During Cold War
Service: Navy
General Orders: All Hands (May 1961)
Citation: The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Distinguished Service Medal to Rear Admiral (MC) Bartholomew W. Hogan, United States Navy, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service in a position of great responsibility to the Government of the United States as Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and Surgeon General of the Navy, from February 1955 to February 1961. Rear Admiral Hogan established new objectives in all branches of Navy medical practice, patient care and internship and residency training. He initiated significant changes which doubled the size and scope of the Navy's Internship and Residency Training Programs and raised standards of training. The increased residency training opportunities, as well as improvements in morale, have resulted in a reduction of approximately 50 per cent in the annual turnover of Navy doctors. Under his skillful direction, the scope of medical research has been broadened in all area.
Navy and Marine Corps Medal
Awarded for Actions During World War II
Service: Navy
Rank: Commander
General Orders: Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin No. 315 (June 1943)
Citation: The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Commander (MC) Bartholomew W. Hogan, United States Navy, for heroism at the risk of life not involving conflict with an armed enemy as Senior Medical Officer of the U.S.S. WASP (CV-7) when that vessel was torpedoed by Japanese forces on 15 September 1942. Commander Hogan immediately took active charge of caring for the many painfully injured aboard a United States destroyer which had rescued him from the flaming oil-covered sea and continued his supervision of medical attention to the more seriously wounded until the early hours of the following morning, all in spite of serious burns on both hands and several fractured ribs.
World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater/Guadalcanal Campaign (1942-43)
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August / 1942
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February / 1943
Description The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by Allied forces, was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of World War II. It was the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan.
On 7 August 1942, Allied forces, predominantly American, landed on the islands of Guadalcanal, Tulagi, and Florida in the southern Solomon Islands with the objective of denying their use by the Japanese to threaten the supply and communication routes between the US, Australia, and New Zealand. The Allies also intended to use Guadalcanal and Tulagi as bases to support a campaign to eventually capture or neutralize the major Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain. The Allies overwhelmed the outnumbered Japanese defenders, who had occupied the islands since May 1942, and captured Tulagi and Florida, as well as an airfield (later named Henderson Field) that was under construction on Guadalcanal. Powerful US naval forces supported the landings.
Surprised by the Allied offensive, the Japanese made several attempts between August and November 1942 to retake Henderson Field. Three major land battles, seven large naval battles (five nighttime surface actions and two carrier battles), and continual, almost daily aerial battles culminated in the decisive Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in early November 1942, in which the last Japanese attempt to bombard Henderson Field from the sea and land with enough troops to retake it was defeated. In December 1942, the Japanese abandoned further efforts to retake Guadalcanal and evacuated their remaining forces by 7 February 1943 in the face of an offensive by the US Army's XIV Corps, conceding the island to the Allies.
The Guadalcanal campaign was a significant strategic combined arms victory by Allied forces over the Japanese in the Pacific theatre. The Japanese had reached the high-water mark of their conquests in the Pacific, and Guadalcanal marked the transition by the Allies from defensive operations to the strategic offensive in that theatre and the beginning of offensive operations, including the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, and Central Pacific campaigns, that resulted in Japan's eventual surrender and the end of World War II.
