US Naval Hospital Corps School - Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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COMMANDER CHARLES F. MANN, MSC, USN Administrative Officer U. S. Naval Hospital Charles Frank Mann was born on a farm in Midland County, Michigan, on 18 July 1905, son of Charles E. Mann and Henrietta fflellerj Mann. He attended public schools in Porter and Breckenridge, Michigan. He attended night courses of instruction in high school, Junior College and Universities. He received his Masteris Degree in 1946 in Commercial Science from South- eastern University, Washington, D. C. He enlisted as a Private in the U. S. Army Medical Department in 1920 and enlisted in the U. S. Navy as a Seaman, Second Class, in 1923. Except for brief periods between enlistments, he remained continuously on active duty for the past 36 years. He graduated from the Pharmacist Mates School in 1923, from X-ray Technicians School in 1927. In 1940, he completed training required to become an aviation medical technician. Following his return from the South Pacific in 1944, he attended a six months' ac- celerated course in Accounting and Business Manage- ment in Washington, D. C. After a tour of duty in the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, he attended the Naval School of Hospital Administration, Bethesda, Maryland. He has been assigned duty in 27 ships and stations, including duty with the Fleet Marine Force, Submarine Squadron Four and Patrol Wing Two. He has served six times in hospital ships, including duty in the USS Solace from prior to the Battle of the Coral Sea until after the Guadalcanal campaign. He was then directed to assume duty as Executive Officer of Medical Store- house No. 1 in New Zealand which provided medical supplies and equipment for the South Pacific. During his tour of duty in Samoa, thirty years ago, he was one of the first men in the South Pacific to pioneer the multiple pressure method in the vaccination of more than eight thousand natives against smallpox. In 1949 while serving as the Administrative Assistant to the Commanding Officer, U. S. Naval Hospital, Corona, California, the hospital was closed and he be- came the officer in charge of disestablishment. Follow- ing the outbreak of hostilities in Korea he reported for duty as Administrative Officer of the U. S. Naval Hospital, Camp Pendleton, California. His next assign- ment was as the Administrative Officer, U. S. Naval Hospital, Yokosuka, Japan. ln 1955 he reported for his present assignment as Administrative Officer, U. S. Naval Hospital, San Diego. Commander Mann received the Navy Good Conduct Medal with two stars, the Second Nicaraguan Campaign Medal, the American Defense Medal with Fleet Clasp, the American Theatre Campaign Medal, the Asiatic- Pacific Campaign Medal with one star, the World War II Victory Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Campaign Medalg and the United Nations Medal for service in the Far East. Commander Mann is married to the former Ella Lucille Miller of Wray, Colorado. They have two chil- dren, Mrs. Eugene Adams and Charles, Jr., also three grandsons, Steve, Gregg and Scott Adams.

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......1 , Administration Building, Golf Course in the foreground. l l i Looking west, Hospital Corps School in the foreground. This view of the Hospital looking north shows Officers, Quarters and swimming pool in the foreground. ,A s ,-Sffn