Exploring the history of Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery's World War II newsletter

Michael Rhode, the archivist for Navy Medicine, highlights the origins of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery's BUMED Gazette, an internal newsletter established during World War II.

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