Mar 17
45 Battle of Munda
624 Battle of Badr
1776 British evacuate Boston, Ma.
1860 New Zealand 1st Toranaki War begins
1865 Mobile, Al Campaign begins
1939 Battle of Nanchang
1988 Battle of Afabet

March 17
US Navy History

1898 - USS Holland, first practical submarine, launched
1942 - United States Naval Forces Europe established to plan joint operations with British
1958 - Navy Vanguard rocket launches 3.25 pound sphere from Cape Canaveral
1959 - USS Skate (SSN-578) surfaces at North Pole

Mar 18
1241 Mongols sack Krakow
1865 Battle of Bentonville, N.C. 1st day
1915 Gallipoli campaign Attempt by British/french fleet to force the Dardenelles result in the loss of 3 battleships.
1937 Battle of Guadalajara, Spain

March 18
US Navy History

1945 - Carriers begin 3 month Okinawa Campaign by destroying aircraft on Kyushu, Japan
1974 - Navy sent to sweep mines from Suez Canal

March 19
US Navy History

1898 - USS Oregon departs San Francisco for 14,000 mile trip around South America to join U.S. Squadron off Cuba
1917 - Navy Department authorizes enrollment of women in Naval Reserve with ratings of yeoman, radio electrician, or other essential ratings.
1942 - SecNav gave Civil Engineering Corps command of Seabees
2003 - Operation Iraqi Freedom begins with Tomahawk strikes from Navy ships and submarines.

Mar 19
1279 Battle of Yaman Mongols take China
1861 1st Taranaki War ends
1863 USS Hartford & USS Albatross run Confederate batteries @ Grand Gulf & arrive below Vicksburg, Ms
1865 Battle of Bentonville, 2nd day
1945 USS Franklin heavily damaged by Kamakazes

March 20
US Navy History

1833 - CDR Geisinger of Peacock negotiates first commercial treaty with King of Siam
1922 -USS Jupiter recommissioned as Langley, Navy's first aircraft carrier
1939 - Naval Research Lab recommends financing research program to obtain power from uranium.
2003 - U.S. began Operation Iraqi Freedom by launching cruise missiles from Navy ships in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf.

Mar 20
1739 Persians sack Delhi, India
1865 Battle of Bentonville 3rd day.

Mar 21
717 Battle of Vincy
1801 Battle of Alexandria, Egypt
1865 Battle of Bentonville 4th day. Off the Azores USS Sacramento & USS Niagra refuse a fight with the ironclad CSS Stonewall.
1918 Operation Micheal, the German Spring Offensive, begins.
1945 British liberate Mandalay, Burma
1968 Battle of Karameh

March 21
US Navy History

1917 - Loretta Walsh becomes first woman Navy petty officer when sworn in as Chief Yeoman.
1919 - Navy installs and tests Sperry gyrocompass, in first instance of test of aircraft gyrocompass
1945 - Bureau of Aeronautics initiates rocket-powered surface-to-air guided missile development by awarding contract to Fairchild