This day in military history..

6 Feb
1806 naval Battle of San Domingo
1862 Battle of Ft. Henry ends
1922 Washington Naval Treaty signed
1940 French Minesweeper Veteran sunk in a collision off Calais.
1942 UK declares War on Thailand. U-82 sunk by Sloop HMS Rochester and Corvette HMS Tamarisk north east of The Azores
1943 Corvette HMCS Louisburg bombed/sunk off Oran by Italian aircraft.
1944 U-177 sunk by a PB4Y west of Ascension. Minesweeper M-159 bombed/sunk off France.
2000 Russians capture Grozny
 
8 Feb
1250 Battle of Al Mansurah begins
1807 Battle of Eylau begins
1862 Battle of Roanoke Island
1904 Port Arthur Attack
1942 Battle of Singapore begins. Destroyer Natsushio damaged by US sub S-37 off Makassar, sinks next day.
1943 Trawler HMS Bredon sunk by U-521 off the Canary Islands. R.N. LCT 2335 lost as cargo when Norwegian ship SS Daghild sunk by U-402 and 608.
1944 U-762 sunk by Frigates HMS Woodpecker and Wild Goose.
1948 N. Korean Army Est.
1971 S. Vietnamese troops enter Laos
 
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9 Feb
1654 Battle of Ft. Rocher begins
1799 USS Constellation captures French Frigate L'Insurgente
1864 Libby Prison Escape
1937 1st flight Blackburn Skua
1940 Trawlers HMS Fort Royal and Robert Bowen bombed/sunk(Bowen with all hands) off Aberdeen
1942 Free French Corvette Alysse damaged by U-654, sinks next day off Cape Race. Patrol Ship HMS Tanjong Katong sunk by IJN ships off Singapore.
1943 Battle of Guadalcanal ends. Italian sub Avorio damaged by Corvette HMCS Regina, sinks next day in the Med. Corvette HMS Erica sunk by mine off Benghazi
1944 U-238 sunk by 3 R.N. Sloops. U-734 sunk by Sloops HMS Wild Goose And Starling.
1945 Rescue Tug HMS Hesperia runs aground/sinks off Libya.
 
Feb 10
1258 Siege of Baghdad ends
1814 Battle of Champaubert
1856 Battle of Sobraon
1862 naval Battle of Elizabeth City
1906 HMS Dreadnought launched
1936 Battle of Amba Aradan begins
1941 Trawler HMS Boy Alan sunk in a collision in the Thames Estuary.
1943 Battle of Krasny Bor begins
1944 Destroyer Minekaze sunk by sub USS Pogy off Formosa. U-545 damaged by RAF Wellington, scuttled.
1945 KM Sub Tender Ammerland sunk in a collision off Libau.
1964 Destroyer HMAS Voyager sunk in a collision with Carrier HMAS Melbourne off New South Wales
 
Feb 13
1739 Battle of Karnal
1941 Trawler HMS Rubens bombed/sunk south west of Ireland
1942 Minesweeper Chengteh bombed/sunk in the Rhio Strait. R.N. Motor Launch ML 310 bombed/scuttled Tjebia, D.E.I. Patrol Ship HMS Panglima scuttled, Gunboat HMS Scorpion shelled/sunk, both in the Banga Strait. Anti-Sub ship HMS Siang Wo bombed/beached on Banga Island. Patrol Ship HMS Trung scuttled at Singapore. Motor Minesweeper MMS 180 sunk in a collision off the Tyne. Sub HMS Tempest sunk by Italian Torpedo Boat Circe off Toranto.
1943 U-620 sunk by RAF PBY off Portugal
1944 Trawler HMS Cap 'd Antifer sunk by E Boats in the North Sea. US LCT-220 sank off Anzio
1945 Siege of Budapest ends. Corvette HMS Denbigh Castle sunk by U-992 in the Barents Sea. Sub RO-113 sunk by USS Batfish in the Luzon Strait.
1951 Battle of Chipyong-ni begins
 
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Feb 15
1898 Battleship USS Maine blows up at Havana.
1942 Battle of Singapore ends. Anti-sub vessel HMS Mata Hari shelled/sunk at Bangka Island. Patrol Boat HMS Dymas captured north of Muntok Light, and Patrol Boats HMS Klas and Jernantat scuttled at Palembang. Motor Launch ML 433 sunk in Banga Strait. Dutch Minelayer Pro Patia & Navy Tanker Semiramis scuttled at Palembang. Destroyer Van Ghent ran aground on Ross Island and scuttled. R.N. Yacht Siwa lost at Singapore. R.N. ML 169 burned/sank at Gibraltar.
1943 U-529 sunk by RAF B-24
1944 US LCT-35 bombed/sunk off Anzio. Cruiser Agano damaged by USS Scamp south east of Guam, sinks on 15th. RO-40 sunk by destroyers USS Macdonough and Phelps, and Minesweeper USS Sage north west of Kwajalein. I-43 sunk by sub USS Aspro east of Guam. Norwegian Motor Launch ML 210 sunk by mine off the Somme Estuary. KM minelayer Niedersachsen sunk off Toulouse. Vichy French Patrol Ship Ping Sang bombed/sunk by B-25s off Hongay, French Indochina.
1945 U-1053 sank in a diving accident while conducting Diving Trials in Byfjorden, Norway
1989 Soviets finish Afghanistan evacuation.
 
16 Feb
1270 Battle of Karuse
1646 Battle of Torrington
1804 Captured Frigate USS Philedelphia burned by USN raiding Party in Tripoli Harbor
1862 Battle of Ft. Donelson ends
1934 Austrian Civil War ends
1940 Altmarck Incident
1941 Trawler HMS Ormonde bombed/sunk off Peterhead. Trawler HMS Southsea damaged by a mine off the Tyne Estuary and beached.
1942 Patrol ship HMS Elizebeth and Harbor Defence Motor Launch 1062 shelled/sunk in the Bangka Strait. Minesweeper HMS Fuh Ho beached on Bangka Island.
1943 USS Amberjack depth charged and sunk by a Japanese airplane and Torpedo Boat Hiyodori and Sub Chaser CH-18
1944 R.N. LST 418 sunk by U-230 off Ponza Island. Sub Chaser CH-39 bombed/sunk by B-25s off New Hanover.
1945 Frigate CD-56 sunk by USS Bowfin east of Honshu. US LCI(L)-7, 26, 49 sunk, and LCI(L)-27 damaged and beached, by Explosive Motor Boats in Mariveles Bay. U-309 sunk by Frigate HMCS St. John off Muray Firth.
 
Feb 17
1500 Battle of Hemmingstedt
1814 Battle of Mormons
1864 USS Housatonic sunk by CS Army Sub H. L. Hunley, Hunley fails to return from the Mission
1942 KM Guardship NS21 sunk off Norway. Minesweeper USS Paramount ran aground and abandoned off Cape Hatteras, Refloated, repaired, returned to service. Minesweeper USS Detector sunk in a collision with Tanker Oswego off Boston, raised, repaired and returned to service. Dutch Destroyer Van Nes bombed/sunk, Patrol Ship HMS Tandjong Pinang shelled/sunk, both off Bangka Island.
1943 U-69 sunk by destroyer HMS Fame. U-201 sunk by Destroyer HMS Viscount off Newfoundland. U-205 sunk by Destroyer HMS Paladin off Libya.
1944 Battle of Eniwetok begins. Soviet sub ShCh-216 sunk by KM Sub Chasers UJ-103 and 106 west of Sevastopol. Minesweeper W-26 and Guardship Fuku Maru No. 2 sunk by USN aircraft off New Britain. Operation Hailstorm begins(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hailstorm)
1945 Venezuela declares War on Germany and Japan. Corvette HMS Bluebell sunk by U-711 in the Kola Inlet off Murmansk. Sloop HMS Lark sunk by U-968 north east of Murmansk. KM Minesweeper M-421 sunk by mine off Kolberg. U-425 sunk by Sloop HMS Lark and Corvette HMS Alnwick Castle near Murmansk. U-1273 sunk by mine near Horten. US Patrol Boat YP-94 runs aground in the Aleutians, either sinks the next day or on the 23rd. US LCI(L)-474 sunk by shore batteries off Iwo Jima.
1979 Sino-Vietnamese War begins
 
18 Feb
1268 Battle of Wesenberg
1637 naval Battle of Lizard Point
1814 Battle of Montereau
1900 Battle of Paardeberg begins
1940 Destroyer HMS Darling sunk by U-23 off Duncansby Head
1942 Trawlers HMS Botanic and Warland bombed/sunk in the North Sea. Patrol Ship HMS Malacca scuttled in the Demake River, Sumatra. Destroyer USS Truxton wrecked in Placentia Bay. Dutch Gunnery Training Ship Soerabaja bobmed/sunk, and Dutch sub K VII bombed/sunk while sitting on the bottom of Surabaya Harbor. Free French sub Surcouf either sunk in a collision with SS Thompson Lykes or bombed/sunk on the 19th north of Christobal, Panama.
1944 Cruiser HMS Penelope sunk by U-410 west of Naples. U-7 sank in a diving accident off Pillau. U-406 sunk by Frigate HMS Spey. Operation Hailstone ends: Destroyer Oite and Sub Chaser CH-29 bombed/sunk off Truk.
1945 KM Sperrbrecher 139 sunk by mine off Norway. U-2344 sunk in a collision with U-2336 off Rostock
1946 Royal Indian Navy Mutiny begins
 
19 Feb
197 Battle of Lugdunum
1649 2nd Battle of Guarapes
1865 Battle of Wilmington begins
1915 naval Dardanelles Campaign begins
1942 Battle of Badung Strait: Dutch Destroyer Piet Hein sunk. Darwin Air Raid: Patrol Boats HMAS Mavie and Coongoola, Destroyer USS Peary and USAT Meigs bombed/sunk.
1943 Battle of Kasserine Pass begins. U-268 sunk by RAF Wellington in Bay of Biscay. U-563 sunk by a Wellington and Destroyer HMS Isis and Escort Destroyer HMS Hursley. KM Patrol Boat V-408 sunk by USS Blackfish off Spain.
1944 U-264 sunk by Sloops HMS Woodpecker and Starling. U-386 sunk by Frigate HMS Spey.
1945 Battle of Iwo Jims begins. Sub Chasers CH-22 and 40 bombed/sunk by B-25s south of Kavieng, New Ireland.
1978 Larnaca Airport Raid
 
Feb 20
1339 Battle of Parabiago
1813 Battle of Salta
1815 HMS Cyane and HMS Levant captured by USS Constitution
1864 Battle of Olustee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Olustee
1940 Trawler HMS Fifeshire bombed/sunk in North Sea.
1941 Trawler HMS Marjory M. Hustie damaged by mine and beached, refloated, repaired, returned to service. Trawler HMS Ouse sunk by mine off Tobruk.
1942 Japan invades Netherlands Timor.
1943 Destroyer Oshio sunk by USS Albacore north east of Manus. US Minesweeper YMS-133 sinks off Coos Bay, Or.
1944 Destroyer HMS Warwick sunk by U-413 off Prevost Head. Sloop HMS Woodpecker damaged by U-256, sinks on the 27th. US LST-348 and R.N. LST 305 sunk off Anzio. US LCT-340 sinks off Algiers
1945 Corvette HMS Vervain sunk by U-1276, in turn she is sunk by Sloop HMS Amethyst. KM Torpedo Boat TA48 bombed/sunk at Trieste. Destroyer Nokaze sunk by sub USS Pargo off Nha Trang, French Indochina
 
Feb 21
1543 Battle of Wayna Daga
1808 Russians invade Sweden
1862 Battle of Valverde
1865 Battle of Wilmington ends
1916 Battle of Verdun begins
1919 1st flight Thomas Morse BM-3, 1st US designed Fighter
1941 Trawler HMS Lincoln City bombed/sunk in the Faroe Islands
1943 U-623 sunk by RAF B-24 south west of Ireland.
1944 Gunboat Kowa Maru and Aux. Sub Chaser CHa-48 sunk by B-25s north of New Hanover
1945 1st flight Hawker Sea Fury. Carrier USS Bismarck Sea sunk by Kamakazes off Iwo Jima. US LCT-175 sank in a storm off Palau.
 
22 Feb
1744 naval Battle of Toulon
1797 Battle of Fishguard begins
1847 Battle of Buena Vista begins
1899 2nd Battle of Manila
1940 KM destroyer Leberetcht Maass sunk by HE-111, Destroyer Max Shultz sunk by mine while rescuing survivors on the Dogger Bank
1941 Italian sub Marcello sunk by Destroyer HMS Montgomery in the Atlantic. Monitor HMS Terror bombed by JU-87s and struck 2 mines, bombed by Italian aircraft on the 23rd and sinks on the 24th.
1943 Corvette HMS Weyburn sunk by mine east of Gibraltar. US Patrol Boat YP-72 ran aground and sank Spruce Cape Alaska Terr. U-225 sunk by Corvette HMS Dianthus. U-600 sunk by USCG Campbell and Polish Destroyer Burza.
1944 Minelayer Natsushima sunk by 3 US destroyers off New Ireland. PT-200 sunk in a collision off Newport, R.I.
1945 R.N. LST 364 sunk by KM Midget Sub off Ramsgate. Corvette HMCS Trentonian sunk by U-1004 near Falmouth. U-300 sunk by Minesweepers HMS Recruit and Pincher and Armed Yacht HMS Evadne west of Cadiz.
 
feb 24
1303 Battle of Roslin
1525 Battle of Pavia
1813 HMS Peacock sunk by USS Hornet off Guyana
1863 USS Indianola damaged when rammed by CSS Webb, beached and abandoned.
1940 U-63 sunk by 3 R.N. ships south of the Shetlands
1941 destroyer HMS Dainty bombed/sunk by JU-88s off Tobruk
1943 R.N. MTB 262 bombed/sunk off Tunesia. Sub HMS Vandal sank in an accident in the Sound of Bute
1944 U-257 sunk by Frigate HMCS Waskesiu. U-761 damaged by a US PV-1 and USN and RAF PBYs, scuttled west of Gibraltar.
1945 Whaler HMS Ellesmere sunk by U-1203 north west of Brest. Cable Layer HMS Alert 2 sunk by U-5370 off Ramsgate. U-713 sunk by Destroyer HMS Keppel north west of Narvik. U-927 sunk by RAF Warwick south east of Falmouth. U-1208 sunk by frigates HMS Duckworth and Rowley south east of the Isles of Scilly. U-3007 bombed/sunk at Bremen. Sub I-371 sunk by sub USS Lagarto (hull no.SS 371!) in the Bungo Strait
 
Feb 25
1336 Battle of Pilenai
1831 Battle of Olszynka Grochowska
1836 Colt patents his revolver
1921 Red Army captures Tbilisi
1941 Italian Cruiser Armando Diaz sunk by sub HMs Upright off Tunisia. Destroyer HMS Exmoor sunk by a mine or E Boat S-30 north east of Lowestoft. Trawler HMS Sarna damaged by mine in the Suez Canal and beached.
1944 Destroyer HMCS Columbia runs aground off Newfoundland, refloated and used as a storage hulk until scrapped post War. Destroyer HMS Inglefield sunk by glide bomb off Anzio. destroyer HMS Mahratta sunk by U-956 off Nordkapp. U-601 sunk by RAF PBY north west of Narvik. US LCT-26 sank in a storm off Anzio.
1945 Turkey declares War on Germany. Frigate Shonan sunk by Sub USS Hoe south of Hainan
 
Feb 26
1233 Siege of Kaifing ends, began 8 April '32
1266 Battle of Benevento
1863 Confederates tricked into destroying the beached/captured USS Indianola near Vicksburg
1943 Trawler HMS Harstad sunk by E Boats in Lyme Bay
1944 U-91 sunk by 3 R.N. ships. US LST-349, LCT-39 sank off Anzio. US PT-251 runs aground and is sunk by shore batteries in Empress Augusta Bay
1945 I-368 and RO-43 sunk by TBFs from USS Anzio, and I-370 sunk by Destroyer Escort USS Finnegan, all near Iwo Jima.
 
Feb 27
1776 Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge
1829 Battle of Tarqui
1881 Battle of Majuba Hill
1900 Battle of Paardeberg ends
1941 Italian Armed Merchant Cruiser Ramb I sunk by Cruiser HMNZS Leander off the Maldives. Trawler HMS Remillo sunk by mine off the Humber
1942 Seaplane Tender USS Langley bombed/scuttled south of Java. Battle of the Java Sea: Dutch Cruisers De Ruyter and Java, destroyers HMS Electra and Jupiter sunk.
1943 Sub HMS Tigres sunk by Sub Chaser UJ-2210 off Capri. Trawler HMS Lord Hailsham, Norwegian Naval Trawler Harstadt, and R.N. LCT 381 sunk by E Boats in Lyme Bay. Norwegian Sub Tender Columbia sunk by U-516 off Simonstown, S. Africa
1944 Sub USS Grayback sunk by aircraft south east of Okinawa. R.N. Motor Fishing Vessel MFV 70 hit a submerged wreck and sank off Italy.
1945 U-327 sunk by Frigate HMS Labaon and Sloop HMS Loch Fada, later Loch Fada also sank U-1018.
 
Mar 3
1575 Battle of Tukaroi
1776 Battle of Nassau: 1st amphibious operation by Continental Navy & Marines
1779 Battle of Brier Creek.
1799 Siege of Corfu ends, began Nov 4,'98
1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ends Russian participation in WWI
1941 R.N. MGB 12 damaged by mine, sinks on the 6th. Trawler HMS Cobbers bombed/sunk off Lowestoft. Armed Yacht HMS Tiny bombed/sunk at South Dock, Southerland.
1942 Gunboat USS Asheville sunk by Destroyers Arashi and Nowaki south of Java
1943 Battle of the Bismarck Sea: Destroyers Arashi, and Shirayuki bombed/ sunk
1944 Minelayer Shirikami damaged in a collision with Nichiran Maru, sinks on the 5th.
1945 Battle of Manila ends. KM cruiser Koln bombed/sunk at Wilhelmshaven. Whaler HMS Southern Flower sunk by U-1022 off Reykjavik. Patrol Boat HMAS Southern Hour burns off Darwin.
 
4 Mar
1238 Battle of the Sit River
1814 Battle of Longwoods
1863 1st Battle of Spring Hill
1864 Richmond Raid ends
1913 Battle of Bizani begins
1941 Lofoten Raid: KM Patrol Boat Krebs sunk by Destroyer HMS Somali
1942 Depot Ship HMS Anking, Minesweeper MMS 51, and Sloop HMAS Yarra sunk south of Java
1943 Battle of the Bismarck Sea ends: destroyers Asashio and Tokitsukaze bombed/sunk near Finshafen. U-87 sunk by Destroyer HMCS St. Croix and corvette HMCS Shediac
1944 U-472 sunk by Swordfish and Destroyer HMS Onslaught off Bear Island
1945 Finland declares War on Germany. Sub Chaser CH-8 shelled/sunk by subs HMS Trenchant and Terrapin in the Malacca Strait.
1970 French sub Eurydice explodes/sinks east of Toulon
 
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5 Mar
1279 Battle of Aizkraukle
1811 Battle of Barrosa
1906 1st Battle of Bud Dajo
1912 Italy makes 1st use of airships in military role, recon of Turkish positions
1936 1st flight Spitfire
1943 1st flight Gloster Meteor. Sub USS Grampus sunk by Destroyers Minegumo and Murasame near the Blackett Strait, they in turn are sunk by US Cruisers and Destroyers in the Battle of Blackett Strait.
1944 Uman Batosani Offensive begins. R.N. Motor Launch ML 387 blew up and sank at Beirut. U-359 sunk by Swordfish off Norway. KM Sub Chaser UJ-1703 sunk off Norway.
1945 US LCS-127 wrecked on San Clemente Island. Minesweeper W-15 damaged by USS Tilefish and beached/abandoned on Akuseki Jima.
 
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