This day in military history..

19 Feb
197 Battle of Lugdunum
1649 2nd Battle of Guarapes
1865 Battle of Ft. Anderson ends. 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 21
1543 Battle of Wayna Daga
1692 Naval action in the West Indies, 7 R.N. ships fight 18 French ships
1808 Russia invades Sweden
1862 Battle of Valverde, New Mexico Territory
1916 Battle of Verdun begins
1919 1st flight Thomas Morse MB-3 Fighter, 1st US designed Fighter
1941 Trawler HMS Lincoln City bombed/sunk at Torshaun, Faroe Islands
1943 U-623 sunk by RAF B-24 south west of Ireland
1944 CHa-48 and Aux. Gunboat Kowa Maru sunk by B-25s north of New Hanover. KM Minesweeper R-131 sunk by British aircraft off Den Helder. R-222 sunk by mine in the Schlie Estuary
1945 1st flight Hawker Sea Fury. Escort Carrier USS Bismarck Sea sunk by Kamakazes off Iwo Jima. US LCT-175 foundered in a storm off Palau.
 
Feb 22
1316 Battle of Picotin
1744 naval Battle of Toulon
1797 Battle of Fishguard
1799 HMS Espoir captures Spanish "Africa" off Marbella
1815 Battle of Ft. Peter, Ga.
1847 Battle of Buena Vista begins
1864 Battle of Okalona
1865 Battle of Wilmington ends
1909 Great White Fleet finishes its around the World voyage
1940 KM Destroyer Leberecht Maass bombed/sunk by HE-111, Destroyer Max Schultz was sunk with all hands by a mine while trying to assist Maass on the Dogger Bank.
1941 Italian sub Marconi sunk by Destroyer HMS Montgomery west of the Hebrides.
1943 Corvette HMCS Weyburn sunk by mine east of Gibraltar. U-225 sunk by Corvette HMS Dianthus s.w. of Ireland. U-606 sunk by Polish Destroyer Burza and USCG Cutter Campbell in mid-Atlantic. US patrol boat YP-72 runs aground and sinks off the entrance to Kodiak, Alaska Territory
1944 PT-200 sunk in a collision off Newport, R.I.. Minelayer Natsushima sunk by Destroyers USS Charles Ausborne, Dyson and Stanly off Tingwon, New Ireland. CHa-29 sunk by mine off Keviang. Salvage/repair ship Nagaure sunk by 5 US destroyers near Kevaing.
1945 U-300 sunk by Minesweepers HMS Recruit and Pincher, and Armed Yacht HMS Evadne, west of Cadiz. Corvette HMCS Trentonian sunk by U-1004 near Falmouth. R.N. LST-364 sunk by KM Midget Sub off Ramsgate
1958 Indonesia bombs Badung, Sumatra and Menado, Celebes. E-Boats S-193 sunk, and S-167 driven ashore, at Anzio.
 
Feb 24
1303 Battle of Roslin
1525 Battle of Pavia
1809 naval Battle of Les Sables-d'Olonne
1813 HMS Peacock sunk by USS Hornet in 11 minutes off the mouth of the Demerara River, Guiana
1862 Union troops occupy Nashville and Harper's Ferry
1863 USS Indianola is rammed by CSS Webb, beached and abandond to the Confederates.
1940 U-63 sunk by 4 R.N. ships south of the Shetlands
1941 Monitor HMS Terror sinks off Derna after being bombed and hitting 2 mines on the 22nd & bombed again on the 23rd. Destroyer HMS Dainty bombed/sunk by JU-88s off Tobruk
1942 Turkish Navy Auxiliary Cancay sunk by Soviet sub ShCh-213 off Kara Burna
1943 Sub HMS Vandal sinks north of Arran. R.N. MTB-262 bombed/sunk off Cape Serrat, Tunisia. U-649 sunk in a collision with U-232 in the Baltic.
1944 U-257 sunk by Frigate HMS Wakesiu in the Mid-Atlantic. U-761 detected by a US Navy PBY equipped with MAD gear. Bombed/damaged by the PBY, a PV-1 Ventura and a RAF PBY. Scuttled when intercepted byDestroyers HMS Anthony and Wishart. 1st sub sunk as a result of use of MAD.
1945 Whaler HMS Ellesmere sunk with all hands by U-1203 in the English Channel. Cable Layer HMS Alert 2 sunk with all hands by U-5330 east of Ramsgate. U-713 sunk by Destroyer HMS Keppel in the Norwegian Sea north of Narvik. U-927 sunk by an RAF Warwick s.e. of Falmouth. U-1203 sunk by Frigates HMS Duckworth and Rowley s.e. of the Isles of Scilly. U-3007 bombed/sunk near Bremen. I-371 sunk by sub USS Legarto in the Bungo Strait.
 
Feb 25
493 Siege of Revenna ends
1336 Battle of Pilenai
1797 Last invasion of England defeated
1831 Battle of Olszynka Grochowska. Battle of Bialolenka ends
1836 Colt's revolver patented
1921 Red Army captures Tbilisi
1933 USS Ranger launched, USN's 1st purpose built Carrier
1935 1st flight He-111
1941 Italian Cruiser Armando Diaz sunk by sub HMS Upright off Kerkennah. Destroyer HMS Exmoor sunk by E Boat S-30 off Lowestoft. Trawler HMS sama struck a mine and was beached in the Suez Canal.
1944 Destroyer HMCS Columbia runs aground at St. John's, Newfoundland, made water tight and used as a storage hulk. Destroyer HMS Mahratta sunk by U-990 off Nordkapp, Norway. destroyer HMS Inglefield sunk by Glide Bomb off Anzio. U-601 sunk by RAF PBY off Nordkapp. USN LCT-26 foundered off Anzio in a storm.
1945 Turkey declares War on Germany. Frigate Shonan sunk by Sub USS Hoe south of Yulin, Hainan
 
Feb 26
1233 Siege of Kaifeng (began 8 April 1232)
1266 Battle of Benevento
1804 Siege of Fort Amsterdam, Willemstad ends
1813 British capture the island of Ponza
1815 Amercan Privateer "Chaseur" captures HMS St. Lawrence off Havana. Napoleon leaves Elba with 1200 troops to recapture France
1852 Frigate HMS Birkenhead sinks off South Africa. The standard of "women and children first" is set by this sinking. British troops on board remain behind because of inadequate number of lifeboats.
1863 The US Navy floats a dummy warship past Vicksburg, causing the Confederates to burn the captured and grounded USS Indianola.
1916 French Troopship Provence II is sunk by U-35 south of Cape Matapan. Apx 1,000 killed
1943 Whaler HMS Harstad sunk by E Boat in Lyme Bay
1944 Syria declares War on Germany and Japan. U-91 sunk by 3 R.N. Frigates in Mid-Atlantic. Net Layer USS Ailanthus wrecked off Alaska. USN LCT-36 wrecked off Naples. USN LST-349 ran aground and sank off Isola di Ponza. USN PT-251 sunk by shore batteries after running aground in Empress Augusta Bay, Bouganville. Vichy French Survey Ship Astrolabe sunk by B-25s off Tourane, French Indochina. Finnish MTB hurja sunk by Soviet aircraft at Helsinki.
1945 US captures Corregidor. I-368 and RO-43 sunk by Avengers, and I-370 sunk by Destroyer Escort USS Finnigan, near Iwo Jima
 
Mar 1
1476 Battle of Toro
1870 Battle of Cerro Cora
1896 Battle of Adwa
1901 Australian Army Est.
1941 Bulgaria joins the Axis. Trawler HMS St. Donats sunk in a collision with Destroyer HMS Cotswald. Trawler HMS Plowboy damaged by mine, or bombed, and beached at Malta
1942 Destroyer USS Edsall bombed and then sunk by Battleships Hiei and Kirishima and 2 Cruisers near Christmas Island. Tanker USS Pecos bombed/sunk near Christmas Island. 2nd Battle of the Java Sea:Cruiser HMS Exeter and Destroyers HMS Encounter and USS Pope sunk. Battle of Sunda Strait: Cruisers USS Houston and HMAS Perth, and Dutch Destroyer Evertson sunk, IJN Minesweeper W-2 and Landing Craft Depot Ship Shinshu Maru torpedoed/sunk by Cruiser Mogami when she missed the Allied Cruisers. Many Dutch Navy ships scuttled at ports in Java. U-656 sunk by US Navy Hudson off Cape Race, Newfouldland.
1944 Frigate HMS Gould sunk by U-358, who in turn is sunk by 4 other R.N. Frigates off Portugal. U-603 sunk by Destroyer Escort USS Bronstein s.w. of Ireland. U-709 sunk north of The Azores by 3 USN Destroyer Escorts.
1945 Torpedo Boat Manazuru sunk by US Navy aircraft off Naha, Okinawa. Minelayer Tsubame sunk by US Navy aircraft off Miyako Jima. E-Boat S-220 sunk by Frigate HMS Seymour.
2002 Operation Anaconda begins
 
Mar 2
537 Siege of Rome begins(ends Mar. 12, 538)
1476 Battle of Grandson
1776 Battle of the Rice Boats
1811 naval Battle of San Nicolas
1885 Battle of Hoa Moc begins
1940 Rescue Tug HMS Fairplay II wrecked at Redcar
1942 Australia declares War on Thailand. At Surabaya the following ships are scuttled: Dutch: Destroyers Witte De With and Bonckert, Subs K X, K XIII, K XVIII,Minesweepers "B" & "D", Minelayers Bangkalen, Soemenep and Rigel, Rigel sunk as blockship. Barracks ship Koning der Nederlands. US: Destroyer USS Stewart scuttled in a Dutch floating dry dock, will be raised, repaired and put in IJN service as Patrol Boat No.102.
Destroyers HMS Stronghold and USS Pillsbury sunk by IJN warships south of Java. Whaler HMS Shera ices up and capsizes/sinks in the Barents Sea. IJN midget sub Ha-13 sinks during a training dive.
1943 Battle of the Bismarck Sea begins. KM Minelayer Doggerbank sunk by U-43 in mid-Atlantic. US Sub Chaser SC-1024 sunk in a collision off N. Carolina.
1944 R.N. LST-342 sunk by U-744.
1945 U-3519 sunk by mine off Warnemunde. Soviet Patrol Boat BO-224 sunk by U-995 in Barents Sea. USN LCT-1029 wrecked/abandond at Iwo Jima
1949 A B-50 finishes the 1st around the World non-stop flight
1965 Operation Rolling Thunder begins
 
Mar 4
1238 Battle of Sit River
1814 Battle of Longwoods, Ont.
1865 Battle of Natural Bridge, Fla.
1913 Battle of Bizani begins
1941 KM Trawler Krebs sunk by Destroyer HMS Somali off the Lofetens Islands.
1942 Depot Ship HMS Anking, Minesweeper MMS 51 and Sloop HMAS Yarra sunk by IJN Cruisers south of Java
1943 U-87 sunk by Corvette HMCS Shediac and Destroyer HMCS St. Croix. Battle of the Bismarck Sea ends: US Army and RAAF aircraft sink abandoned Destroyers Tokitsukaze and Asashio.
1944 U-472 sunk by Destroyer HMS Onslaught and Swordfish from HMS Chaser.
1945 U-3508 bombed/sunk at Wilhelmshaven. Sub Chaser CH-8 shelled/sunk by subs HMS Terrapin and Trenchant in the Malacca Strait
1970 French Sub Eurydice sunk by an explosion while submerged.
 
Mar 6
961 Siege of Chandax ends
1204 Siege of Chateau Gaillard ends
1822 USS Enterprise captures 4 Pirate ships in the Gulf of Mexico
1836 Battle of The Alamo ends
1862 Battle of Pea Ridge begins
1938 Battle of Cape Palos
1940 Dutch sub O-11 sunk in collision with a Tug at Den Helder, raised Mar 10.
1941 Italian sub Anfitrite sunk by Destroyer HMS Greyhound off Crete. Trawler HMS Keryado sunk by mine in the English Channel south of Newhaven. Tug HMS Sun VII sunk by mine in Thames Estuary
1942 Dutch Minesweepers C and Pieter de Bitter scuttled at Surabaya
1943 R.N. Motor Launch ML-251 sunk in a collision in the Atlantic. Sub HMS Turbulent sunk by Italian Torpedo Boat Ardeto off Naples
1944 U-744 damaged and captured by Destroyer HMS Icarus, scuttled after attempt to tow to port failed. U-973 sunk by Swordfish from HMS Chaser in the Norwegian Sea.
1945 US captures Cologne. KM Destroyer Z-28 bombed/sunk in the Baltic
 
Mar 7
1799 Napoleon captures Jaffa
1814 Battle of Craonne
1902 Battle of Tweebosch
1940 French Aux. Minesweeper Marie Yette sunk in a collision on the Gironde
1941 U-70 sunk by Corvettes HMS Camellia and Arbutus. R.N. MTB 28 burns at Portsmouth.
1942 Dutch Minelayer Gouden Leeuw scuttled at Surabaya
1944 PT-337 sunk by shore batteries off Hansa Bay, New Guinea.
1945 US captures the Ludendorf Bridge. U-1302 sunk by 3 Canadian Frigates in St. George's Channell
1951 Operation Ripper begins
 
Mar 8
1722 Battle of Gulnabud
1862 Battle of Pea Ridge ends. Battle of Hampton Roads begins, USS Congress and Cumberland sunk
1865 Battle of Kinston begins
1916 Battle of Dujaila
1932 1st Battle of Shanghai ends
1937 Battle of Guadalajara begins
1942 Battle of Java ends, Dutch Minesweeper Jan Van Amsted sunk by IJN Destroyers in Madura Strait, Minesweeper Eland Dubois scuttled in Madura Strait and Minelayer Krakatau scuttled off Madura. Trawler HMS Nothern Princess sunk with all hands by U-587 off Newfoundland. Trawler HMS Notts County sunk with all hands south of Iceland.
1943 U-156 sunk by USN PBY east of Barbados. R.N. LCT-2480 lost as deck cargo when SS Fort Lamy sunk by U-527 in the Atlantic
1944 Bouganville: Battle of Hill 700 begins
 
Mar 9
1230 Battle of Klokotnitsa
1811 Battle of Tacuari
1847 Battle of Vera Cruz begins
1862 Battle of Hampton Roads ends with 1st battle between Ironclads.
1916 Pancho Villa's Columbus, N.M. Raid
1940 French Patrol ship Murad wrecked off Lebabnon.
1941 Trawler HMS Gulfoss sunk by mine off Hastings. Trawler HMS Hatsuse striks mine and is beached in Cawsand Bay. Refloated, repaired, returned to service.
1943 R.N. LCT-2341 lost as deck cargo when U-405 sinks Norwegian ship SS Bonneville. Trawler HMS Notts County sunk by U-701 east of Halifax.
1945 Granville Raid: KM Minesweeper M-412 scuttled, US Patrol Craft PC-564 shelled and beached, later refloated, repaired, and returned to service. Troopship Meteor II bombed/sunk by Soviet aircraft at Pillau. Vichy French Gunboats Frances Garnier, My Tho, Tourane, and Vigilante, Sub Chaser Avalanche all scuttled in French Indochina to prevent capture by the Japanese. Sub Chaser Commandante Bourdais bombed/sunk by Japanese.
 
Mar 10
241 B.C. naval Battle of Aegusa
1783 Frigate USS Alliance defeats Frigate HMS Sybil off Cape Canaveral, Fl., Sybil manages to escape after the fight ends. Last battle of the American Revolutionary War.
1814 Battle of Laon
1830 Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL) founded.
1831 French Foriegn Legion founded
1865 Battle of Kinston ends
1936 1st flight Fairey Battle
1942 Armed Merchant Cruiser Kongo Maru and Aux. Minelayer Tenyo Maru bombed/sunk by USN aircraft off Lae, New Guinea
1943 U-633 rammed/sunk by SS Scortun south of Iceland. R.N. MGB 622 sunk by KM warships off Tershelling, Netherlands.
1944 Destroyer Escort USS Leopold sinks after being torpedoed by U-255 on the 9th south of Iceland. U-343 sunk by Trawler HMS Mull north of Bizerta. U-450 sunk by 4 R.N. and one USN ship off Ostia, Italy. U-625 sunk by RCAF Sunderland west of Ireland. U-845 sunk by 3 RCN and one R.N. ship south-west of Ireland. Corvette HMS Asphodel sunk by U-575 north west of Cape Finistere. USN Sub Chaser SC-700 burns at Vella Lavella in a refueling accident.
1945 U-275 sunk by mine off Beachy Head. U-681 sunk by USN PB4Y west of the Isles of Scilly. Norwegian Naval Trawler Nordhav II sunk by U-714 off Dundee, Scotland. Vichy French Sloop Amiral Charner and Gunboat Marne scuttled in French Indochina.
 
Mar 12
538 Siege of Rome lifted, began 2 Mar 537
1550 Battle of Penco
1811 Battle of Redinha
1938 Germany occupies Austria
1940 Winter War ends
1942 Fleet Air Arm Target Ship HMS St. Briac sunk by mine east of Aberdeen. KM Minesweeper R-74 sunk by mine in La Manche.
1943 Destroyer HMS Lightning sunk by E Boats S-158 and S-55 off Algeria. U-130 sunk by Destroyer USS Champlin west of the Azores
1945 KM Depot ship MRS-4 sunk by Norwegian MTB off the Kvaloyta Lighthouse, Haugesund. Troopship Rolandseck bombed/sunk at Skagen, Denmark. U-260 sunk south of Glandore, Ireland probably by an uncharted underwater rock. Minesweepers R-243, 272, 273, 274, 275, and 276 sunk at Swinemunde.
 
Mar 14
1590 Battle of Ivry
1757 Adm. Sir John Bing executed
1780 Spanish capture British Ft. Charlotte, Mobile, Al.
1782 Battle of Wuchale
1862 Union troops capture New Berne, N.C. and New Madrid, Mo
1863 US Navy fleet tries to run past the batteries at Port Hudson. USS Hartford and Albatross make it, USS Mississippi runs aground on a mud bank in range of the batteries, the rest turn back.
1864 Red River Campaign: Battle of Ft. De Russy
1915 Cruiser SMS Dresden scuttled off Chile
1939 1st flight Martin Maryland bomber, only used by France and the UK.
1941 Trawler HMS Jeannie Leask damaged by mine and beached at Brightlingsea. Bombed/damaged on 25th. Refloated, repaired and returned to service. Italian Hospital Ship Po torpedoed/sunk by Swordfish at Vlore
1942 U-133 sunk by mine off Salamis. Italian Sub Ammiraglio Enrico Millo sunk by sub HMS Ultimatum off Calabria, Italy
1943 Trawler HMS Moravia sunk by mine in the North Sea. Sub HMS Thunderbolt sunk by Italian Corvette Cicogna off Sicily. Norwegian MTB 631 wrecked off Florio, salvaged by the Germans. KM Minesweeper M-10 sunk by R.N. MTB 353 off Dunkirk
1945 1st use of the Grand Slam bomb on Germany. U-714 sunk by HMSAS Frigate Natal and HMS Wivern in the Firth of Forth. U-1021 sunk by mine in the Bristol Channel. KM Troopship Hugo Zeye sunk by mine off Fehmorn, Germany. Torpedo Boats T-3 and T-5 sunk by mines at Hela, Prussia
1951 UN recaptures Seoul
1978 Israel invades Lebanon
 
Mar 15
933 Battle of Riade
1311 Battle of Halmyros
1781 Battle of Guilford Corthouse
1863 USS Mississippi is abandonded & set on fire, she drifts down river through the Federal fleet eventually blowing up.
1916 US troops invade Mexico in pursuit of Panco Villa after the Columbus Raid
1935 1st flight D0-18A flying boat
1940 Trawler HMS Peridot sunk by mine off Dover
1942 U-503 sunk by USN Hudson south east of Newfoundland. E Boat S-111 sunk by R.N. MGB. Destroyer HMS Vortigern sunk by E Boat S-104 off Cromer. USCG Lighthouse Tender Acacia sunk by U-161 south of Haiti
1943 3rd Battle of Kharkov ends. Sub USS Triton sunk by 3 IJN Destroyers off Kairiru Island
1944 U-653 sunk by Sloops Starling and Wild Goose and Swordfish from HMS Vindex west of Ireland. KM Minesweeper R-161 sunk at Livorno by aircraft.
1945 USS Lancetfish sinks at Boston Navy Yard while incomplete. Raised and decommissioned a week later. Scrapped in 1959 with out ever going to Sea.
2011 Syrian Civil war begins
 
Mar 17
45 B.C. Battle of Munda
1452 Battle of Alporchones
1560 Portugal captures Ft. Coligny
1677 Siege of Valecniennes ends
1776 Siege of Boston ends
1860 1st Taranaki War begins
1863 Battle of Kellysville
1865 Mobile, Al. Campaign begins
1898 USS Holland, 1st practicle sub, is launched
1936 1st flight Whitley bomber
1939 Battle of Nanchang begins
1941 U-99 sunk by HMS Vanoc and HMS Walker south east of Iceland. U-100 sunk by HMS Vanoc south east of Iceland. Armed Yacht HMS Mollusc bombed/sunk off Blyth
1942 Italian sub Guglielmotti sunk by sub HMS Unbeaten off Calabria. Rescue Tug HMS Adept wrecked in the Hebrides
1943 Dutch troopship Dempo sunk by U-371 north east of Bougie. PT-67 and 119 burned in a refueling accident at Tufi, New Guinea.
1944 U-28 sinks in a collision with a training target. All crewmembers escape after she sinks. U-801 sunk by Destroyer USS Cory and Destroyer Escort USS Bronstein and Avengers from USS Block Island west of the Cape Verde Islands. U-1013 sunk in a collision with U-286 east of Rugen in the Baltic. PT-283 sunk by Destroyer USS Guest off Bouganville.
1945 Minesweeper HMS Guysborough sunk by U-868 in the Bay of Biscay.
1947 1st flight B-45
1988 Battle of Afabet begins
 
Mar 18
1241 Battle of Chmielnik
1865 Battle of Bentonville begins
1915 Naval Battle of Gallipoli
1916 Battle of Lake Noroch begins
1941 Armed Boarding Vessel HMS Rosaura sunk by mine off Tobruk. Italian Torpedo Boat Aldebaran sunk by RAF at Vlore.
1942 Italian sub Tricheco sunk by sub HMS Upholder off Brindisi
1944 Aux. Sub Chaser CHa-10 sunk by Destroyer USS Daley off Wewak.
1945 U-866 sunk by 4 USN Destroyer Escorts east of Nova Scotia. Minesweeper R-227 sunk by Soviet aircraft north of Ustka. IJN Landing Ship T-18 sunk by sub USS Springer off Okinawa. An IJN midget sub was sunk by USN PV-1 Ventura in Davao Gulf.
 
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Mar 191279 naval Battle of Yamen1861 1st Taranaki War ends1943 U-5 sunk in diving accident west of Pillau. U-384 sunk by RAF B-17 south west of Iceland. KM Minesweeper R-40 sunk by R.N. sub in the Aegean1944 Germany occupys Hungary. U-1059 sunk by Avengers from USS Block Island south west of the Cape Verde Islands. IJN Aux. Sub Chasers CHa-47 and 49 bombed/sunk north of Wewak.1945 Carrier USS Franklin severly damaged off Japan. Carrier Ryuho bombed and irreparibly damaged off Kure. IJN Gunboat Suma sunk by mine in the Yangtze north of Kiangyin1982 Argentina invades South Georgia2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom begins2011 French Air Force intervienes in Libyan Civil War
 
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