This day in military history..

June 8
218 Battle of Antioch
1776 Battle of Trois-Rivieres, Quebec
1862 Valley Campaign:Battle of Cross Keys, & the Battle of Port Republic begins
1967 Israeli air & naval forces attack USS Liberty
1982 HMS Sir Galahad, Sir Tristram & Plymouth damaged by Argentine air strikes.
 
June 9
721 Battle of Toulouse
1667 Raid on the Medway
1798 Battle of Arklow & Battle of Saintfield
1862 Jackson's Valley Campaign ends with the Battle of Port Republic
1863 Battle of Brandy Station
1864 Union attack on Petersburg is repulsed
1959 USS George Washington is launched, 1st ballistic missle sub
1967 Israel captures the Golan Heights.
 
June 10
1619 Battle of Zablati
1719 Battle of Glen Shiel
1861 Battle of Big Bethel
1864 Battle of Brice's Crossroads
1918 Italian PT boat sinks Austro-Hungarian Battleship Szent Istvan
1940 Norway surrenders
1945 Australian troops land on Borneo
1965 Battle of Dong Xoai begins
1967 6 Day War ends
 
June 11
1429 Battle of Jargeau begins
1864 Battle of Travillian Station begins
1865 A running battle between Indians & Union cavalry takes place on the Great Plains.
1938 Battle of Wuhan, China. Also China creates a flood of the Yellow River to block Japanese advances, killing 500,000-900,000 Chinese
 
June 12
1429 Battle of Jargeau ends
1653 Battle of Gabbard
1798 Battle of Ballynahinch
1864 Battle of Travillian Station ends
1940 Trapped British & French troops in France surrender
 
June 13
1863 Battle of 2nd Winchester begins
1917 Gotha bombers conduct deadliest air raid on London in WWI
1944 Germans counterattack @ Carentan, & begin sending V-1s into London
 
June 14
1285 Battle of Chuong Duong
1645 Battle of Nasby
1775 Congress est the Continintal Army, birthday for the US Army
1789 Mutiny on the Bounty: Capt. Bly & a few sailors finish sailing 4,000 miles to safety in Timor in an open boat.
1807 Battle of Friesland
1830 France invades Algiers
1863 Siege of Port Hudson: 2nd large Union attack is repuled
1940 Germans occupy Paris
1982 Argentine forces in the Falkland Islands surrender
 
June 15
923 Battle of Soissons
1184 Battle of Fimreite
1219 Battle of Lyndanisse
1387 Battle of Kosovo
1863 Battle of 2nd Winchester ends with Confederates capturing most of the Garrison
1864 Union attack by 16,000 troops against only 5,000 Confederates makes great headway untill they dig in at dark, losing an opportunity to take Petersburg
1913 Battle of Bug Bagsak in the Phillipines ends
1944 US troops invade Saipan
 
June 16
1487 Battle of Stoke Field
1745 British capture Cape Breton Island & the Louisborg Fortress, Nova Scotia
1746 Battle of Piacenza
1755 French surrender Ft. Beausejuor
1779 Siege of Gibraltar begins
1795 1st Battle of Groix
1815 Battle of Ligny & Battle of Quotre Bras
1858 Battle of Morar
1862 Battle of Secessionville, S.C.
1864 Union troops are making progress twords Petersburg, but are stopped by reinforcements sent by Gen. Beauregard who's stripped the defences @ Bermuda Hundred. Union troops @ Bermuda Hundred then attack & over run the CS defences, but are forced back into their original lines by a 2 Division counter attack by Gen. Pickett.
 
June 17
1497 Battle of Deptford Bridge
1775 Battle of Bunker Hill
1861 Battle of Booneville, Mo
1862 Battle of St. Charles, Mo 4 Federal ships take on CS batteries untill Union troops, landed from a steamer, take the guns. Before they are captured, a shell explodes the boiler of the Ironclad USS Mound City, killing or severly scalding 149 of the 175 man crew.
1863 Ironclads USS Weehawken & Nahant forces the new Ironclad CSS Atlanta to surrender after she run aground & is defenceless.
1865 200 Sioux surprise a company of Union Cavalry @ breakfast & capture their horses. The troopers burn their saddles & walk back to Ft. Laramie
1876 Battle of Rosebud Creek Sioux defeat US Cavalry
1877 Battle of White Bird Canyon US Cavalry defeated
1940 RMS Lancastria sunk in air raid evacuating British troops from Saint-Nazaire, 1,700 to as many as 4,000 killed. British capture Ft. Capuzzo, Libya. Soviets occupy Estonia, Lithuania & Latvia
 
June 19
1179 Battle of Kalvskinnet
1306 Battle of Methven
1821 Battle of Dragusani
1864 USS Kearsarge sinks CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France
1944 Battle of the Philippine Sea begins
 
June 20
451 Battle of Chalons
1863 Battle of La Fourche, La
1900 Siege of the Legation Quarter in Peking begins
1944 Battle of The Philippine Sea ends
 
June 21
217 B.C. Battle of Lake Trasimene Hannibal defeats Romans
524 Battle of Vezeronce
1798 Battle of Vinigar Hill
1813 Battle of Vitoria
1824 Egyptians capture Psara
1826 Battle of Vergas
1898 US captures Guam from Spain
1900 China declares War on the US, UK, Germany, France & Japan
1919 Germans scuttle the High Seas Fleet @ Scapa flow
1940 france surrenders
1942 Germans & Italians capture Tobruk. Japanese sub shells Ft. Stevens, Oregon
 
June 22
217 B.C. Battle of Raphia
168 B.C. Battle of Pydna
1593 Battle of Sisak
1807 HMS Leopard attacks USS Chesapeake, a boarding party removes 4 R.N. deserters
1864 Siege of Petersburg: A Union attempt to extend siege lines further south is repulsed with heavy loses
1893 HMS Camperdown rams & sinks HMS Victoria killing 358 crew, including Vice Admiral Sir George Tryon
1941 Germany invades the USSR
1944 Soviets begin the Operation Bagration offensive
1945 Battle of Okinawa ends
 
June 24
637 Battle of Moira, Ireland
972 Battle of Cedynia
1128 Battle of Sao Mamede
1314 Battle of Bannockburn
1340 naval Battle of Sluys
1622 Battle of Macau
1812 Napoleon invades Russia
1813 Battle of Beaver Dams, Canada
1821 Battle of Carobobo
1859 Battle of Solferino
1861 US Navy ships exchange fire with CS batteries @ Mathias Point, Va
1862 Siege of Vicksburg begins
1864 USS Queen City is captured by CS troops & burned
1866 Battle of Custoza
1916 Battle of the Somme begins
1948 Berlin Blockade begins
 
June 25
524 Battle of Vezoronce
841 Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye
1862 Battle @ Fair Oaks
1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn
1944 Battle of Tali-Ihantala begins
1948 Berlin Airlift begins
1950 Korean Conflict begins
1996 Khobar Towers bombing
 
June 26th

1941: In the East, German forces of Heeresgruppe Nord capture Dünaburg in Latvia. The Luftwaffe carries out raids on Leningrad. Finland declares war on the Soviet Union.
1942: Generaloberst Rommel, C-in-C of the Afrikakorps is promoted to Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal).
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/june.html

1956: Sungei Siput, Malaya - Men of the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, attacked a Communist camp near Sungei Siput in Perak, Malaya. Three of the Communists were killed in the fight.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp

1943: Tunisia - RCAF bomber wing begins operating from North Africa; 3 squadrons; a prelude to invasions of Sicily and Italy.
source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Jun&day=26

1884 - Congress authorizes commissioning of Naval Academy graduates as ensigns
1918 - Marine brigade captures Belleau Wood
1959 - Twenty-eight Naval vessels sail from Atlantic to Great Lakes, marking the formal opening of Saint Lawrence Seaway to seagoing ships.
1962 - NAVFAC Cape Hatteras makes first Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) detection of a Soviet diesel submarine.
1973 - Navy Task Force 78 completes minesweeping of North Vietnamese ports.
source: http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/datesjun.htm

1862: General Robert E. Lee attacks McClellen’s line at Mechanicsville during the Seven Days’ campaign.
1863: Jubal Early and his Confederate forces move into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
1900: The United States announces it will send troops to fight against the Boxer Rebellion in China.
1916: Russian General Aleksei Brusilov renews his offensive against the Germans.
1917: General Pershing arrives in France with the American Expeditionary Force.
1918: The Germans begin firing their huge 420 mm howitzer, "Big Bertha," at Paris.
1924: After eight years of occupation, American troops leave the Dominican Republic.
1942: The Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter flies for the first time.
source: http://www.historynet.com/tdih0626.htm

1948: The Berlin Airlift began in earnest as the United States, Britain and France began ferrying supplies to the isolated western sector of Berlin after the Soviet Union cut off land and water routes.
1950: President Harry S. Truman authorized the Air Force and Navy to enter the Korean conflict. (The order, made on June 26, was not made public until June 27.)
source: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/gene.../20080626.html

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tomtom22 said:
June 26th


1918: The Germans begin firing their huge 420 mm howitzer, "Big Bertha," at Paris.


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"Big Bertha" was a short range 16.5" howitzer. The Paris Gun was an 8" gun aka The Long Range Gun.

June 26
1723 Russians capture Baku
1862 US Missisippi River Squadron begins bombarding Vicksburg.
1938 1st flight FW61, 1st practical helicopter
1941 Soviet planes bomb Hungary
 
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