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August 13th, 2012
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1704 Battle of Blenheim 1777 David Bushnell attempts to destroy HMS Cerebrus with a floating torpedo, a small boat nearby is destroyed instead. 1806 Battle of Misar begins 1846 US occupies Los Angeles 1898 sham Battle of Manila 1920 Battle of Warsaw begins 1937 Battle of Shanghai begins 1940 R.N. Trawler Elizabeth Angela bombed/sunk in The Downs 1941 KM E Boat sinks a Soviet Patrol Ship north of Tallinn 1942 Destroyer HMS Foresight torpedoed by Italian SM-79s, & Cruiser HMS Manchester torpedoed my Italian MTBs MS-16 & MS-22 west of Malta, both are scuttled. Sub HMS Unbroken damages Italian Cruisers Bolzano & Attendolo. Attack Transport USS John Penn bombed/sunk off Guadalcanal 1944 Sub USS Flier sunk by mine in Balabak Strait 2008 Russians occupy Gori |
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August 14th, 2012
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Aug 14
1385 Battle of Aljubarrota 1415 Battle of Ceuta 1592 naval Battle of Hansan Island 1598 Battle of the Yellow Ford 1813 HMS Pelican captures USS Argus 1897 French capture Anosimena, Madagascar 1900 Allies occupy Peking 1916 Romania declares War on Austria-Hungary 1937 Chinese Air Force fighters shoot down 6 Japanese bombers during an air raid. 1940 South Folkestone Lightship bombed/sunk 1943 Sub HMS Saracen damaged by Italian Corvettes Minerva & Euterpe, scuttled to prevent capture 1944 IJN LSV-129 sunk by USS Cod in South China Sea. US LST-921 sunk by U-764 in Bristol Channel 1974 Turkey invades Cyprus |
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August 15th, 2012
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Aug 15
636 Battle of Yarmouk begins 718 Siege of Constantinople lifted 778 Battle of Roncevaux Pass, the death of Roland 1057 Battle of Lumphanan 1281 Battle of Koan ends when a storm(Kamakaze) destroys the Mongol invasion fleet 1307 Knights of St. John capture Rhodes & change their name to Knights of Rhodes 1599 Battle of Curlew Pass 1695 French bombardment of Brussels ends 1760 Battle of Liegnitz 1812 Battle of Ft. Dearborn 1895 USS Texas, 1st US steel hulled Battleship, is Commissioned 1914 Russia invades East Prussia 1940 Greek Cruiser Elli sunk in port by Italian sub Delphino during peacetime. 1942 Soviet sub M 97 sunk by Finnish Patrol Boat VMV 5 in the Gulf of Finland. 1944 Allies invade southern France. US LST-282 sunk by German Glide Bomb off St. Tropez. naval Battle of Port Cros: Destroyer USS Somers sinks KM Corvette UJ-6081 Camoscio and Sloop SG-21 Amiral Senes. R.N. ships sink KM Minesweeper M-385 & one other M/S, Flakship Richthofen, 1 merchant, 2 armed merchants & a tanker, and Torpedo Boat Elbing is damaged, off La Rochelle. 1945 Japan surrenders |
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August 16th, 2012
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Aug 16
1513 Battle of Guinegate 1777 Battle of Bennington 1780 Battle of Camden 1812 Ft. Detroit surrenders w/o a fight 1869 Battle of Acosta Nu 1870 Battle of Mars-La-Tour 1900 Battle of Elands River ends 1914 Battle of Cer begins 1940 Inspection Craft HMS Manx Lad & S.S. Meath are sunk by a mine detonated by Meath while being inspected 1942 Brazilian Troopship Baependy sunk by U-507 @ the mouth of Brazil's Real River |
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August 18th, 2012
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Aug 17
986 Battle of The Gate of Trajan 1862 US-Dakota War begins 1864 Battle of Gainesville, Fla 1914 Battle of Stalluponen 1941 Soviet Patrol Ship 80 sunk by E Boat S-58 off Tallinn 1942 USMC Makin Island Raid 1943 8th Air Force Schweinfurt-Regensburg Raids. Battle of Sicily ends. CAM ship S.S. Empire Stanley sunk by U-197 south of Madagascar 1944 naval Battle of La Ciotat: Destroyer USS Endicott sinks KM Corvette UJ-6082 Antilope & Armed Yacht Nimet Allah. Gunboats HMS Scarab & Aphis sink a merchant ship. |
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August 19th, 2012
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Aug 18
1864 2nd Battle of the Weldon RR begins 1870 Battle of Gravelotte 1941 Soviet Destroyer Statnyi sunk by mine in the Suur Strait 1943 US LST-396 sunk by an explosion off Vella Lavella 1944 IJN Cruiser Natori sunk by USS Hardhead east of Samar. Carrier Taiyo sunk by USS Rasher in South China Sea 1965 Operation Starlight begins 1966 Battle of Long Tan |
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August 19th, 2012
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Aug 19
1504 Battle of Knockdoe 1666 Terschelling Raid "Holmes' Bonfire" 1759 naval Battle of Lagos 1782 Battle of Blue Licks, Ky 1812 USS Constitution captures HMS Guerriere. A Hurricane wrecks the New Orleans Naval Station. 1940 1st flight B-25. Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Corfu is grounded at Freetown, Siera Leone, after being damaged in a collision in the mid-Atlantic July 10. She is repaired & returned to service in 1941. 1941 British Troopship Aguila sunk by U-201. R.N. Trawler HMS Thorbryn & 3 barges bombed/sunk off Tobruk. Soviet Hospital Ship Sibir bombed/sunk in Gulf of Finland. Norwegian Destroyer Bath sunk by U-204 s.w. of Ireland 1942 Dieppe Raid: Destroyer HMS Berkeley & 33 landing craft lost. 1944 Paris Liberated. U-466 scuttled at Toulon 1945 Viet Minh occupy Hanoi 1967 Operation Coronado IV begins 1981 1st Gulf of Sidra Incident 2010 Operation Iraqi Freedom ends |
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August 20th, 2012
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Aug 20
636 Battle of Yarmouk ends 917 Battle of Achelous 1467 2nd Battle of Olmedo 1710 Battle of Saragossa 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers 1914 Germans occupy Brussels 1940 R.N. Trawler HMS Resparko bombed/sunk in the Fal River at Falmouth. U-51 sunk by sub HMS Cachalot in the Bay of Biscay 1941 Italian Troopship Esperia sunk by sub HMS Unique off Tripoli. R.N. Trawler HMS Corinda cought on fire & sank off Freetown, Sierra Leone. Danish Naval Trawler Solarris sunk by mine off Iceland 1942 U-464 damaged by a US PBY Catalina & scuttled 1944 2nd Jassy-Kishinev Offensive begins. U-1229 sunk by aircraft from USS Bogue. U-9 sunk by Soviet aircraft at Constanta, Romania |
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August 21st, 2012
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Aug 21
1680 Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe 1689 Battle of Dunkeld 1778 Siege of Pondicherry begins 1808 Battle of Vimeiro 1863 Lawrence, Ks Raid 1918 2nd Battle of the Somme begins 1942 Guadalcanal: Battle of the Tenaru 1944 Corvette HMS Alberni sunk by U-480 in the English Channel. Sloop HMS Kite sunk by U-344 in the Barents Sea. KM supply ship Hako scuttled at Bayonne |
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August 23rd, 2012
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Aug 22
851 Battle of Jengland 1138 Battle of The Standard 1485 Battle of Bosworth Field 1642 English Civil War begins 1711 A British expedition to capture Quebec ends disasteriously when 7 transports & a storeship run aground in the St. Lawrence River drowning 850 soldiers 1717 Spain invades Sardinia 1777 Siege of Ft. Stanwix ends 1940 Italian sub Iride & Depot Ship Monte Gargano sunk by Swordfish from HMS Eagle 1941 Netlayer HMS Tonbridge bombed/sunk off Great Yarmouth 1942 Brazil declares War on Germany & Italy. Destroyer USS Blue damaged by IJN Destroyer Kawakazi off Guadalcanal, & Destroyer USS Ingraham is sunk in collision with Oiler USS Chemung off Nova Scotia 1943 Soviet motorboats DB-36 & 37 shelled/sunk by U-24 in the Black Sea 1944 Soviets capture Romania. Frigate HMS Bickerton & Escort Carrier HMS Nabob are damaged by U-354 in the Barents Sea, Bickerton is scuttled. Minesweeper HMS Loyalty sunk by U-480 in the English Channel. IJN Escort Ships Hiburi & Matsuwa sunk by sub USS Harder off the Bataan Peninsula. Escort Ship Sado sunk by sub USS Haddo in Paluan Bay. HMS Mauritius, Iroquois & Ursa destroy a KM convoy consisting of Flackships V-717, 730, 702, 729, & 720 plus 3 Minesweepers |
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