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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 |
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