This day in military history..

April 29
US Naval History
1814 - USS Peacock captures HMS Epervier
1898 - U.S. warships engage Spanish gunboats and shore batteries at Cienfuegos, Cuba
1944 - Fast carrier task force (12 carriers) commence 2 day bombing of Truk1975 - Operation Frequent Wind evacuation from Vietnam begins
 
April 29
711 Moslems invade Spain
1429 Joan of Arc arrives to lift the siege of Orleans
1483 Castile takes Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canarys
1587 Drake raids Cadiz Spain, inflicting wide spread damage/destruction.
1863 US Navy bombard CS batteries @ Grand Gulf Miss.
1916 British & Indian troops surrender @ Kut
1970 US & South Vietnamese troops enter Cambodia hunting VC/NVA
 
April 30
1794 Battle of Boulou
1863 Battle of Chancellorsville, Va
Battle of Camerone, Mexico. One of the most famouse of Last Stands. 62 French Foriegn Legionaires vs 2,000 Mexican troops.
1945 Hitler commits suicide & Soviet troops raise the Soviet flag over the Riechstag.
1975 Saigon & South Vietnam falls to the NVA.
 
May 1
US Naval History
1898 - Battle of Manila Bay, Adm Dewey defeats Spanish at Manila, Philippines
1934 - LT Akers demonstrates blind landing system at College Park, MD in OJ-2 aircraft
1945 - VADM Barbey lands Australian troops on Tarakan Island, Borneo, supported by naval gunfire
1951 - USS Princeton aircraft attack Hwachon Dam using aerial torpedoes, only use of this weapon in Korean War
1980 - 11 Navy ships begin operations assisting Coast Guard in rescuing Cuban refugees fleeing Cuba in overcrowded boats
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May 1
1863 Battle of Chancellorsville, Va 1st day of fighting
1960 U-2 shot down over the USSR.
1965 Battle of Dong-Yin
1982 Operation Black Buck. Vulcan bombers hit the airport @ Port Stanley, Falkland Islands
 
May 2
1863 Battle of Chancellorsville 2nd day Gen. Stonewall Jackson mortally wounded.
1866 naval battle of Callao
1885 Battle of Cut Knife Indians defeat Canadians
1964 USS Card sinks while docked @ Saigon, possible VC bomb
1982 Falkland Islands War HMS Conqueror sinks Cruiser Gen. Belgrano
 
May 3
US Naval History
1861 - USS Surprise captures Confederate privateer Savannah
1898 - Marines land at Cavite, Philippines, and raise U.S. flag
1949 - First Navy firing of a high altitude Viking rocket at White Sands, NM
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May 3
1808 Russia captures Sweden's Sveaborg fortress
1815 Battle of Tolentino
1861 Gen. Winfield Scott announces the Anaconda Plan
1862 Yorktown, Va evacuated by Confederates
1863 Battle of Chancellorsville 3rd day
1942 Japanese invade Tulagi
 
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May 4
1476 Battle of tewkesbury
1799 Battle of Seringapatam
1862 Yorktown, Va occupied by Union troops
1863 Battle of Chancellorsville, Va 4th day, Federal fleet bombards Ft. DeRussy on the Red River,La Gunboat USS Albatros damaged
1864 Battle of the Wilderness
1865 Gen. Richard Taylor surrenders the Army of Mobile & all CS troops in east La, Miss, & Ala.
1869 naval Battle of Hakodate
1942 Battle of the Coral Sea
1970 National Guard fires on anti war protestors @ Kent State University
1982 Falkland Islands War HMS Sheffield hit by Argintine Exocet.
 
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May 1
US Naval History
1898 - Battle of Manila Bay, Adm Dewey defeats Spanish at Manila, Philippines
1934 - LT Akers demonstrates blind landing system at College Park, MD in OJ-2 aircraft
1945 - VADM Barbey lands Australian troops on Tarakan Island, Borneo, supported by naval gunfire
1951 - USS Princeton aircraft attack Hwachon Dam using aerial torpedoes, only use of this weapon in Korean War
1980 - 11 Navy ships begin operations assisting Coast Guard in rescuing Cuban refugees fleeing Cuba in overcrowded boats
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Damn I missed Camerone day. Salute to the Capt D'Anjou and his FFL brothers - true inspiration and heroism.
 
May 4
US Naval History
1917 - First Navy ships, Destroyer Division 8, arrive at Queenstown, Ireland, to provide convoy escorts against German U-boats
1942 - Battle of Coral Sea, first carrier vs. carrier battle, begins
1945 - Japanese attempt to land on Okinawa repulsed; kamikaze attacks damage 6 U.S. Navy ships
1961 - Pilot CDR Malcolm D. Ross, USNR, and medical observer LCDR Victor A. Prather, Jr., ascended in two hours to over 110,00 feet in Strato-Lab 5, a 411-foot hydrogen filled balloon launched from from the deck of USS Antietam. This was the highest altitude attained by man in an open gondola. Tragically, Prather drowned during the recovery
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May 5
US Naval History
1944 - USS Comfort is commissioned in San Pedro, CA; first ship to be manned jointly by Army and Navy personnel
1948 - VF-17A becomes first carrier qualified jet squadron (USS Saipan)
1961 - CDR Alan Shepard Jr. makes first U.S. manned space flight. Flight of Freedom 7 (Mercury 3) which lasted 15 minutes and 28 seconds reached the altitude of 116.5 statute miles with a velocity of 5,134 mph. Recovery was by HUS1 helicopter of HMR(L)-262 from USS Lake Champlain(CVS-39).
1980 - USS Robert E. Peary rescues 440 Vietnamese refugees from disabled craft south of Thailand
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May 5
1862 Battle of Puebla, Mexico
Battle of Ft. Magruder, Va
1864 Battle of the Wilderness 1st day of fighting. Naval Battle Roanoke River, N.C. CSS Albemarle is escorting troop transports Cotton Planter & Bombshell & is intercepted by 4 US ships. Bombshell is captured & USS Sassacus damaged.
1936 Italians occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
1980 SAS storms Iranian Embassy in London ending siege
 
May 6
US Naval History
1909 - Great White Fleet anchors in San Francisco
1916 - First ship-to-shore radio telephone voice conversation from USS New Hampshire off Virginia Capes to SECNAV Josephus Daniels in Washington, DC
1942 - CAPT Milton Miles arrives in Chungking, China, to begin building an intelligence and guerilla training organization, Naval Group China
1945 - Naval landing force evacuates 500 Marshallese from Jaluit Atoll, Marshall Islands
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May 6
1527 Spanish & German troops sack Rome
1757 Battle of Prague
1863 Battle of Chancellorsville ends
1864 Battle of the Wilderness
1935 1st flight of the Curtiss P-35 Hawk
1941 1st flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
1942 Corrigidor surrenders to the Japanese
 
May 7
US Navy History
1779 - Continental Navy sloop Providence captures British brig Diligent off Cape Charles
1934 - USS Constitution completes tour of principal U.S. ports
1940 - FDR orders Pacific Fleet to remain in Hawaiian waters indefinitely
1942 - Carrier aircraft sink Japanese carrier Shoho during Battle of Coral Sea
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May 7
1862 Battle of Eltham's Landing, Va.
1915 U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania
1920 Polish troops capture Kiev
1951 Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends
 
May 8th 1945 was VE Day and I was dancing in the Streets of London, I was in the crowds out side Buckingham Palace cheering Churchill. Now that was a happy day, the war was not yet over but we could start to live a bit more of a normal life what ever that was.
 
May 8
1821 Battle of Gravia
1846 Battle of Palo Alto, Tx
1862 Battle of McDowell, Va
1864 Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Va
1942 Battle of the Coral Sea ends
1972 Pres. Nixon orders mining of N. Vietnamese ports
 
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