This day in military history..

September 24 US Naval History
1918 - Ensign David S. Ingalls, USNR, in a Sopwith Camel, shoots down his fifth enemy aircraft, becoming the first U.S. Navy ace while flying with the British Royal Air Force.
1944 - 5th Fleet carrier aircraft attack Japanese in Visayas, Philippines
1960 - First nuclear powered aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise (CVAN-65), launched at Newport News, VA
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Sept 25
1066 Battle of Stamford Bridge
1396 Battle of Nicopolis
1775 Battle of Longue-Pointe, Canada
1846 US troops capture Monterrey, Mexico
1861 battles in Lewisville & Chapmansville, Va
1915 2nd Battle of Champagne begins
1944 Operation Market-Garden ends
1955 Royal Jordanian Air Force established.
 
September 26 US Naval History
1781 - French fleet defeats British at Yorktown, VA
1910 - First recorded reference to provision for aviation in Navy Department organization
1918 - USCGC Tampa lost with 118 men, probably by German submarine
1931 - Keel laying at Newport News, VA of USS Ranger (CV-4), first ship designed and constructed as an aircraft carrier
1963 - First steam-eject launch of Polaris missile at sea off Cape Canaveral, FL (now Cape Kennedy) from USS Observation Island (EAG-154)
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Sept 26
715 Battle of Compiegne
1687 Siege of Athens: Venetian bombardment of Ottomans in Athens results in the Parthenon being partially destroyed.
1777 British troops occupy Phillidelphia
1918 Meuse-Argonne Offensive begins
1950 UN troops recapture Seoul, S.K. from North Koreans.
 
September 27 US Naval History
1922 - Report on observations of experiments with short wave radio at Anacostia, DC, starts Navy development of radar
1941 - Launch of first Liberty ship, SS Patrick Henry, in Baltimore, MD
1942 - Armed Guard on SS Stephen Hopkins engages German auxiliary cruiser Stier and supply ship Tannenfels. Stephen Hopkins and Stier both sink.
1944 - Special Air Task Force (STAG-1) commences operations with drones, controlled by TBM aircraft, against Japanese in Southwestern Pacific
1950 - First Marine Division captures Seoul, South Korea
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Sept 27
489 Battle of Verona
1331 Battle of Plowce
1529 Siege of Vienna begins
1605 Battle of Kircholm
1669 Siege of Candia ends after 21-24 years
1864 Battle of Ft. Davidson, Mo. Union troops repel Confederate assault, but abandon the Fort & blow the magazine that night. "Bloody Bill" Anderson's men Raid Centralia, Mo
1996 Taliban capture Kabul
 
Sept 28
351 Battle of Mursa Major
1066 William the Conqueror invades England
1106 Battle of Tinchebrai, England
1238 Moslem Valancia surrenders to Aragon
1322 Battle of Muhldorf
1708 Battle of Lesnaya
1781 Siege of Yorktown begins
1868 Battle of Alcolea, Spain
1939 Warsaw surrenders
 
September 28 US Naval History
1822 - Sloop-of-war Peacock captures 5 pirate vessels
1850 - Congress outlaws flogging on Navy ships
1923 - Navy aircraft take first and second places in international Schneider Cup Race
1944 - Marines occupy islands in Palaus under cover of naval aircraft and gunfire support.
1964 - First deployment of Polaris A-3 missile on USS Daniel Webster (SSBN 626) from Charleston, SC
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September 29 US Naval History
1944 - USS Narwhal (SS-167) evacuates 81 Allied prisoners of war that survived sinking of Japanese Shinyo Maru from Sindangan Bay, Mindanao
1946 -Lockheed P2V Neptune, Truculent Turtle, leaves Perth, Australia on long distance non-stop, non-refueling flight that ends October 1.
1959 - USS Kearsarge (CVS-33) with Helicopter Squadron 6 and other 7th Fleet unitsbegin 6 days of disaster relief to Nagoya, Japan, after Typhoon Vera.
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Sept 29
480 B.C. naval Battle of Salamis
1364 Battle of Auray
1848 Battle of Pakodz
1864 Battles of ft. Harrison, Ft. Gilmer & Chapin's Farm, Va
1990 1st flight of YF-22
1995 US Navy disbands VF-84
 
September 30 US Naval History
1800 - U.S. concludes treaty of peace with France, ending Quasi War with France.
1944 - USS Nautilus (SS-168) lands supplies and evacuates some people from Panay, Philipppine Islands.
1946 - U.S. Government announces that U.S. Navy units would be permanently stationed in the Mediterranean to carry out American policy and diplomacy.
1954 - Commissioning at Groton, CT, of USS Nautilus (SSN-571), the world's first nuclear-powered ship
1958 - Marines leave Lebanon.
1959 - Last flight of airshps assigned to the Naval Air Reserve at Lakehurst, NJ takes place
1968 - Battleship New Jersey arrives off Vietnam
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Sept 30
1399 Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo
1813 Battle of Barbula
1862 Battle of Newtonia, Mo
1864 Confederate counter attack @ Ft. Harrison fails, but is sucsessfull @ Peeble's Farm.
1975 1st flight AH-64 Apache
 
Oct 1
331 B.C. Battle of Gaugamela
1189 Seige of Acre: Gerard de Ridefort, Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is killed
1787 Battle of Kinburn, Russia
1795 France conquers Belgium
1827 Russians captur Yerevan
1918 Arabs capture Damascus
1942 USS Grouper sinks Lisbon Maru carrying Japanese troops & British POWs. 1st flight XP-59
1943 Allies capture Naples
1947 1st flight F-86
1992 Turkish Destroyer TLG Muavenet hit by missles from USS Saratoga during an Exercise
 
October 1 US Naval History
1800 - U.S. Schooner Experiment captures French Schooner Diana.
1844 - Naval Observatory headed by LT Matthew Fontaine Maury occupies first permanent quarters.
1874 - Supply Corps purser, LT J. Q. Barton, given leave to enter service of new Japanese Navy to organize a Pay Department and instruct Japanese about accounts. He served until 1 October 1877 when he again became a purser in the U.S. Navy. In 1878, the Emperor of Japan conferred on him the Fourth Class of Rising Sun for his service.
1880 - John Phillip Sousa becomes leader of Marine Corps Band
1928 - First class at school for enlisted Navy and Marine Corps Radio intercept operators (The "On the roof gang")
1937 - Patrol aviation transferred to Aircraft Scouting Force, a reestablished type command. With change five patrol wings were established as separate administrative command over their squadrons.
1946 - Truculent Turtle lands at Columbus, Ohio, breaking world's record for distance without refueling with flight of 11,235 miles.
1949 - Military Sea Transportation Service activated.
1955 - Commissioning of USS Forrestal (CVA-59), first of postwar supercarriers
1979 - President Jimmy Carter awards the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to former naval aviators Neil Armstrong, CAPT Charles Conrad, Jr., USN (Ret.), COL John Glenn, USMC (Ret.), and RADM Alan Shepard, Jr., USN (Ret.)
1980 - USS Cochrane (DDG-21) rescues 104 Vietnamese refugees 620 miles east of Saigon
1990 - USS Independence (CV-62) enters Persian Gulf (first carrier in Persian Gulf since 1974)
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October 2 US Naval History
1799 - Establishment of Washington Navy Yard
1939 - Foreign ministers of countries of the Western Hemisphere agree to establish a neutrality zone around the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North and South America to be enforced by the U. S. Navy
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Oct 3
52 B.C. Battle of Alesia
42 B.C. 1st Battle of Philippe
1574 Siege of Leidens ends
1861 Battle of Greenbriar, Va
1862 Battle of Corinth, Miss. 1st day
1935 Italy invades Ethiopia
1942 1st successfull launch of V-2 missle
1950 Battle of Marysang San
1993 Battle of Mogadishu "Black Hawk Down"
 
October 4 US Naval History
1821 - LT Robert F. Stockton sails from Boston for Africa to carry out his orders to help stop the international slave trade.
1944 - Aircraft from USS Ranger sink 5 German ships and damage 3 in Operation Leader, the only U.S. Navy carrier operation in northern European waters during World War II.
1952 - Task Force 77 aircraft encounter MIG-15 aircraft for the first time.
1976 - USS Jonas Ingram (DD-938) rescues 7 survivors of a Finnish motor craft that sank in the Baltic Sea.
1991 - USS Arkansas, USS Sioux, USS Aubrey Fitch and Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron SIX rescue personnel on merchant ships in three different rescue operations in the Arabian Sea.
1998 - U.S. and Algierian Navies conduct first bilateral exercise since Algerian independendence in 1962. It was a search and rescue operation involving USS Mitscher.
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Oct 4
663Battle of Baekgang, 1st day
1363 naval Battle of Lake Poyang ends
1636 Battle of Wittstock
1693 Battle of Marsaglia
1777 Battle of Germantown, Pa
1853 Crimean War: Ottomans declare War on Russia
1861 Lincoln's Cabinet approves contract for USS Monitor
1862 Battle of Corinth, 2nd day
 
Oct 5
1861 Monitor construction contract signed
1862 Battle of Big Hatchee River, Miss.
1863 CSS David, a semi-submersible, damages USS New Ironsides with spar torpedo off Charleston, S.C.
1864 Battle of Alatoona Pass, Ga
1914 1st aireal kill recorded
1915 Bulgaria joins the Central Powers
1944 Canadian fighters down german jet, 1st jet lost in combat

Oct 6
105 B.C. Battle of Arausio
69 B.C. Battle of Tigranocerta
68 B.C. Battle of Artaxata
1762 British capture Manila
1939 last Polish army defeated
1977 1st flight Mig-29
 
October 6 US Naval History
1884 - Department of the Navy establishes the Naval War College at Newport, RI (General Order 325).
1940 - Fourth group of 8 U.S. destroyers involved in Destroyers for Bases Deal are turned over to British authorities at Halifax, Canada.
1943 - In night Battle of Vella Lavella, 3 U.S. destroyers attack 9 Japanese destroyers to stop evacuation of Japanese troops from Vella Lavella., Solomon Islands
1958 - USS Seawolf (SSN-575) completes record submerged run of 60 days, logging over 13,700 nautical miles.
1962 - Commissioning of USS Bainbridge (DLGN-25), first nuclear-powered frigate
1987 - Destruction of 3 Iranian small boats
1997 - NASA Astronaut CDR Wendy B. Lawrence, USN returns from mission of STS-86: Shuttle -Mir 7 when Atlantis docked with Mir Space Station. The mission began on 25 September.
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