This day in military history..

Dec 30
1460 Battle of Wakefield
1702 Siege of St. Augustine ends
1862 Battle of Chicasaw Bayou ends
1939 KM Patrol ship V-704 sunk by mine
1940 R.N. Trawler HMS Bandolero sunk in collision with Destroyer HMS Waterhen off Solum
1941 Depot Ship HMS Kudat bombed/sunk in the Klang Straits off Port Swettenham, Malaya.
1942 Special Service Ship HMS Fidelity sunk by U-435, taking LCV-752 and 754, on board as deck cargo, along with her.
1944 Tanker USS Porcupine sunk, and Destroyer USS Gansevoort damaged and beached, by Kamakazes in Mangarin Bay, Mindoro. Gansevoort repaired and returned to service. PT Boat Tender USS Orestes damaged by Kamakazes and beached, repaired and returned to service. IJN Destroyer Kuretake sunk by sub USS Razorback s.e of Formosa. IJN Coast Defence Frigate CD-20 and Sub Chaser CH-18 sunk by 5th Air Force B-25s, A-20s and P-40s Lingayen Gulf.
 
Dec 31
406 Germanic tribes invade Gaul
535 Byzantines takes Palermo
1229 Aragon takes Majorca
1501 1st naval Battle of Cannanore begins
1775 Battle of Quebec
1862 Battle of Murfreesboro begins. USS Monitor founders in a storm off Cape Hatteras
1941 Soviet Patrol Boat CKA-094 bombed/sunk in Strait of Kerch
1942 Battle of the Barents Sea: Minesweeper HMS Bramble is sunk with all hands & Destroyer HMS Achates damaged, both by Cruiser Adm Hipper, Hipper damaged by Cruisers Sheffield and Jamaica, Sheffield sinks destroyer Friedrich Eckold with all hands.
Salvage ship USS Rescuer wrecked in the Aleutians near Scotch Cap.
1943 Minesweeper HMS Clacton sunk by mine off the east coast of Corsica. HMS HDML 1121 founders off Pantalleria.
1944 Hungary declares War on Germany. KM Minesweeper M-445 & U-2530 bombed/sunk at Hamburg. U-2530 is raised & bombed/sunk again on Jan. 17 & again on Feb. 20, '45
1994 Battle of Grozny begins
 
Jan 1
1776 British burn Norfolk, Va
1781 Continental Army's Pennsylvania Line Mutiny begins
1861 Bombardment between Union held Ft. Pickens & CS held Ft. Barrancas and the Pensacola Navy Yard begins
1863 Battle of Galveston: CS recaptures Galveston, capturing Gunboat USS Harriet Lane & destroying Gunboat USS Westfield
1940 Cruiser HMS Coventry bombed/damaged at Sullom Voe
1943 US LCT-21 lost as cargo when Liberty Ship Arthur Middleton is sunk by U-73. R.N. MTB-105 is scuttled by Corvette HMCS Woodstock in the Atlantic after floating away from the sinking Special Service Ship HMS Fidelity, sunk by U-435 on Dec. 30, '42
1944 Aux. Gunboat Okuyo Maru sunk by sub USS Ray in Ambon Bay.
1962 US Navy SEALs Est.
 
Jan 2
366 Alamanni invade Gaul
1492 Granada liberated from the Moors
1777 Battle of Assunpink Creek
1862 Bombardment between Ft Pickens & Ft. Barrancas anf the Navy Yard ends before daylight
1863 Battle of Murfreesboro ends
1869 Siege of Paysandu ends
1905 Siege of Port Arthur ends
1942 Japanese capture Manila, Clark Field & the Cavite Navy Yard. USN Launch YFB-683 & Tug YT-107 bombed/sunk at Cavite. Tug HMS Daisy founders between Alexandria and Tobruk
1943 Minesweeper HMS Alarm bombed/damaged off Bone, scrapped. Fleet Tug USS Grebe, grounded on Dec 6, 1942 at Vuanta Vatoa, Fiji Islands, is destroyer on the night of Jan. 1-2, 1943 by a Hurricane
1945 R.N. Trawler HMS Hayburn Wyke sunk by KM Seehund midget sub off Ostend. IJN Coast Defence Frigate CD-138, Transport Meiryu Maru & IJ Army transport Shirokawa Maru are sunk, and CD-66 damaged, by A-20s and P-38s at San Fernando, Luzon
1963 Battle of Ap Bac
 
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42. B.C: Brutus commits suicide:<br />
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1864, Civil War:<br />
Battle of Westport, Missouri<br />
Confederate GEN Sterling Price was defeated at the Battle of Westport, MO, ending Civil War fighting west of the Mississippi River.<br />
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1941 Soviets switch commanders in drive to halt Germans <br />
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1942: The British, led by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, launched a successful infantry attack against the Germans at El-Alamein, Egypt, during World War II. <br />
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1944: During World War II, U.S. forces under the leadership of Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr., commenced a decisive air and sea battle against the Japanese on the central Philippine island of Leyte. <br />
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1965, Vietnam War:<br />
1st Cavalry Division launches Operation Silver Bayonet <br />
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Jan 3
1777 Battle of Princeton
1940 Soviet sub S-2 sunk by mine in Gulf of Aland. R.N. Trawler HMS New Spray foundered in a storm off Sheerness.
1943 Unfinished Italian Cruiser Ulpio Traiano sunk by British Chariot manned torpedoes at Palermo
1944 Destroyer USS Turner sunk by internal explosions off Ambrose Light, N.Y.
1945 IJN Aux. Sub Chaser CHa-10 sunk by 13th Air Force B-25s at Davao. IJN Landing Craft Depot ship Shinshu Maru & IJ Army cargo ship Shoto Maru sunk by USN aircraft off the west coast of Formosa.
 
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Jan 4
46 BC Battle of Ruspina
871 Battle of Reading
1847 Colt's 1st pistol contract with US Govt.
1878 Sphia is liberated from the Ottomans
1910 USS Michigan, the US Navy's 1st Dreadnought Battleship, is Commisioned
1942 Armed Yacht HMS Sona bombed/sunk at Poole
1943 Norwegian Patrol ship Bodo sunk by mine off Aberdeen
1944 Soviet Sub M-36 sinks while undergoing trials off of Georgia. USN PT-145 runs aground & is scuttled off Mindiri, New Guinea.
1945 Carrier Ommaney Bay fatally damaged by Kamakaze, scuttled by Destroyer USS Burns. IJN Aux. Sub Chaser CHa-176 sunk and CHa-163 damaged and scuttled in the Formosa Strait, and IJN Transport Iwoto Maru sunk n.e. of Formosa, by US Navy aircraft. IJ Army Transport Horikosi Maru No. 15 sunk by mine n.e. of Mukai Jima
1951 Chinese/N. Koreans capture Seoul
1989 2nd Gulf of Sidra Incident
 
Jan 5
1477 Battle of Nancy
1675 Battle of Colmar
1781 R.N. forces led by Benedict Arnold burn Richmond.
1855 Crew of USS Plymouth skirmish with Chinese troops
1913 naval Battle of Lemnos
1940 R.N. Trawler HMS Kingston Cornelian sunk with all hands in a collision east of Gibraltar
1941 KM Patrol Ship V-303 Tannenburg sunk by mine. V-306 Fritz Hincke sunk by mine off Ijmuiden. Sloop HMS Lowestoft damaged by a mine in the Thames Estuary
1942 Italian sub Ammiraglio St. Bon sunk by sub HMS Upholder near Milazzo, Sicily. Italian Troopship Citta di Palermo sunk by sub HMS Proteus n.w. of Patras. Soviet Minesweeper Vrzyvatel bombed/beached at Eupatoria
1943 Cruiser USS Helena 1st to use proximity shells in combat.
1945 IJN transport no. 107, an LST, is sunk by Destroyer USS Fanning off Haha Jima. Transport No. 154,an LST, is sunk by 4 US Destroyers off Iwo Jima. Destroyer Momi sunk by USN aircraft wsw of Manila. Aux Net Tenders Kanko Maru & Shunsen Maru are sunk by USS Cavalla in the Java Sea. Midget sub Ha-71 sunk by PB4Ys off Chichi Jima.
1991 South Ossetia War begins
 
Jan 6
1118 Zaragoza liberated
1781 Battle of Jersey
1809 Invasion of Cayenne begins
1916 Flight training of enlisted men begins at Pensacola
1921 Iraqi Army formed
1928 Lt. Schilt wins Medal of Honor by flying 10 evac trips in a Curtis O2U Corsair in Nicaragua flying wounded Marines from a battle with rebels
1940 French Patrol Ship Barsac wrecked on the Islaons Rocks near Vigo, Spain
1943 U-164 sunk by USN PBY off Pernambuco. R.N. LCTs 106 and 107 founder in a storm off Benghazi
1944 Patrol Gunboat USS St. Augustine rammed/sunk by SS Camas Meadows off Cape May, N.J. R.N. Trawler HMS Wallasea sunk by E Boat off Mounts Bay, Cornwall.
1945 Destroyer-Minesweeper USS Long sunk by Kamakaze in Lingayen Gulf. Destroyer HMS Walpole damaged by mine off Flushing, Netherlands and scrapped. IJN Aux. Sub Chaser CHa-64 sunk by US Army planes off Poulo Condore Island
1967 Operation Deckhouse V begins
 
Jan 7
1558 France captures Calais
1863 Battle of Springfield, Mo begins
1940 Battle of Ratte Road ends. Sub HMS Seahorse is sunk n.w of Heligoland & Sub Undine is sunk s.w of Heligoland by a group of KM Minesweepers
1941 Italaian Sub Nani sunk by HMS Anemone in the Atlantic
1942 Siege of Bataan begins
1943 R.N. Trawlers HMS Horatio sunk by E Boat S-58 off Algeria & HMS Jura sunk by U-371 off Algiers
1944 Frigate HMS Tweed sunk by U-305 s.w. of Ireland. KM Seaplane Tenders Krischan and Bernard Von Tschirschky bombed/sunk by RAF at Kiel.
1945 Soviet Sub S-4 rammed/sunk by KM Torpedo Boat T-3 in Danzig Bay. Destroyer Hinoke, damaged by US Navy aircraft the day before, is sunk by 4 USN Destroyers off Manila Bay. IJN Stores Ship Shensei Maru bombed/sunk by 14th Air Force B-24s in the Formosa Strait. Guard ship Nichiei Maru No. 2 sunk by Sub USS Spot in the Inland Sea. Destroyer-Minesweeper USS Hovey torpedoed/sunk, and Destroyer-Minesweeper USS Palmer bombed/sunk by Japanese aircraft in Lingayen Gulf
1949 Israeli fighters shoot down 4 RAF Spitfires and a Tempest over Israel.
1979 Vietnam captures Phnom Penh
 
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Jan 8
871 Battle of Ashdown
1297 Francois Grimaldi captures Monaco
1815 Battle of New Orleans
1847 Battle of San Gabriel, Ca.
1863 2nd Battle of Springfield ends
1877 Battle of Wolf Mountain
1944 U -426 sank by RAAF Sunderland in Bay of Biscay. U-757 sunk by Frigate HMS Baynton and Corvette HMCS Canrose
1945 KM Patrol Ship V-5116 sunk by RAF at Korsfjord.
 
Jan 10
1127 Kaifeng Sacked
1863 Battle of Arkansas Post begins
1916 Gallipoli Campaign ends
1917 Battle of Rafa
1918 Battle of Bear Valley
1921 Battle of Inonu begins
1940 HMS Starfish damaged by KM Minesweeper M-7 off Heligoland and scuttled
1941 1st flight ARVO Lancaster
1942 I-73 sunk by USS Gudeon. Sub HMS Triumph sunk by mine. Destroyer HMS Vimiera sunk by mine in Thames Estuary
1943 1st flight Lockheed Contellation (C-69). RFA Tanker Minister Wedel sunk by U-522
1944 U-81 sunk by US aircraft at Pola.
1945 Free French Sub Chaser sunk by U-870 off Cape Spartel, Morocco. U-679 sunk by Soviet Patrol Boat MO-124 in the Baltic. IJN Coast Defence Frigate CD-3 sunk by USN aircraft north of Keelung, and Sub Chaser CH-61 sunk off southern Formosa.
 
Jan 11
1863 Battle of Arkansas Post ends. CSS Alabama sinks USS Hatteras off Galveston.
1940 Armed Yacht HMS Princess sunk in a collision with SS Blairmore in Bristol Channel
1941 Cruiser HMS Southampton bombed/damaged by JU-87s, scuttled east of Malta. R.N. MTBs 37, 39, 40, 74, 75 & 108 bombed & destroyed while under construction at Southampton. R.N. Trawler HMS Uberous wrecked off Londonderry
1942 Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur and land at Tarakan. US Army Transport Liberty damaged by I-166 and beached on Bali. Dutch Minesweeper Prins Van Oranje sunk by Destroyer Yamakaze and Torpedo Boat P-38 off Tarakan.
1943 PT 112 sunk & PT 43 damaged by Destroyers Hatsukaze and Tokitsukaze off Guadalcanal. PT 43 scuttled.
1944 Crusier Kumo sunk by sub HMS Tally-Ho n.w. of Penang
1945 US Minesweeper YMS-14 sunk in collision with Destroyer USS Herndon in Boston Harbor. Escort Carrier HMS Thane damaged by U-1172 in the Irish Sea, scrapped. Soviet Minesweeper T-76 Korall sunk by U-745 off Aegna Island. KM Minesweeper M-273 sunk by 2 R.N. Cruisers and 3 Destroyers near Egersund. IJN Aux. Minesweeper WA-10 sunk by US Destroyer south of Vigan. Aux. Minesweepers Banshu Maru and Hakuyo Maru sunk as blockships in southern entrance to Manila Bay.
1962 Soviet sub B-37 destroyed by fire in the torpedo comparment.
 
Jan 12
1813 USS Chesapeake captures HMS Volunteer
1940 R.N. Trawler HMS Valdora bombed/sunk off Cromer.
1942 Japan captures Tarakan. U-374 sunk by sub HMS Unbeaten east of Cape Spartivento. IJN Minesweepers W-13 and 14 are sunk by Dutch shore batteries at Tarakan
1943 Destroyer USS Worden wrecked at Amchitka, Alaska. PT-28 wrecked at Unimak, Alaska. R. N. Trawler HMS Kingston Jacinth sunk by mine off Plymouth. IJN Patrol Boat No. 1 sunk by USS Guardfish off New Hanover, Bismarcks.
1945 Minesweeper HMS Regulus sunk by mine off Corfu. USN LCI(L)-600 sunk at Ulithi by Kaiten suicide submarine. Finnish Minelayer Louhi sunk by U-370 in Gulf of Finland. Task Force 38 aircraft have a field day off French Indochina sinking Cruiser Kashii, Escort ship Chiburi, Coast Defence Frigates CD 17, 19, 23, 35, 43, & 51, Minesweeper W-101, Patrol Boat PB-103, Sub Chaser CH-43, Vichy French Cruiser Lamotte-Picquet and Survey ship Octant, plus addition ships totalling 44 and 140,000 tons of shipping.
1962 Operation Chopper: 1st US combat mission in Vietnam
 
Jan 13
1797 French Ship-of-the-Line Le Droits de L'Homme 74 battles with Ship-of-the-Line HMS Indefatigable 64 and Frigate Amazon in darkness before sun up & they run up on the coast of France with Amazon wrecked, as is L'Homme wich losses 900 of 1300 onboard.
1815 Battle of Ft. Peter, Ga.
1865 2nd Battle of Ft. Fisher begins
1940 Finnish Escort Ship Aura II is sunk when one of her depth charges explodes on its cradle off Market Island in the Sea of Aland
1942 1st use of ejection seat by test pilot of a HE-280 jet fighter
1943 U-503 sunk by USN PBY off Cape St. Roque, Brazil. U-224 sunk by HMCS Ville de Quebec west of Algiers
1944 U-231 sunk by an RAF Wellington n.e. of The Azores
1945 IJN sub I-365 sunk by Destroyer Escort USS Fleming between Ulithi and Eniwetok. USN Launch P-584, under operational control of the OSS, is destroyed by an explosion at Leghorn, Italy.
1951 Battle of Vihn Yen begins
 
Jan 14
1641 Dutch capture Malacca from the Portugese
1761 3rd Battle of Panapit
1822 Greeks capture Acrocorinth
1863 Battle of Bayou Teche: Gunboat CSS Cotton destroyed, US Navy Flag Officer Buchanon killed
1939 Nationalist capture Tarragona from Republicans
1941 Minesweeper HMS Fitzroy damaged by mine and beached, repaired and returned to service
1942 1st flight Sikorski XR-4 helicopter
1944 Destroyer Suzenami sunk by USS Albacore s.e. of Yap. Rescue Tug HMS Adherant founders in the N. Atlantic
1945 Minelayer Yurijima sunk by USS Cobia off Kota Bharu, Malaya. PT-73 wrecked and scuttled in Baliqueias Bay, Mindoro
1950 1st flight Mig-17
 
Jan 15
1815 Frigate USS President captured by 3 R.N. Frigates
1865 2nd Battle of Ft. Fisher ends
1937 2nd Battle of Corunna Road ends
1942 U-93 Sunk by destroyer HMS Hesperus. U-577 sunk by a Swordfish n.w. of Mursa Matruh
1945 Escort Carrier HMS Thane damaged by U-1172 in the Irish Sea, scrapped. Destroyers Hatakaze and Tsuga, and an LST Transport No. 14 sunk by T.F. 38 aircraft off Formosa.
1962 naval Battle of Etna Bay, New Guenea: Indonesian Patrol Boat Leopard sunk by Dutch Frigate Evertsen
 
Jan 16
1761 British capture Pondicherry from the French
1780 Battle of Cape St. Vincent
1809 Battle of Corunna
1865 At newly captured Ft. Fisher 2 drunk sailors walk into the Powder Magazine with torches, detonating 6 1/2 tons of powder.
1924 Cruiser USS Tacoma wrecked in a storm
1941 R.N. Trawler HMS Deseree sunk by mine in the Thames Estuary
1942 R.N. Trawler HMS Irvana bombed/sunk off Yarmouth
1944 U-544 sunk by aircraft from USS Guadalcanal n.w. of The Azores. R.N. LCT 1029 sunk by mine off Skegness.
1945 R.N. LST 415 torpedoed by an E Boat and beached, scrapped. Soviet Destroyer Dejatelnys sunk by U-956 east of Cape Terebirski. German Troopship Donau damaged by Limpet mines and beached at Drobak. KM Patrol Ship V-6408 Skagerak sunk by sub HMS Utsira. U-284 sunk by 4 US ships.
1991 Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins
 
Jan 17
1287 Aragon invades Minorca
1608 Battle of Ebenet
1781 Battle of Cowpens
1811 Battle of Calderon Bridge
1873 1st Battle of The Stronghold
1878 Battle of Philippopolis
1941 naval Battle of Ko Chang: Siamese Coast Defence Ship Dongkla sunk, Coast Defence Ship Sri Ayu beached(repaired and returned to service), Torpedo Boats Trad and Songhkla sunk by French. KM Ship Ingenieur Riebell sunk by R.N. off France.
1942 Destroyer HMS Gurkha sunk by U-133 off Sidi Barani. Destroyer HMS Matabele sunk by U-454 in the Arctic Sea. MTB-47 sunk by KM ships off Cap Griz Nez. Soviet naval Trawler TCS-68 has bow blown off by U-454. R.F.A. Tanker Nyholt sunk by U-87.
1943 R.N. LCTs 2234, 2239, 2267, and 2344 lost as deck cargo when SS Vestold sunk by U-268.
1944 Battle of Monte Cassino begins. KM ship NB-12 Skorpion rammed and sunk by German ship Oldenburg. Soviet sub L-23 sunk by KM sub chaser UJ-106 n.w. of Cape Torchakut, Crimea
1945 U-2515 and 2523 sunk, and 2530 resunk by RAF at Hamburg. British occupy Salonika. Soviets capture Warsaw.
 
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Jan 18
1911 1st Lt. Ely makes the 1st airplane landing on a ship, USS Pennsylvania
1913 Naval Battle of Lemnos
1942 R.N. Trawlers HMS Erin and Honjo sunk by Italian frogmen at Gibraltar
1944 Siege of Leningrad ends
1945 R.N. MTB 690 strikes a submerged wreck and sinks off Lowestoft.
1955 Battle of Yijongshon
1968 Operation Coronado X begins
 
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