This day in military history..

Feb 10
1258 Baghdad sacked/destroyed by Mongols
1814 Battle of Champaubert
1846 Battle of Sabraon
1862 naval Battle of Elizabeth City
1906 HMS Dreadnought launched
1936 Battle of Amba Arudan begins
1941 R.N. Trawler HMS Boy Allen sunk in collision in Thames Estuary
1942 Free French Corvette Alysse, damaged the day before by U-654, sinks in mid-Atlantic
1943 Battle of Krasny Bor begins
1944 Destroyer Minekaze sunk by USS Porgy off Formosa. U-545 scuttled after being attacked by an RAF, and a RCAF, Wellington. RCAF Wellington shot down
1945 KM Seaplane Tender Ammerland sunk in collision off Libau, Latvia
1964 Carrier HMAS Melbourne rams/sinks Destroyer HMAS Voyager
 
Feb 11
1941 Naval Whaler HMSAS Southern Floe sunk by mine off Tobruk
1942 Battle of Bukit Timah. USS Shark sunk by Yamakaze off Celebes. Corvette HMCS Spikenard sunk by U-136. Patrol Ship HMS Lipis sunk off Singapore
1943 I-18 sunk by Destroyer USS Fletcher south of San Cristobol Island
1944 U-283 sunk by RCAF Wellington s.w. of the Faroes. U-424 sunk by Sloops HMS Wild Goose and Woodpecker. PT 279 sunk in a collision with PT-282 off Bouganville.
1945 U-869 sunk by Destroyer Escorts Howard D. Crow and Koiner off of New Jersey. Minesweeper HMSAS Treen sunk by mine in the Med. USN LST-577 damaged by RO-50 off east coast of Mindanao, scuttled by Destroyer USS Isherwood. R.N. Motor Launch ML-183 sank after hitting a pier at Dieppe
 
Feb 12
1429 Battle of Rouvray
1593 Battle of Haengju
1817 Battle of Chacabuco
1935 Zepplin USS Macon crashes and sinks off California
1940 U-33 sunk by Minesweeper HMS Gleaner in the Firth of Clyde
1942 Destroyer HMS Maori bombed/sunk at Malta
1943 U-442 sunk by RAF Hudson west of Cape St. Vincent
1944 Sub I-27 sunk by Destroyer HMS Petard in the Maldives. Submarine Rescue Ship USS Macaw, grounded on a reef at Midway since 16 Jan. '44, slips off the reef and sinks.
 
Feb 13
1739 Battle of Karnal
1861 Battle of Gaeta ends
1862 Battle of Ft. Donelson begins
1941 R.N. Trawler HMS Rubens bonbed/sunk by FW-200 s.w. of Ireland
1942 R.N. Motor Minesweeper MMS 180 sunk in collision off the Tyne. Sub HMS Tempest damaged by Italian Torpedo Boat Circe, captured and sinks under tow n.e of Crotone, Italy. Patrol Ship HMS Trang beached on Peak Islend, Singapore. Anti-sub ship HMS Siang Wo bombed/beached on Bongka Island, N.E.I. Gunboat HMS Scorpion sunk by IJN ships in Bangka Strait. Patrol Ship HMS Jarak damaged by IJN ships, scuttled south of Sing Kap Island, N.E.I. R.N. ML-310 scuttled at Tjebia, N.E.I. R.N. Trawler HMS Chenteh bombed/sunk in the Rhio Strait
1943 U-620 sunk by RAF PBY n.w. of Lisbon. Anti-Aircraft ship HMS Pozarica, torpedoed by Italian planes Jan. 29,'43 and towed to Bougie, capsizes and sinks.
1944 R.N. Trawler Cap d' Antife sunk by E Boat in North Sea. USN LCT-220 founders off Anzio
1945 Siege of Budapest ends. RO-113 sunk by USS Batfish in the Luzon Channell, off Babayan Island. Corvette HMS Denbigh Castle damaged by U-992, beached and sunk off Bolchya Volokova Bay. Corvette HMS Bluebell sunk by U-711 in the Kola Inlet
1951 Battle of Chipyong-ni begins
1968 Operation Coronado XI begins
1971 S. Vietnam invades Laos
 
Feb 14
1778 USS Ranger recieves the 1st forgiegn salute to the US flag, from France
1779 Battle of Kettle Creek, Ga
1797 Battle of Cape St. Vincent
1813 USS Essex becomes the 1st US Navy ship to sail in the Pacific
1814 USS Constitution captures HMS Pictou
1831 Battle of Debre Abbay
1863 USS Queen of the West captured after running aground under the guns of Ft. Taylor on the Red River
1879 Chile captures Antofagasta
1900 British invade the Orange Free State
1912 US Navy commisions 1st diesel sub
1919 Soviet-Polish War begins
1941 R.N. MTB 41 sunk by mine in North Sea
1942 Battle of Pasir Panjang ends. Gunboats HMS Dragonfly and Grasshopper sunk at Singapore. Aux. Patrol Ship HMS Huatong sunk at Palambang. Minelayer HMS Kung Wo sunk off Pompong Island. Patrol ship HMS Li Wo sunk in Java Sea by IJN warships. HMS Shukwang and Aux anti-sub ship HMS Tren Kuang bombed at Pamping Island and scuttled. Sarawak Royal Yacht Vyner Brooke bombed/sunk in Bangka Strait. Rescue Tub HMS St. Just scuttled at Palembang. Rescue Tug HMS St. Breock bombed/sunk off Sumatra. Tug HMS Pengawal bombed/sunk in Durian Strait. CAM ship Empire Spring sunk by U-576 in the Atlantic
1944 Salvage ship HMS Salviking sunk by U-168 s.w. of Ceylon. U-738 sunk in a collision in the Baltic. KM sub UIT-23 sunk by sub HMS Tally-Ho off the Strait of Malacca.
1945 U-989 sunk by 4 R.N. Frigates off the Faroes. R.N. MTBs 255, 776, 789, 791, 798, and Royal Canadian Navy MTBs 459, 461, 462, and 465 destroyed in an explosion and fire at a base in Ostend, Belgium. USN Minesweeper YMS-48 damaged by shore batteries north of Corrigidor, scuttled by Destroyer USS Fletcher. IJN Coast Defence Frigate CD-9 sunk by USS Gato off Cheju Island, Korea in the Yellow Sea.
1943 Rostov-on-Don recaptured by Red Army
1950 Battle of Tranquon begins
 
Feb 15
1856 USS Supply sails from Syria bound for Texas with 21 Camels for the US Army's expierimental Camel Corps.
1898 USS Maine explodes in Havana Harbor
1940 Tug USS Wicomico sunk in collision with Destroyer USS Goff in Hampton Roads.
1942 Battle of Singapore ends. R.N. Lotor Launch ML-169 burns at Gibraltar. R.N. ML-433 and Tug HMS Yin Ping sunk by IJN warships in Bangka Strait. Aux. Patrol ships HMS Jerantat and Klias scuttled at Palembang. R.N. Trawler HMS Mata Hari sunk by artillery at Bangka Island. Armed Yacht HMS Silvia sunk at Singapore. Dutch Destroyer Van Ghent runs aground and is scuttled on Bamidjo Reef between Bangko and Billian Islands. Dutch Minelayer Pro Patria scuttled at Palembang
1943 U-52 sunk by RAF B-24
1944 USN LCT-35 is burned out and sunk when Liberty ship Elihu Yale is sunk off Anzio by a German Glide Bomb while tied up along side
1945 U-1053 lost in a diving trial in Byfjorden.
1989 Soviets finish evacuating troops from Afghanistan
 
Feb 16
1646 Battle of Torrington
1804 Lt. Stephen Decatur leads a party into Tripoli Harbor and burns the captured Frigate USS Philidelphia
1862 Battle of Ft. Donalson ends
1940 Altmark Incident: British capture German Tanker Altmark in neutral Norwegian waters, freeing British POWs.
1941 R.N. Trawler HMS Ormonde bombed/sunk off Peterhead. R.N. Trawler HMS Southsea struck a mine off the Tyne and beached for use as a breakwater. Cruiser HMS Neptune, docked for repairs, is bombed and damaged again at Chatham.
1942 R.N. Trawler HMS Elizebeth sunk by artillery in the Bangka Strait. R.N. Trawler HMS Fuh Wa beached on Bangka Island
1943 USS Amberjack sunk by Torpedo Boat Hidori and Sub Chaser SC-18 off Rabaul
1944 R.N. LST-418 sunk by U-230 n.w. of Ponza, Italy. RO-40 sunk by Destroyer USS Phelps and Minesweeper USS Sage n.w. of Kwajelein
1945 USN LCI(L)-7, 26, and 49 sunk by Demolition Assault Boats off Mariveles. U-309 sunk by Frigate HMCS Saint John off Wick. IJN Minelayer Naryu sunk by sub USS Sennet s.e. of Honshu
1967 Operation River Raider begins
2006 Last MASH Unit deactivated
 
Feb 17
1500 Battle of Hemmingstedt
1814 Battle of Mormans
1864 CS Army Sub H L. Hunley sinks USS Housatonic. 1st sinking of a ship by a sub. Hunley founders on the way back to port with all hands lost
1942 Patrol ship HMS Tandjong Pinang sunk with all hands south of Palo Ubar. Dutch Destroyer Van Ness sunk with all hands south of Bangka Island. KM Guard Ship NS-21 sunk off Norway. Coastal Minesweeper USS Detector sunk in collision off Boston. Coastal Minesweeper USS Paramount run aground off Cape Hatteras.
1943 U-69 rammed/sunk by Destroyer HMS Fame. U-201 sunk by Destroyer HMS Viscount east of Newfoundland. U-205 sunk by Destroyer HMS Paladin off Apollonia
1944 Battle of Eniwetok begins. Carrier Raid on Truk: Operation Hailstone: Destroyer Maikaze sunk by Cruisers USS Minneapolis and New Orleans, Aircraft Ferry Fujikawa Maru bombed/sunk, Sub Tender Rio De Janeiro Maru bombed/sunk, Armed Merchant Cruiser Kiyosumi Maru bombed/torpedoed/sunk, Destroyer Tachikaze bombed/sunk, Light Cruiser Naka bombed/sunk, Light Cruiser Katori sunk by USS Iowa, Armed Merchant Cruiser Akagi Maru Bombed/scuttled, Naval Trawler Shanan Maru No. 15 sunk by USS New Jersey. IJN LST No.114 sunk by B-24s south of Formosa. Soviet Sub ShCh-216 sunk by KM Sub Chasers UJ-103 and 106 west of Sevastopol.
1945 USN LCI(G)-474 sunk by shore batteries off Iwo Jima. Corvette HMS Bluebell sunk by U-711 off Murmansk. Sloop HMS Lark damaged by U-968 and beached in the Kola Inlet. U-425 sunk by HMS Lark and Corvette HMS Alnwich Castle off Murmansk. U-1273 sunk by mine in Oslofjord. KM Minesweeper M-421 sunk by mine off Kolberg
1979 Sino-Vietnamese War begins
 
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Feb 18
1268 Battle of Rekavor
1797 British invade Trinidad
1814 Battle of Montereau
1900 Battle of Paardeberg begins
1940 Destroyer HMS Daring sunk by U-23 off Duncansby Head.
1942 R.N. Trawler HMS Botanic bombed/sunk off Grimsby. R.N. Trawler HMS Warland bombed/sunk off Spurn Point. Patrol Ship HMS Malacca scuttled in the Tjemake River, Sumatra. Dutch Sub K VII bombed/sunk while laying submerged on the bottom of Surabaya Harbor. Dutch Gunnery Traing ship Soerabaja bombed/sunk at Sorabaya. Stores Ship USS Pollox and Destroyer USS Truxton wrecked in a storm in Placentia Bay, Newfouldland, Destroyer USS Wilkes grouned but was refloated. Free French Sun Surcouf sunk in a collision north of Cristobal, Panama.
1944 Light Cruiser HMS Penelope sunk by U-410 off Naples. Armed Yacht HMS Breda sunk in a collision near Campbeltown, Scotland. Truk: Destroyer Oite torpedoed/sunk by USN aircraft, Destroyer Fumizuki sinks from previous days torpedoing, Sub Tender Heian Maru sinks from previous days damage. Sub Chaser CH-29 sunk at or near Truk. U-7 sank in a diving accident west of Pillau. U-406 sunk by Frigate HMS Spey s.w. of Ireland.
1945 Sperrbrecher 139 sunk by mine off Lindesnes, Norway. U-2344 sunk in a collision with U-2336 off Rostock
1946 Indian Navy Mutiny begins
 
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Feb 19
197 Battle of Lugdunum
1649 2nd Battle of Guararapes
1865 Battle of Wilmington begins
1915 Battle of the Dardenelles brgins
1942 Darwin Air Raid: Aux. Patrol Boat HMAS Mavie, Destroyer USS Peary, USAT Meigs, bombed/sunk. Battle of Badung Strait: Dutch Destroyer Peit Hein sunk.
1943 Battle of Kasserine Pass begins. U-268 sunk by RAF Wellington in Bay of Biscay. U-562 sunk by Escort Destroyer HMS Hursley, Destroyer HMS Isis and an RAF Wellington N.E. of Benghazi. KM Patrol Ship V-408 sunk by USS Blackfin off Spain
1944 U-264 sunk by Sloops HMS Woodpecker and Starling. U-386 sunk by Frigate HMS Spey s.w. of Ireland. IJN Sub Chasers CH-22 and 40 bombed/sunk by B-25s and A-20s south of Kavieng.
1945 Battle of Iwo Jima begins
 
Feb 20
1339 Battle of Parabiago
1653 naval Battle of Portland
1813 Battle of Salta
1815 USS Contitution captures HMS Cyane and HMS Levant
1864 Battle of Olustee, Fl.
1917 An Ammo ship blows up at Archangel killing 1,500
1940 R.N. Trawler HMS Fifeshire mombed/sunk in the North Sea
1941 R.N. Trawler HMS Ouse sunk by mine off Tobruk. R.N. Trawler HMS Marjory M. Hastie struck a mine off the mouth of the Tyne and beached off Whitburn. Refloated, repaired and returned to service.
1942 Japan invades Timor
1943 USN Minesweeper YMS-133 founders in a storm at Coos Bay, Oregon. Destroyer Oshio sunk by USS Albacore n.w. of Manus
1944 R.N. LST-305 sunk by U-230 south of Naples. Destroyer HMS Warwick sunk by U-413 in the Bristol Channel off Trevose Head. USN LST-348 sunk by U-410 off Anzio. USN LCT-340 foundered off Sicily.
1945 Destroyer Nokaze sunk by Sub USS Pargo off Nha Trang, French Indochina. KM Torpedo Boat TA-48 bombed/sunk in the Med. U-1276 sunk by Sloop HMS Amethyst off Dungarvan. Corvette HMS Vervain sunk by U-1276 off Dungarvan.
1959 AVRO Canada Arrow fighter cancelled
 
Feb 21
1543 Battle of Wayna Daga
1692 Naval action in the West Indies, 7 R.N. ships fight 18 French ships
1862 Battle of Valverde, New Mexico Territory
1916 Battle of Verdun begins
1919 1st flight Thomas Morse MB-3 Fighter, 1st US designed Fighter
1941 R.N. Trawler HMS Lincoln City bombed/sunk at Torshaun, Faroe Islands
1943 U-623 sunk by RAF B-24 s.w. of Ireland
1945 1st flight Hawker Sea Fury. Escort Carrier USS Bismarck Sea sunk by Kamakazes off Iwo Jima
 
Feb 22
1744 naval Battle of Toulon
1797 Battle of Fishguard
1799 HMS Espoir captures Spanish "Africa" off Marbella
1815 Battle of Ft. Peter, Ga.
1865 Battle of Wilmington ends
1909 Great White Fleet finishes its around the World voyage
1940 KM Destroyer Leberecht Maass bombed/sunk by HE-111, Destroyer Max Schultz was sunk with all hands by a mine while trying to assist Maass on the Dogger Bank.
1943 Corvette HMCS Weyburn sunk by mine east of Gibraltar. U-225 sunk by Corvette HMS Dianthus s.w. of Ireland. U-606 sunk by Polish Destroyer Burza and USCG Cutter Campbell in mid-Atlantic
1944 PT-200 sunk in a collision off Newport, R.I.. Minelayer Natsushima sunk by Destroyers USS Charles Ausborne, Dyson and Stanly off Tingwon, New Ireland.
1945 U-300 sunk by Minesweepers HMS Recruit and Pincher and Armed Yacht HMS Evadne west of Cadiz. Corvette HMCS Trentonian sunk by U-1004 near Falmouth. R.N. LST-364 sunk by KM Midget Sub off Ramsgate
1958 Indonesia bombs Badung, Sumatra and Menado, Celebes.
 
Feb 23
1554 Battle of Marihuenu
1814 HMS Epervier captures American Privateer "Alfred"
1836 Battle of The Alamo begins
1847 Battle of Buena Vista
1900 Cuba leases Gitmo to the US. Battle of Hart's Hill
1904 US acquires the Panama Canal Zone
1940 U-53 sunk by Destroyer HMS Gurkha west of the Orkney Islands. R.N. Trawler HMS Benvolio sunk by mine off the mouth of the Humber
1942 Sub HMS P-38 sunk by Italian Torpedo Boat Circe east of Tripoli
1943 U-443 sunk by Destroyer Escort HMS Bicester, Lamberton, and Wheatland n.w. of Algiers. U-522 sunk by Sloop HMS Totland west of Madeira
1945 Battle of Manila ends. Photo of flag raising on Iwo Jima taken. IJN Sub Chaser CH-35 bombed/sunk off Cape Padaran, French Indochina. Escort ship Yaku sunk by USS Hammerhead n.e. of Nha Trang, French Indochina
2008 B-2 crashes on Guam
 
Feb 24
1303 Battle of Roslin
1525 Battle of Pavia
1809 naval Battle of Les Sables-d'Olonne
1813 USS Hornet sinks HMS Peacock in 11 minutes off the mouth of the Demerara River, Guiana
1862 Union troops occupy Nashville and Harper's Ferry
1863 USS Indianola is rammed by CSS Webb, beached and abandond to the Confederates.
1940 U-63 sunk by 4 R.N. ships south of the Shetlands
1941 Monitor HMS Terror sinks off Derna after being bombed and hitting 2 mines on the 22nd & bombed again on the 23rd. Destroyer HMS Dainty bombed/sunk by JU-88s off Tobruk
1942 Turkish Navy Auxiliary Cancay sunk by Soviet sub ShCh-213 off Kara Burna
1943 Norwegian Sub Uredd sunk by mine off Fugloyvaer. Sub HMS Vandal sinks north of Arran. R.N. MTB-262 bombed/sunk off Cape Serrat, Tunisia. U-649 sunk in a collision with U-232 in the Baltic.
1944 U-257 sunk by Frigate HMS Wakesiu in the Mid-Atlantic. U-761 detected by a US Navy PBY equipped with MAD gear. Bombed/damaged by the PBY, a PV-1 Ventura and a RAF PBY. Scuttled when intercepted byDestroyers HMS Anthony and Wishart. 1st sub sunk as a result of use of MAD.
1945 R.N. Whaler HMS Ellesmere sunk with all hands by U-1203 in the English Channel. U-713 sunk by Destroyer HMS Keppel in the Norwegian Sea north of Narvik. U-927 sunk by an RAF Warwick s.e. of Falmouth. U-1203 sunk by Frigates HMS Duckworth and Rowley s.e. of the Isles of Scilly. U-3007 bombed/sunk near Bremen
 
Feb 25
493 Siege of Revenna ends
1336 Battle of Pilenai
1831 Battle of Olszynka Grochowska. Battle of Bialolenka ends
1836 Colt's revolver patented
1921 Red Army captures Tbilisi
1933 USS Ranger launched, USN's 1st purpose built Carrier
1935 1st flight He-111
1941 Italian Cruiser Armando Diaz sunk by sub HMS Upright odd Kerkennah. Destroyer HMS Exmoor sunk by E Boat S-30 off Lowestoft
1944 Destroyer HMCS Columbia runs aground at St. John's, Newfoundland, made water tight and used as a storage hulk. destroyer HMS Mahratta sunk by U-990 off Nordkapp, Norway. U-601 sunk by RAF PBY off Nordkapp. USN LCT-26 foundered off Anzio in a storm.
1945 Turkey declares War on Germany. Escort Shonan sunk by Sub USS Hoe south of Yulin, Hainan
 
Feb 26
1266 Battle of Benevento
1804 Siege of Fort Amsterdam, Willemstad ends
1813 British capture the island of Ponza
1815 Amercan Privateer "Chaseur" captures HMS St. Lawrence off Havana. Napoleon leaves Elba with 1200 troops to recapture France
1852 Frigate HMS Birkenhead sinks off South Africa. The standard of "women and children first" is set by this sinking. British troops on board remain behind because of inadequate number of lifeboats.
1863 The US Navy floats a dummy warship past Vicksburg, causing the Confederates to burn the captured and aground USS Indianola.
1916 French Troopship Provence II is sunk by U-35 south of Cape Matapan. Apx 1,000 killed
1943 R.N. Whaler HMS Harstad sunk by E Boat in Lyme Bay
1944 U-91 sunk by 3 R.N. Frigates in Mid-Atlantic. Net Layer USS Ailanthus wrecked off Alaska. USN LCT-36 wrecked off Naples. USN LST-349 ran aground and sank off Isola di Ponza. USN PT-251 sunk by shore batteries after running aground in Empress Augusta Bay, Bouganville.
1945 I-368 sunk by a Grumman Avenger, and I-370 sunk by Destroyer Escort USS Finnigan, both near Iwo Jima
 
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Feg 27
1776 Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge
1900 Battle of Paardeberg ends
1941 Italian Armed Merchant Cruiser Ramb 1 sunk by Cruiser HMNZS Leander east of the Maldives. R.N. Trawler HMS Remillo sunk by mine in the Humber
1943 Seapalne Tender USS Langley bombed/scuttled south of Java.
Battle of the Java Sea: Dutch Cruisers Java and De Ruyter, Destroyers Kortenaer, HMS Electra and HMS Jupiter sunk by IJN warships
1943 Sub HMS Tigris sunk by KM Naval Trawler UJ-2210 in the Med. Dutch Sub Tender Colombia sunk by U-516 off Simonstown. R.N. LCT-381 and R.N. Trawler HMS Hailsham sunk by E Boats in Lyme Bay
1944 USS Greyback sunk by Japanese airplane in the East China Sea. Sloop HMS Woodpecker sinks south-east of Ireland after being torpedoed by U-256 on the 20th. R.N. Motor Fishing Vessel MFV 70 sinks after striking a submerged wreck off Castellorizo, Italy.
1945 U-327 sunk by Frigates HMS Laubon and Loch Fada. U-1018 sunk by HMS Loch Fada
 
Feb 28
1710 Battle of Helsingborg
1844 An expieremental 12" wrought iron gun on USS Princeton explodes killing the Sec. of the Navy and the Sec. of State, the President is below decks and is unharmed
1864 The Kilpatrick Raid on Richmond begins
1893 USS Indiana, the US Navy's 1st Battleship, is launched
1900 Siege of Ladysmith ends
1937 1st flight Japanese KI-30 light bomber
1941 R.N. Motor Anti-Sub Boat MASB 2 strikes a mine in the Suez Canal and is beached
1942 Destroyer USS Jacob Jones is sunk by U-257 off Cape May, N.J. Battle of Sunda Strait begins
1943 Soviet PT Boats RPT-1 and 3 lost as deck cargo when SS Wade Hampton is sunk by U-405. R.N. MTB 79 sunk by KM warships off the Hook of Holland
1945 USAT Soreldoc sunk by U-775 in St. George's Channel
1991 Gulf War 1 ends
1998 1st flight RQ-4 Global Hawk
 
Mar 1
1476 Battle of Toro
1870 Battle of Cerro Cora
1896 Battle of Adwa
1901 Australian Army Est.
1941 Bulgaria joins the Axis. R.N. Trawler HMS St. Donats sunk in a collision with Destroyer HMS Cotswald. R.N. Trawler HMS Plowbow damaged by mine, or bombed, and beached at Malta
1942 Destroyer USS Edsall bombed and then sunk by Battleships Hiei and Kirishima and 2 Cruisers near Christmas Island. Tanker USS Pecos bombed/sunk near Christmas Island. 2nd Battle of the Java Sea:Cruiser HMS Exeter and Destroyers HMS Encounter and USS Pope sunk. Battle of Sunda Strait: Cruisers USS Houston and HMAS Perth, and Dutch Destroyer Evertson sunk, IJN Minesweeper W-2 and Landing Craft Depot Ship Shinshu Maru torpedoed/sunk by Cruiser Mogami when she missed the Allied Cruisers. U-656 sunk by US Navy Hudson off Cape Race, Newfouldland.
1944 Frigate HMS Gould sunk by U-358, who in turn is sunk by 4 other R.N. Frigates off Portugal. U-603 sunk by Destroyer Escort USS Bronstein s.w. of Ireland. U-709 sunk north of The Azores by 3 USN Destroyer Escorts.
1945 Torpedo Boat Manazuru sunk by US Navy aircraft off Naha, Okinawa. Minelayer Tsubame sunk by US Navy aircraft off Miyako Jima.
2002 Operation Anaconda begins
 
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