This day in military history..

Sept 6
394 Battle of the Frigidus
1781 Battle of Ft. Griswold
1863 Confederates evacuate Chattanooga. Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner ending the Siege just before the Final Assault.
1937 Battle of El Mazuco begins
1939 South Africa declares War on Germany
1940 Corvette HMS Godetia sunk in a collision with SS Marsa off Northern Ireland
1941 R.N. Trawler HMS Brora wrecked in the Hebrides, and HMS Strathborve sunk by mine at the mouth of the Humber. Soviet Patrol Boats MO-404 and 407 sunk by German artillery off Estonia. KM Gunnery Training ship Bremse rammed/sunk by Cruiser HMS Nigeria in Hammerfjord. Italian anti-aircraft ship Carla sunk by Dutch sub O-24 off La Spezia.
1942 USN Patrol Boat YP-74 sunk in a collision in the Aleutians
1943 Destroyer HMS Puckeridge sunk by U-617 off Gibraltar
 
Sept 8
617 Battle of Huoyi
1380 Battle of Kulikovo
1514 Battle of Orsha
1565 Siege of Malta ends
1655 Sweden captures Warsaw
1755 Battle of Lake George. Battle of Kittanning
1781 Battle of Eutaw Springs
1793 Battle of Hondschoote ends
1796 Battle of Bassano
1863 2nd Battle of Sabine Pass
1923 Honda Point Disaster
1939 1st flight Vultee P-66. Dutch Minesweeper Willem Van Ewijck sunk by a mine off Terschelling
1941 Siege of Leningrad begins. Mine Destructor Vessel HMS Corfield sunk by mine off the Humber Lightship. Italian sub Maggiore Baracca rammed/sunk by Destroyer HMS Croome east of The Azores
1943 R.N. MTB 77 bombed/sunk off Vigo, Spain. R.N. LCT 624 lost in the Med. U-983 sunk in a collision with U-988 north of Loba, Poland.
 
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Sept 9
1141 Battle of Qatwan
1493 Battle of Krbava Field
1513 Battle of Flodden Field
1855 Siege of Sevastopol ends
1898 Mauser patents the design for the G-98
1922 Turks capture Smyrna
1939 Battle of Hel begins
1940 R.N. Trawler HMS Dervish sunk by mine off Humber Lightship
1942 Weather ship USCG Muskeget sunk with all hands by U-66 in the Atlantic. US Patrol Boat YP-346 lost in the Solomons
1943 Italian Battleship Roma sunk by German glide bomb. Cruiser Toranto scuttled at La Spezia. Tug USS Nauset bombed/sunk in Gulf of Toranto. Sub USS Grayling rammed/sunk by Hokuan Maru west of Luzon. US LCT 366 sank in a storm in the Gulf of Alaska. R.N. LCTs 572 and 626 lost in the Med. Indian Navy MTBs 284 and 285 lost as cargo when MV Larchbank sunk by I-27 in the Indian Ocean
1944 U-484 sunk by Corvette HMS Porchester Castle and Frigate HMS Helmsdale.
 
10 Sept
1547 Battle of Pinkie Cleugh
1561 4th Battle of Kawanakajima
1798 naval Battle of St. George's Caye ends
1813 Battle of Lake Erie
1861 Battle of Carnifex Ferry
1862 Sharpsburg Campaign: Battle of Harper's Ferry begins
1918 Red army captures Kazan
1939 Canada declares War on Germany. Sub HMS Oxley sunk by sub HMS Triton off Stavanger
1941 U-501 damaged by Corvette HMCS Chambly and scuttled in the Denmark Strait. R.N. Trawler HMS Christine Rose wrecked on Knap Rock, Argyll. KM Minesweeper M-1102 torpedoed/sunk by RAF in the North Sea
1942 R.N. MGB 335 sunk by KM surface vessels in the North Sea
1943Minelayer HMS Abdiel sunk by mine at Taranto. IJN Minesweeper W-16 bombed/sunk by B-24s south of Makassar.
1944 U-20 and 23 scuttled off Turkey in the Black Sea.
 
Sept 11
1297 Battle of Sterling Bridge
1390 Siege of Vilnius begins
1541 Battle of Santiago, Chile
1649 Siege of Drogheda ends
1697 Battle of Zenta
1709 Battle of Malplaquet
1714 Siege of Barcelona ends, began 25 July 1713
1758 Battle of St. Cast
1777 Battle of Brandywine Creek
1803 Battle of Delhi
1814 Battle of Lake Champlain
1861 Battle of Cheat Mountain
1914 Australia invades New Britain, German New Guinea: Battle of Bita Paka
1939 Canada declares War on Germany
1940 R.N. trawler HMS Breathwood sunk by mine in the English Channel
1941 U-207 sunk by HMS Leamington and Veteran near Greenland
1942 Corvette HMCS Charlottetown sunk by U-517 in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Destroyer Yayoi bombed/sunk by US and Australian aircraft in the Solomon Sea.
1943 USN LCT-71 sank in the Gulf of Alaska. Destroyer USS Rowan sunk by E Boat off Salerno. R.N. midget subs X5, X6, X7, X8, and X9 lost attacking Lutzow, Scharnhorst and Tirpits. KM Sub Chaser UJ-1217 sunk by Soviet sub M-7 in Sylteforden.
1944 U-19 scuttled off Turkey in the Black Sea. KM Minesweeper M-462 bombed/sunk off Skagen, Denmark.
2001 9/11 Terrorist attacks
2012 Benghazi Embassy attack
 
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13 Sept
533 Battle od Ad Decimum
1759 Battle of Quebec
1808 Battle of Jutas
1814 Battle of Baltimore begins(bombardment of Ft. McHenry)
1847 Battle of Chapultepec ends, Mexico City capured by US.
1882 Battle of Tel el Keber
1914 1st Battle of Aisne
1939 French Minelayer La Tourd d'Auvergne's mines explode destroying her and damaging beyond repair Aux. Minesweepers Charcot, Chellah, and Gosse at Casablanca. Minelayer Pluton's mines explode at Toulon destroying the ship
1940 KM Minesweeper M-1306 sunk by mine in the Skaggerak
1941 KM Flackship V-308 sunk by Soviet MTB off Porrala, Finland. Finnish Coast Defence Vessel Ilmarinen sunk by mine off Uto, Finland
1944 Destroyer-Minesweeper USS Perry sunk by mine off Palau. Destroyer USS Warrington founders off Vero Beach, Fla in the Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944. IJN Sub Chaser CH-55 bombed/sunk off Cebu. R.N. Motor Fishing Vessel HMS MFV 1032 sinks in tow in the western Med.
 
14 sept
1180 Battle of Ishibashiyama
1763 Battle of Devil's Hole
1808 Battle of Oravais
1812 french capture Moscow
1862 Battle of South Mountain
1939 Polish Minelayer Jaskolka bombed/sunk at Jastamia. U-39 sunk by 3 R.N. Destroyers off Rockall
1940 KM Trawler NM11 burned/sank at Kristiansund, Sub chaser UJ-173 wrecked at Hordangerfjord
1942 Battle of Edson's Ridge ends. Italian sub Alabastro bombed/sunk by a Sunderland off Algiers. U-589 sunk by Swordfish and Destroyer HMS Onslow. Destroyer HMCS Ottawa sunk by U-91 in the Atlantic. Off Tobruk Cruiser HMS Coventry, Destroyers Sikh and Zulu, Motor Launches ML 351 and 352, MTBs 308, 310, and 312 all sunk and MTB 314 run aground and abandond, put in KM service as RA-10
1943 Greel sub Katsonis sunk by Sub Chaser UJ-2010 off Skathos
1944 The Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944 sinks USCG Patrol Boats Bedloe and Jackson at Oregon Inlet, N.C, and the Vinyard Sound Lightship. R.N. Minesweeper MMS 278 wrecked off St. Malo. IJN Landing Ship No.5 bombed/sunk off Davao.
 
15 Sept.
994 Battle of Orontes
1762 Battle of Signal Hill
1812 Siege of Ft. Harrison ends
1816 HMS Whiting wrecked at Padstow
1862 Union troops at Harper's Ferry surrender
1894 Battle of Pyongyang
1916 1st use of Tanks as the Battle of Flers-Courcelette begins. French sub Foucault bombed/sunk by 2 Austro-Hungarian seaplanes in the Adriatic, 1st sub sunk by an airplane
1940 Sloop HMS Dundee sunk by U-48 west of Ireland
1942 Carrier USS Wasp, sunk, and Destroyer USS O'Brien fatally damaged by I-19 in the Coral Sea, O'Brien sinks on Oct. 19.
1943 RO-101 damaged by Destroyer USS Saufley and sunk by a PBY off San Cristobal Island. US LCT-241 bombed/sunk off Salerno
1944 Battle of Peleliu begins. US lands on Morotai. IJN Landing Ship No. 3 sunk by USS Guavina in Gulf of Davao
1950 Inchon Landing
 
Sept 16
1776 Battle of harlem Heights
1779 Siege of Savannah begins
1862 Battle of Sharpsburg begins
1941 KM Flackship V-5107 sunk in a collision with SS Carl Rehder off Norway
1942 U-457 sunk by Destroyer HMS Impulsive in the Barents Sea
1944 I-364 sunk by sub USS Sea Devil east of Tokyo
1975 1st flight Mig-31
 
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17 Sept
1176 Battle of Myriokephalon
1462 Battle of Swiecino
1775 Siege of Ft. St. Jean begins
1862 Battle of Sharpsburg ends
1894 Battle of the Yalu River
1908 USN Lt. Thomas Selfridge become the 1st airplane fatality while riding in a Wright Flyer piloted by Wright that crashed.
1916 Red Baron scores his 1st Kill.
1935 1st flight JU-87 Stuka
1939 Soviet Union invades Poland. Aircraft Carrier HMS Couragious sunk by U-29 south west of Ireland
1940 Italian Destroyers Borea and Aquilone sunk at Benghazi
1942 R.N. Trawler HMS Waterfly bombed/sunk off Dungeness. Italian Aux. Sub Chaser V-39 Giovanna shelled/sunk by sub HMS United off Misurata, Libya.
1941 Swedish Destroyers Goteborg, Klas Horn, and Klas Ugga sunk in port at Harsfjarden, possibly by Soviets. Klas Horn raised, repaired, returned to service.
1943 PT-136 runs aground off Malai Island in the Vitiaz Strait and is scuttled
1944 Operation Market-Garden begins. KM Torpedo Boat T-18 sunk by Soviet aircraft off Estonia. Escort Carrier Unyo sunk by sub USS Bard south east of Hong Kong
 
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Sept 18
324 Battle of Chrysopolis
1454 Battle of Konitz
1914 South Africa invades German South West Africa
1931 Mukden Incident begins
1943 KM Sub Chaser UJ-2104 scuttled after being damaged by 3 R.N. Destroyers in the Bay of Stampalia
1944 Auxiliary Gunboat/Minelayer Saigon Maru sunk by sub USS Flasher off Manila Bay.
1947 US Air Force established as an independent Service.
 
19 Sept
634 Siege of Damascus ends
1356 Battle of Poitiers
1777 1st Battle of Saratoga
1799 Battle of Bergen
1862 Battle of Iuka
1863 Battle of Chickamauga begins
1864 Battle of Opequan Creek
1870 Siege of Paris begins. Siege of Rome begins
1936 Spanish Republican sub B-6 sunk by Nationalist Destroyer Velasco off Cape Penas near Santander
1939 Battle of Kepa Oksywsku ends.
1940 KM Torpedo Boat T-3 bombed/sunk at Le Havre. Raised, repaired, returned to service 1943.
1941 Corvette HMCS Levis sunk by U-74 off Cape Farewell, Greenland. 1942 R.N. trawler HMS Alouette sunk by U-552 west of Cape Espichel, Portugal. R.N. Trawler HMS Pentland Firth sunk in collision with USN Trawler USS Chaffinch off Sandy Hook, N.J.
1943 Minesweeper HMS BYMS 2019 mined/beached off Crotone, Italy. U-341 sunk by RCAF B-24 south west of Ireland
1944 Continuation War ends. Battle of the Hurtgen Forest begins. USN LCI(G)-459 sank off Palau. U-867 bombed/sunk by RAF B-24 north west of Bergen. U-407 sunk by Destroyers HMS Troubridge and Terpsichore and Polish "Garland" south of Milos. U-565 bombed/damaged near Skaramanga, scuttled on the 24th at Salamis. Frigate Isoshima sunk by USS Shad off Honshu. PT-371 ran aground and was scuttled off Doitia Harbor, Halmahera
1949 1st flight Fairey Gannet
 
sept 20
1066 Battle of Fulford
1187 Siege of Jerusalem begins
1792 Battle of Valmy
1861 Siege of Lexington ends
1863 Battle of Chickamauga ends
1939 U-27 sunk by Destroyers HMS Fortune and Faulknor west of Lewis, Scotland
1941 R.N. Trawler HMS Marconi sunk off Harwich
1942 Minesweeper HMS Leda sunk by a U Boat south west of Spitzbergen. Destroyer HMS Somali damaged by U-703, sinking on the 24th.
1943 Frigate HMS Lagan damaged beyond repair by U-703, scrapped post War. Destroyer HMCS St. Croix sunk by U-305 in Bay of Biscay. U-338 sunk by Corvette HMCS Drumheller. U-346 lost during diving trials in the Bay of Danzig
1944 KM Minesweeper M-132 sunk by sub HMS Sceptre off Eigeroy Lighthouse.
 
21 sept
1217 Battle of St. Matthew's Day
1860 Battle of Palikao
1862 Battle of Blackford's Ford
1939 KM Sub Chaser UJ-171 wrecked in the Baltic
1941 Soviet Destroyer Frunza bombed/sunk east of Tendra Island, sub Stereguschy bombed/sunk at Peterhoff
1942 1st flight B-29. U-446 sunk by mine in Gulf of Danzig. Rescue Tug HMS St. Olaves wrecked off Duncansby Head, Scotland. Italian Aux. Minesweeper N 10 Aquila sunk by sub HMS Unruffled off Tunesia
1943 KM Minelayer Brandenburg sunk east of Capria, Italy. Corvette HMS Polyanthus sunk by U-952 in the Bay of Biscay, killing 84 of 85 hands, plus 80 survivors of HMCS St. Croix
1944 Destroyer Satsuki bombed/sunk at Manila, Frigate CD-5 bombed/sunk off the west coast of Luzon
1945 Last Beaufighter produced.
1953 N. Korean Mig defects to S. Korea
1960 1st flight CH-47
1964 1st flight XB-70
1981 Philippine Frigate Datu Kalantiaw wrecked on Calayan Island in a Typhoon
 
Sept 22
1236 battle of Saule
1586 Battle of Zutphen
1789 Battle of Rymnik
1857 Russian Ship-of-the-Line Lefort sinks with everyone on board lost, 756 crew and 70 passengers(familys of crewmembers)
1864 Battle of Cedar Creek
1866 Battle of Curupayty
1914 U-9 sinks Armored Cruisers HMS Aboukir, Hogue, and Cressy off Holland
1937 Battle of El Mazuco ends
1940 KM Minesweeper M-1604 sunk west of the Hook of Holland. Italian Torpedo Boat Palestro sunk by sub HMS Osiris west of Durazzo, Albania
1941 R.N. Motor Launch ML 144 sunk by mine in the Thames Estuary.
1943 Australian troops land at Finschafen. R.N. Trawler HMS Ocean Retriever sunk by mine in the English Channel. Frigate HMS Itchen sunk by U-666 in the Bay of Biscay killing the whole crew except 1, plus 1 survivor each from HMS Polyanthus and HMCS St. Croix, or 2 crew & 1 survivor of St. Croix.
1980 Iran-Iraq War begins
 
Sept 23
1338 Battle of Arnemuiden
1409 battle of Kherden
1459 Battle of Blore Heath
1568 naval Battle of San Juan de Ulua
1779 naval Battle of Flamborough Head
1803 Battle of assaye
1899 Battle of Olongapo ends
1940 Battle of Dakar begins: Vichy French Destroyer L Audacieux damaged by HMAS Australia, beached and Sub Persee sunk by Cruiser HMS Dragon & 2 R.N. Destroyers
1941 Soviet Battleship Murat bombed/sunk at Kronstadr in shallow water, used as stationary battery rest of the War. Sub M-74 also bombed/sunk there, raised but not repaired
1942 1st Battle of the Mtanikau begins
1943 KM Sloop SG-2 bombed/sunk at Nantes
1944 U-859 sunk by sub HMS Trenchant in the Strait of Malacca. Soviet Corvette Brilliant sunk by U-957 north of Kravkov Island in the Kara Sea. San Moreno declares War on Germany after a German Platoon captures its Army. Canadians capture Boulogne.
1950 Battle of Hill 282
 
Sept 24
1645 Battle of Rowton Heath
1863 Siege of Chattanooga begins
1877 Battle of Shiroyama
1914 Siege of Przemysl begins
1918 Ens. David Ingalls becomes the US Navy's 1st Ace, and the USN's only WWI Ace, while on exchange duty with the RAF.
1940 Battle of Dakar: Vichy French Sub Ajax bombed/sunk by aircraft from HMS Arc Royal. Ship-of-the-Line HMS Wellesby bombed/sunk in the River Thames, only one to be sunk by aircraft. R.N. Trawler HMS Loch Inver sunk by mine off Harwich. R.N. MTB 15 sunk by mine north east of North Foreland. KM Seaplane Tender Ostmark sunk by HMS Tuna in the Bay of Biscay.
1941 KM Minelayer Konigin Luise sunk by mine off Helsinki
1943 Motor Minesweeper HMS MMS 70 sunk by mine in the Gulf of Taranto
1944 Soviet Minesweeper T-120 sunk by U-739 in the Kara Sea. U-596 bombed/damaged by US B-24s at Salamis and scuttled. Flackship V-5502 sunk by Mosquitos in Hjeltefjorden. US Minesweeper YMS-19 sunk by mine off Palau. US Navy aircraft sink Seaplane Carrier Akitsushima, Sub Chaser CH-32, Torpedo Boat Hayabusa and Minelayer Yaeyama off Mindoro and Palawan.
 
Sept 26
715 Battle of Copiegne
1345 Battle of Warns
1371 Battle of Maritsa
1777 British capture Philidelphia,the Capitol of the U.S.
1917 Battle of Polygon Wood begins
1918 USCG Tampa sunk by UB-91 with all hands(115 crew and 16 passengers) in the Bristol Channel. Mause-Argonne Offensive begins
1942 Destroyer HMS Veteran sunk by U-404. I-33 sinks in a trimming accident while under repair at Truk, Raised 1942, repaired and sank again in June 1944 during diving trials.
1943 Destroyers HMS Intrepid and Greek Vasilissa Olga bombed/sunk off Leros. Torpedo Boat Kasasagi sunk by USS Bluefish in Flores Sea
1944 U-871 sunk by RAF B-17 north west of the Azores. Minelayer Aotaka sunk by sub USS Pargo west of northern Borneo in the South China Sea. RO-47 sunk by Destroyer Escort USS McCoy Reynolds north east of Palau.
1950 U.N. troops captures Seoul
 
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Sept 27
1331 Battle of Plowce
1529 Siege of Vienna begins
1669 Siege of Candia ends, began 1 May, 1648. Longest Siege in history
1864 Battle of Ft. Davidson
1941 1st Liberty Ship launched. Italian Torpedo Boat Albatros sunk by sub HMS Upright off Messina. Soviet Patrol Boat CKA-022 bombed sunk off Tendra, and Patrol Boat MO-196 sunk by artillery off Shlisselburg, both in the Black Sea. Anti-Aircraft/CAM ship HMS Springbank damaged by U-201 and scuttled south west of Ireland. KM Naval Trawler UJ-1201 sunk by sub HMS Trident off Rolvsoy.
1942 2nd Battle of the Matanikau ends. U-165 sunk by RAF Wellington in Bay of Biscay. KM Raider Stier and SS Stephen Hopkins sink each other in the South Atlantic. KM Patrol Boat Gazelle sank in a collision with Norwegian SS Themis off Lervik
1943 U-161 sunk by a PBM Mariner off Brazil. U-221 sunk by RAF Halifax south west of Ireland. Italian Torpedo Boat Enrico Cosenz scuttled off Lagosta Island after being bombed by German aircraft on the 25th.
1944 KM Sub Chaser UJ-1715 sunk by mine off Jaeren. Destroyer HMS Rockingham sunk by mine south east of Aberdeen. Frigate CD-10 sunk by sub USS Plaice north west of Amam o shima. USN LCT-823 ran aground and sank off Palau.
1964 1st flight TSR-2
1996 Taliban captures Kabul
 
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Sept 28
1538 naval Battle of Preveza
1781 Siege of Yorktown begins
1868 Battle of Alcolea
1918 5th Battle of Ypres
1939 Warsaw surrenders
1940 R.N. Trawler HMS Recoil sunk by mine off Bridport
1941 Soviet Patrol Boat MO-305 bombed/sunk. Italian sub Fisalia sunk by Corvette HMS Hyacinth off Jaffa, Palestine
1943 Sub USS Cisco bombed/sunk west of Negros in the Sulu Sea.
Minelayer Hoko bombed/sunk off Buka, Bouganville
1944 KM Minesweeper Dragoner bombed/sunk off Mandal. R.N. Motor Launch ML 216 sank off the east coast of England
 
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