This day in military history..

Mar 7
1799 Siege of Jaffa ends
1814 Battle of Craonne
1902 Battle of Tweebosch
1940 French Aux. Minesweeper Marie Yette sunk in a collision with SS Spramex in the Geronde River
1941 R.N. MTB 28 burns at Portsmouth. U-70 rammed by SS Mijdrecht and sunk by Corvettes HMS Cornellia and Arbutus
1942 Dutch Minelayer Golden Leeuw scuttled at Sorabaya
1944 PT-337 sunk by shore batteries in Hansa Bay, New Guinea
1945 U-1302 sunk by 3 RCN frigates in St. George's Channel.
1951 4th Battle of Seoul begins
1968 Battle of Saigon ends
 
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8 Mar
1722 Battle of Gulnabad
1801 2nd Battle of Abukir
1862 Battle of Pea Ridge ends. naval Battle of Hampton Roads begins
1865 Battle of Kinston begins
1916 Battle of Dujaila
1937 Battle of Guadalajara begins
1941 Minesweeper HMS Dart sunk by mine in the Suez Canal
1942 Battle of Java ends. Dutch Minelayer Krakatou and Minesweeper Eland Dubois scuttled, and Minesweeper Jan Van Amsted sunk by IJN Destroyer, all in the Madura Strait. Japanese capture Rangoon. Ocean Boarding Vessel HMS Northern Princess sunk by U-587 on the Grand Banks
1943 R.N. LCT 2480 lost as cargo when SS Fort Lamy sunk by U-527. U-156 sunk by USN PBY east of Barbados
1945 Frigate CD-69 damaged by a B-24 off Hainan, sinks on the 16th 8 Miles from Hong Kong
 
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March 9
1280 Battle of Klokotnitsa
1811 Battle of Tacuari
1847 Battle of Veracruz begins
1862 naval Battle of Hampton Roads ends
1865 Battle of Monroe's Crossroads begins
1916 Columbus, New Mexico Raid.
1941 Trawler HMS Gulfoss sunk by mine off Hastings. Trawler HMS Hatsuse damaged by mine/beached at Cawsund Point, refloated, repaired, returned to service.
1942 Trawler HMS Notts County sunk with all hands by U-701 off Iceland. Whaler HMS Shera, officially transferred to the Soviet Navy in Feb. ices up, capsizes and sinks in the Barents Sea while being delivered to the Soviets by the Royal Navy.
1943 R.N. LCT 2341 lost as cargo when SS Bonneville was sunk.
1944 MTB 266 damaged by shelling in the Med, sinks at Alexandria April 17. Destroyer Escort USS Leopold damaged by U-255 south of Iceland, sinks next day.
1945 Japanese take over French Indochina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_in_French_Indochina Vichy French Gunboat Francis Garnier scuttled, or sunk by the Japanese, in the Mekong River at Kratie, French Indochina (Cambodia). Granville Raid: KM Minesweeper M-42 ran aground/scuttled, US Patrol Boat PC-564 heavily damaged by KM Artillery Lighters and beached. refloated, repaired, returned to service.
 
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Mar 10
241 B.C. Battle of the Aegates Islands
1814 Battle of Laon ends
1830 Netherlands East India Army KNIL Est
1831 French Foreign Legion Est.
1865 Battle of Kinston ends. Battle of Monroe's Crossroads ends
1936 1st flight Fairey Battle
1942 Armed Merchant Cruiser Kongo Maru and aux Minelayer Tenyo Maru bombed/sunk by USN aircraft in Huon Bay, New Guinea
1943 R.N. MGB 622 sunk by KM ships off Terrschelling. U-633 rammed/sunk by SS Scorton
1944 US Sub Chaser SC-700 burns at Vella Lavella. Corvette HMS Asphode sunk by U-575 north west of Cape Finesterre. U-343 sunk by HMS Mull north of Bizerte. U-450 sunk by 3 R.N. and 1 Us destroyer escorts. U-625 sunk by RCAF Sunderland west of Ireland. U-845 sunk by 2 RCN destroyers and 2 Corvettes south west of Ireland.
1945 Vichy French gunboat Marne and Sloop Admiral Charner scuttled in French Indochina(Vietnam). Norwegian Navy Trawler Nordhav II sunk by U-714 off Dundee. U-681 sunk by USN PB4Y west of the Isles of Scilly. U-275 sunk by mine off Beachy Head.
 
Mar 13
624 Battle of Badr
1591 Battle of tondibi
1884 Siege of Khartoum begins
1915 Battle of Neuve Chapelle ends
1940 Winter War ends. U-44 sunk by mine off The Netherlands
1942 PT-32 scuttled after breaking down in the Philippines
1943 U-163 sunk by Corvette HMCS Prescott north west of Cape Finisterre
1944 Cruiser Tatsuta sunk by Sub USS Sand Lance south of Hachijo Jima. U-575 sunk by US & British ships and aircraft.
1945 Frigate CD-66 bombed/sunk east of Swatow, China
1954 Battle of Dien Bien Phu begins
 
14 Mar
1590 Battle of Ivry
1757 Adm. Sir John Bing executed
1862 Battle of New Berne
1863 At night a US Navy squadron attempts to run the batteries at Port Hudson, 2 make it and USS Mississippi run aground in front of the guns.
1864 Battle of Ft. De Russy
1915 Cruiser SMS Dresden is scuttled off Chile to prevent capture.
1939 1st flight Martin Maryland
1941 Trawler HMS Jeannie Leask damaged by mine and beached in Brightlingsea harbor. refloated, repaired, returned to service
1942 Italian sub Ammiraglio Enrico Millo sunk by sub HMS Ultimatum off Calabria. U-133 sunk by mine in Gulf of Salamis
1943 Trawler HMS Moravia sunk by mine in the North Sea. Sub HMS Thunderbolt sunk by Italian Corvette Cicogna off Sicily. Norwegian MTB 631 wrecked off Floro. salvaged by the Germans.
1945 KM Torpedo Boats T-3 and 5 sunk by mines off Hela. U-714 sunk by Frigate HMSAS Natal in the Firth of Forth. U-1021 sunk by mine off Newquay.
1978 Operation Litani begins
1988 China and Vietnam both move to occupy Johnson and Landsdown Reefs in the South China Sea, 2 Vietnamese transports sunk.
 
Mar 15
933 Battle of Riade
1311 Battle of Ciphissus
1781 Battle of Guilford Courthouse
1863 Port Hudson: USS Mississippi abandoned and set on fire, drifts off the bank, floats down river through the US fleet and blows up
1916 US troops enter Mexico in pursuit of Pancho Villa after the Columbus, N.M. raid
1935 1st flight DO-18 flying boat.
1940 Trawler HMS Peridot sunk by mine off Dover
1941 Tug HMS Chabool leaves Aden and vanishes.
1942 Destroyer HMS Vortigern sunk by E Boat S-104 off Cromer. USCG Lighthouse Tender Acacia shelled/sunk by U-161 south of Haiti. U-503 bombed/sunk by USN Hudson south east of Newfoundland
1943 3rd Battle of Kharkov ends
1944 U-653 sunk by Sloops HMS Starling and Wild Goose and Swordfish from HMS Vindex. USS Lancetfish sinks at Boston Navy Yard while under construction, raised and placed in reserve. Scrapped in the 50s without ever putting out to sea.
1978 Ogaden War ends
2011 Syrian Civil War begins
 
Mar 16
1322 Battle of Boroughbridge
1527 Battle of Kanvaha
1782 Battle of Roatan
1812 Siege of Badajoz begins
1818 2nd Battle of Cancha Ranch
1865 Battle of Averasborough
1940 Trawler HMS Maida sunk by mine off Margate
1941 Trawler HMS Lady Lillian bombed/sunk west of Erris Head, Ireland
1943 Trawler Campobello was scuttled after developing uncontrollable leaks in heavy swells in the Atlantic. Rescue Tug HMS Horsa wrecked Osfles Rock, Iceland
1944 R.N. MTB 417 shelled/sunk by KM ship off Calais. Destroyer Shirakumo sunk by sub USS Tautog east of Hokaido. U-392 sunk by Frigate HMS Affleck and destroyer HMS Vanoc and 3 USN PBy in the Straits of Gibraltar.
1945 Battle of Iwo Jima ends. Frigate CD-69 sinks off Hong Kong from bomb damage inflicted on the 8th. U-397 sunk by mine off Hela. KM Patrol Ship V-1105 bombed/sunk in the Skagerrack
1968 My Lai Massacre.
1979 Sino-Vietnamese war ends
 
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17 Mar
45 B.C. Battle of Munda
1452 Battle of Las Alporchones
1560 Siege of Ft. Coligny ends
1677 Siege of Valenciennes ends
1776 Siege of Boston ends
1863 Battle of Kellyville
1936 1st flight Armstrong-Whitworth Whitley
1939 Battle of Nanchang begins
1941 Armed Yacht HMS Mollusc bombed/sunk off Blyth. U-99 sunk by Destroyer HMS Walker, and U-100 sunk by Destroyer HMS Vanoc, both north west of the Hebrides
1942 Rescue Tug HMS Adept wrecked in the Hebrides. Italian sub Guglielmotti sunk by sub HMS Unbeaten off Calabria
1943 PT-67 and 119 burn in a refueling accident, New Guinea.
1944 PT-283 sunk by Destroyer USS Guest off Bouganville. U-28 sank in a diving accident at Neustadt. U-801 sunk by Destroyer USS Corry, Destroyer Escort USS Bronstein and Avengers from USS Block Island off the Cape Verdes. U-1013 sunk in a collision with U-286 east of Rugen
1945 Minesweeper HMS Guysborough sunk by U-868 in the Bay of Biscay
1947 1st flight B-45
1988 Battle of Afabet begins
 
18 Mar
1241 Battle of Chmielnik
1865 Battle of Bentonville begins
1915 Battle of the Dardanelles: During an attempt to force the Dardenelles French Battleship Bouvet and HMS Ocean and Irresistable are sunk by mines
1916 Battle of Lake Naroch begins
1941 Italian Torpedo Boat Aldebaran bombed/sunk at Vlore, Albania. Armed Boarding Vessel HMS Rosaura sunk by mine off Tobruk.
1942 Italian sub Tricheco sunk by sub HMS Upholder off Brindisi
1944 Aux. Sub Chaser CHa-10 sunk by Destroyer USS Daly near WeWak
1945 U-866 sunk by 4 USN Destroyer Escorts.
 
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Mar 19
1279 Battle of Yamen
1943 U-5 lost in a diving accident west of Pillau. U-384 sunk by RAF B-17
1944 Aux. sub chasers CHa-47 and 49 bombed/sunk by B-25s north of Wewak. U-1059 sunk by Avengers from USS Block Island south west of the Cape Verdes
1945 River gunboat Suma sunk by mine in the Yangtze.
 
Mar 20
1922 USS Langley, 1st US Aircraft Carrier, is commissioned.
1932 1st flight P-26
1940 KM Sperrbrecher 12 bombed/sunk off Ameland, Netherlands
1941 Aux. Anti-Aircraft ship HMS Helvellyn bombed/sunk at London. Trawler HMS Soizic lost. Trawler HMS Gloaming sunk by mine off the Humber. Trawler HMS Dox and Tug HMS Sir Bevois bombed/sunk at Plymouth.
1942 Destroyer HMS Heythrop sunk by U-652 north east of Bardia
1943 USN Patrol Boat YP-438 hits a breakwater and sinks at the entrance to Port Everglades
1944 Sub HMS Graph wrecked off Could point. Sperrbrecher 163 sunk by mine in the Skagerrak
1945 Sloop HMS Lapwing sunk by U-968 in the Kola Inlet. R.N. LST 80 sunk by mine off Ostend. Minesweepers M-15 and 16 bombed/sunk at Kiel. U-1003 damaged when she rams Frigate HMCS New Glasgow, scuttled on the 23rd. Aux. Sub chaser Kainan Maru sunk by Sub USS Baya south of Cam Ranh Bay, French Indochina
1988 Battle of Afabet ends
2003 Allies invade Iraq
 
Mar 23
1757 British capture Chandannagar
1815 HMS Penguin captured by USS Hornet off Tristan da Cunha
1862 1st Battle of Kernstown
1879 Battle of Topater
1885 Battle of Phu Lam Tao
1939 Slovak-Hungarian War begins
1940 Trawler HMS Loch Assiter sunk by mine north east of Kinnaird Head
1941 U-551 sunk by Trawler HMS Visenda south of Iceland
1942 Italian Destroyers Lanciere and Scirocco sank in a storm. Japanese occupy the Andaman Islands.
1943 Italian sub Delfino scuttled after a collision off Augusta
1944 I-42 sunk by sub USS Tunny off Palau. US LCT-315 explodes and sinks at Eniwetok. U-575 sunk by US and Canadian ships and USN and RAF aircraft. US Patrol Boat YP-331 sinks in a storm off Key West
1945 Battleship Gniesenau scuttled as a blockship at Gdynia. R.N. MTB 705 sunk by mine in the Adriatic. RO-41 sunk by destroyer USS Haggard. KM Patrol Ship V-2022 sunk by sub in the Kattegat
2003 Battle of Nasiriyah begins
 
24 Mar
1862 Siege of Ft. Macon begins
1878 HMS Eurydice sinks off the Isle of Wight
1885 Battle of Bang Bo
1940 French destroyer La Railleuse sunk when one of her torpedos exploded off Casablanca
1941 Armed Yacht HMS Wilna bombed/sunk at Portsmouth
1942 Destroyer HMS Southwold sunk by mine off Valetta, Malta. U-655 rammed/sunk by Minesweeper HMS Sharpshooter in the Barents Sea.
1944 "The Great Escape" from Luft Stalag III. I-32 sunk by USN ships off Wotje
1945 Torpedo Boat Tomozuru, Frigate CD-68, Aux. Minesweepers Seki Maru, Chitose Maru, and Shoan Maru No. 16 sunk by USN aircraft half way between Shanghai and Okinawa. KM Sub Chaser UJ-1435 bombed/sunk at Egersund
1999 NATO intervienes in the Kosovo War
 
Mar 25
1863 Ram USS Lancaster sunk by field artillery in Black Bayou
1865 Battle of Ft. Stedman
1942 Whaler HMS Sulla sank off Bear Island
1943 U-469 sunk by RAF B-17 south of Iceland
1944 Sub Chaser CH-54 sunk by USS Pollock north of Muki Jima. U-976 sunk by RAF Mosquitos off St. Nazaire.
1958 1st flight AVRO-Canada Arrow
1971 S. Vietnamese invasion of Laos ends
 
26th March 1945.
My Uncle John was murdered by Japanese guards on the Sandekan Death March.

Rest in Peace Uncle John you will not be forgotten.
 
Mar 26
1344 Siege of Algeciras ends, began 3 Aug. 1342
1862 Battle of Apache canyon
1913 Siege of Adrianople ends, began 3 Nov 1912
1917 1st Battle of Gaza
1941 Cruiser HMS York damaged by Italian explosive motor boats and beached in Suda Bay, scuttled in May . Armed Yacht HMCS Otter burns off Halifax.
1942 Destroyer HMS Legion bombed/sunk, and Sub HMS P39 bombed/beached, later bombed/wrecked, at Malta. Destroyer HMS Jaguar sunk by U-652 off Sidi Barrani.
1943 Free French Navy Trawler Sgt. Gouarne sunk by U-755 north of Ceuta.
1944 R.N. MTB 352 sunk in a collision in the North Sea. Sub USS Tullibee sunk by own torpedo
1945 Battle of Iwo Jima ends. Sub Chasers CH-34 and 63 sunk by Destroyers HMS Vigilant and Virago off The Andamans. Destroyer USS Halligan damaged by sub Ha-67, wreck washes ashore off Okinawa the next day and is finished off by shore batteries. U-399 sunk by Frigate HMS Duckworth. KM Target Ship Zahringen scuttled as a blockship at Gotenhafen.
2010 S. Korean Corvette Cheonan probably sunk by N. Korean sub in the Yellow Sea.
 
Mar 27
1809 Battle of Ciudad Real
1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend
1836 Goliad Massacre
1865 Siege of Ft. McDermett and Ft. Blakely begins
1899 Battle of Marilao River
1940 U-21 runs aground off Norway, refloated and interned by Norway until Germans occupy Norway in April
1942 Q Ship USS Atik sunk with all hands by U-123 off Norfolk, Va. U-587 sunk by 5 R.N. ships
1943 Battle of the Komandorski Islands. USCG Patrol Boat 85006 sunk by internal explosion off Long Island. Escort Carrier HMS Dasher sunk by internal explosion in the Firth of Clyde.. U-169 sunk by RAF B-17.
1944 Whaler HMS Maaloy sunk with all hands by U-510 off Ceylon. PT-121 and 353 bombed/sunk by RAAF aircraft off New Britain.
1945 Argentina declares War on Germany and Japan. IJN sub Ha-208 bombed/sunk off Okinawa. U-722 sunk by Frigates HMS Fitzroy, Redmill, and Byron west of Scotland. U-905 sunk by Frigate HMS Conn in The Minch.
1999 F-117 downed by Yugoslavia
 
Mar 28
1794 Battle of Le Cateau
1809 Battle of Medellin
1814 USS Essex captured by HMS Phoebe and Cherub off Valparaiso, Chile
1860 Battle of Waireka begins
1862 Battle of Glorietta Pass.
1863 Gunboat USS Diana captured at Pattersonville, La.
1883 Battle of Gia Cuc ends
1931 1st flight 2MR8 Japanese recon aircraft.
1939 Siege of Madrid ends, began Nov.'36. Spanish civil War effectively ends.
1941 Battle of Cape Matapan: Italian Cruisers Fiume, Pola, Zara, Destroyers Giosue Carducci and Vittorio Alfieri sunk. Italian Torpedo Boat Gen. Antonio Chinotto sunk by mine off Greece
1942 St. Nazaire Raid: Destroyer HMS Campbelltown expended as a bomb, 12 Motor Launches, 1 MTB and 1 MGB lost. Battle of Sumatra ends.
1943 U-77 depth charged/sunk by RAF Hudsons south of Cape Nao, Spain
1944 Sub HMS Syrtis sunk off Bodo, Norway
1945 Minesweeper USS Skylark sunk by mine off Okinawa. Sub USS Trigger sunk by Frigates CD-33, 59 and Mikura. Mikura in turn sunk by USS Threadfin, and CD-33 bombed/sunk by US Navy aircraft. Patrol Boat PB-108 bombed/sunk by B-24s off Celebes. Minesweeper W-11 bombed/sunk by B-24s in Makassar Strait. Red Army captures Danzig.
1951 Battle of Mao Khe ends
 
Mar 29
1430 Ottomans capture Thessalonica
1461 Battle of Towton
1847 Siege of Veracruz ends
1879 Battle of Kumbula
1911 Colt M1911 adopted by the US Army
1942 KM Destroyer Z-26 sunk by Cruiser HMS Trinidad and Destroyer Eclipse in the Barents Sea.
1943 KM E Boat S-29 sunk by R.N. MGBs
1944 U-961 sunk by Sloop HMS Starling north of the Faroes.
1945 Frigates CD-18 and 130 bombed/sunk, and CD-84 sunk by USS Hammerhead, all off Cape Varella, French Indochina. Frigate HMCS Teme damaged by U-315 and scrapped. KM Patrol Boat V-5532 damaged by Norwegian MTB 716 and 717, beached/burned off Norway. U-1106 sunk by RAF B-24 north east of the Faroes. U-1169 sunk by Frigate HMS Duckworth south of Lizard Point.
 
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