This day in military history..

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 Trawler HMS Dervish sunk by mine off the 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 Battle of Salerno begins. KM Minesweeper R-7 and 13 scuttled at Salerno. Italian Battleship Roma sunk by German glide bomb. Most of the Italian Fleet is 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. I-182 sunk by USS Trot in Surigao Strait.
1944 U-484 sunk by Corvette HMS Porchester Castle and Frigate HMS Helmsdale. KM Minesweeper R-304 sunk by mine off Eggeroy. Croatian River Monitor Sava scuttled, raised, repaired and returned to Yugoslav service post-War.
 
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. 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
1943 Minelayer 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 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. Torpedo Boat TA 11 sunk by Italian torpedo Boat Aliseo, Corvette Cormorano and Italian tanks at Elba. Italian Gunboat Aurora, sunk by E Boats S-61 and 64. Torpedo Boats T-6, Impetuoso, Partenope, Pegaro and MTB MAS 431 scuttled. Sub Chasers VAS 208, 214, 219, and 220 sunk by German coastal batteries.
1944 U-19 scuttled off Turkey in the Black Sea. KM Minesweeper M-462 bombed/sunk off Skagen, Denmark. Minesweeper R-80 sunk by aircraft.
2001 9/11 Terrorist attacks
2012 Benghazi Embassy attack
 
Sept 12
490 B.C. Battle of Marathon
1213 Battle of Muret
1229 Aragon invades Majorca
1309 Siege of Gibraltar ends
1683 Battle of Vienna ends
1814 Battle of North Point, Md
1847 Battle of Chapultepec begins
1861 Battle of Cheat Mountain, Va ends. Siege of Lexington, Mo begins
1897 Battle of Saragarhi
1934 1st flight Gloster Gladiator
1936 1st flight Nakajima KI-34
1940 Tug HMS Salvage King wrecked off Duncansby Head, Caithness
1941 Soviet Patrol Ship PC-121 bombed/sunk in Black Sea off Tendra
1942 Battle of Edson's Ridge begins. U-88 sunk by Destroyer HMS Faulknor south of Spitzbergen.
1943 Mussolini rescued by Skorzeny. Laconia Incident.
1943 Italians subs Ametiste, and Sepente, and MAS Boat MAS 518 scuttled. Fleet Tug USS Navajo sunk by I-39. U-617 ran aground off Melilla, Spain while under air attack, shelled and sunk by Corvettes HMS Hyacinth and HMAS Wallongong
1944 Destroyer USS Noa sank after being rammed by Destroyer USS Fullam. US Sub USS Growler sinks Destroyer Shikinami & Frigate Hirado, plus transports Rayuku Maru & Kachidoki Maru carrying 2118 British & Australian POWs. Japanese rescue 780 & US Subs 159. They were survivors of those who worked on building the Burma Railroad, "Bridge on the River Kwai". IJN MTBs Gyoraitoi 52, 62, and 67 sunk by US Carrier aircraft off Cebu. US Minesweeper YMS-409 foundered with all hands in the Great Hurricane of 1944 off Florida. KM Minesweeper M-426 sunk by British aircraft off Kritiansand. Torpedo Boat T-61 bombed/sunk. Escort ship SG-19 bombed/sunk. Patrol Ship V-6307 sunk by aircraft off Stad, Norway.
1948 India invades Hyderabad
 
13 Sept
533 Battle of Ad Decimum
1515 Battle of Marignano begins
1759 Battle of Quebec
1808 Battle of Jutas
1814 Battle of Baltimore begins(bombardment of Ft. McHenry)
1847 Battle of Chapultepec ends, Mexico City captured by US.
1882 Battle of Tel el Keber
1914 1st Battle of Aisne
1939 French Cruiser/Minelayer Pluton's mines explode destroying her and damaging beyond repair Aux. Minesweepers Charcot, Chellah, and Gosse at Casablanca.
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. Motor Fishing Vessel HMS MFV 1032 sinks in tow in the western Med.
1951 Battle of Heartbreak Ridge begins
 
14 Sept
1180 Battle of Ishibashiyama
1763 Battle of Devil's Hole
1773 Russia captures a fort at Hirsov
1808 Battle of Oravais
1812 French capture Moscow
1814 Bombardment of Ft. McHenry ends
1862 Battle of South Mountain
1939 1st flight (tethered) Sikorsky VS-300. 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. Seaplane Tender Ostmark sunk by HMS Tuna
1941 KM aux. Minesweeper M-1707 sunk by Soviet MTB TK-104 in the Baltic. Minesweepers R-60, 61, and 62 sunk by sabotage at Helsinki. Soviet Cruiser Petropavlovsk sunk by artillery at Leningrad
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 abandoned, put in KM service as RA-10
1943 Greek sub Katsonis sunk by Sub Chaser UJ-2010 off Skathos. Soviet MTB TK-95 sunk by KM Minesweepers in the Baltic
1944 The Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944 sinks USCG Patrol Boats Bedloe and Jackson at Oregon Inlet, N.C, Minesweeper YMS-409 and the Vinyard Sound Lightship. R.N. Minesweeper MMS 278 wrecked off St. Malo. IJN Landing Ship T-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
1939 Polish Minesweepers Czapla and Pomorzanin, and Navy tug Lech bombed/sunk at Justonia
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. U-261 sunk by RAF Whitley west of the Shetlands
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 T-3 sunk by USS Guavina in Gulf of Davao. KM Sub Chaser UJ-1224 sunk by Soviet aircraft in Kongsfjord
1950 Inchon Landing
 
Sept 16
1776 Battle of Harlem Heights
1779 Siege of Savannah begins
1795 Battle of Muizenberg ends, British capture Cape Town
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. Sub HMS Talisman sunk by mine in the Sicilian Passage
1943 Battle of Salerno ends. Italian Destroyer Giuseppe Dezza scuttled at Fiume, raised, repaired, put in KM service as TA-35. KM Patrol Ship Heistmest, Minesweeper R-19 and incomplete Torpedo Boat TA-4 bombed/sunk at Nantes.
1944 I-364 sunk by sub USS Sea Devil east of Tokyo. KM Torpedo Boat TA-14 sunk by aircraft at Salamis
1975 1st flight Mig-31
 
17 Sept
1176 Battle of Myriokephalon
1462 Battle of Swiecino
1761 Battle of Nevensund begins
1775 Siege of Ft. St. Jean begins
1793 Battle of Peyrestortes
1794 Battle of Sprimont begins
1813 2nd Battle of Kulm
1861 Battle of Pavon
1862 Battle of Sharpsburg ends
1868 Battle of Beecher's Island begins
1894 Battle of the Yalu River
1900 Battle of Mabitac
1901 Battle of Blood River Poort. Battle of Eland 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. Cruiser HMS Sussex bombed/sunk at Glasgow, raised, repaired, returned to service. KM Patrol Ship V-304 sunk by mine in the North Sea.
1941 Swedish Destroyer Klas Uggla sunk by an explosion that also sinks destroyers Goteborg and Klas Horn at Harsfjarden. Goteborg and Klas Horn raised, repaired, returned to service.
1942 Trawler HMS Waterfly bombed/sunk off Dungeness. Italian Aux. Sub Chaser V-39 Giovanna shelled/sunk by sub HMS United off Misurata, Libya.
1943 PT-136 runs aground off Malai Island in the Vitiaz Strait and is scuttled. USS Pompano sunk by a seaplane off Japan
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
 
Sept 18
324 Battle of Chrysopolis
1454 Battle of Konitz
1759 Quebec surrenders
1914 South Africa invades German South West Africa
1931 Mukden Incident begins
1939 Polish River Monitor Warszawa scuttled in the Pripyat River, raised, repaired And put in Soviet service as "Vitebsk".
1941 Soviet River Monitor Vitebsk scuttled near Kiev, raised and scrapped 1944.
1943 KM Sub Chaser UJ-2104 scuttled after being damaged by 3 R.N. Destroyers in the Bay of Stampalia. Italian sub Francesco Rismondo scuttled Corsica. MTB MS 45 scuttled Cattolica.
1944 Auxiliary Gunboat/Minelayer Saigon Maru sunk by sub USS Flasher off Manila Bay. KM Minesweeper R-178 scuttled at Salonica. E Boat S-145 sunk by aircraft at Brest.
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 Trawler HMS Alouette sunk by U-552 west of Cape Espichel, Portugal. 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. Italian MTBs MS 12 and 23 sunk by German aircraft at Stampalia
1944 Continuation War ends. Battle of the Huertgen 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. E Boats S-183, 200, and 702 sunk by Frigate HMS Stayner and MTBs 724 and 728. Frigate Isoshima sunk by USS Shad off Honshu. Sub Tender Jingei damaged by USS Scabbardfish, beached at Okinawa. 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
1564 Battle of Ft. Caroline
1604 Siege of Ostend ends
1792 Battle of Valmy
1854 Battle of Alma
1857 East India Company recaptures Delhi
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 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 1st flight De Havilland Vampire. 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.
 
Sept 21
1217 Battle of St. Matthew's Day
1745 Battle of Prestonpans
1860 Battle of Palikao
1862 Battle of Blackford's Ford
1896 Battle of Dongala
1939 KM Sub Chaser UJ-171 wrecked in the Baltic
1941 Soviet Destroyer Frunza bombed/sunk east of Tendra Island, Destroyer 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. Net Layer Koei Maru sunk by USS Trout south of Truk.
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 of 81 survivors of HMCS St. Croix
1944 Destroyer Satsuki bombed/sunk at Manila, Frigate CD-5 bombed/sunk off the west coast of Luzon
1953 N. Korean Mig defects to S. Korea
1961 1st flight CH-47
1964 1st flight XB-70
1981 Philippine Frigate Datu Kalantiaw wrecked on Calayan Island by 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(families 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
1938 1st flight Curtiss Wright CW-21 interceptor aircraft
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. Soviet Aux. Minesweeper Sergey Kirov sunk by Finnish MTB Syoksy in the Baltic.
1943 Australian troops land at Finschafen. 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. U-229 sunk by destroyer HMS Keppel east of Cape Farewell
1965 1965 Indo-Pakistani War ends
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 is damaged by HMAS Australia and is beached, and Sub Persee is sunk by Cruiser HMS Dragon & 2 R.N. Destroyers
1941 Soviet Battleship Murat bombed/sunk at Kronstadt in shallow water, used as stationary battery rest of the War. Sub M-74, Destroyer Minsk, and Torpedo Boat Purga also bombed/sunk there. Soviet MTB 12 sunk by Patrol Ship V-309 after she sank V-308
1942 1st Battle of the Matanikau begins
1943 KM Sloop SG-2 bombed/sunk at Nantes. Minesweeper R-94 sunk by mine off Dunkirk. Torpedo Boat TA-10 damaged by Destroyer HMS Eclipse, scuttled on the 27th.
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. Cruiser Toranto, captured by the Germans after being scuttled in '43, is bombed and sunk by Allied aircraft at La Spezia. 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
1846 Battle of Monterrey ends
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 Ship-of-the-Line HMS Wellesley bombed/sunk in the River Thames, last R.N. Ship-of-the-Line to be sunk by enemy action and the only one to be sunk by aircraft. 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. Battle of Dakar: Vichy French Sub Ajax bombed/sunk by aircraft from HMS Arc Royal.
1941 KM Minelayer Konigin Luise sunk by mine off Helsinki
1943 Motor Minesweeper HMS MMS 70 sunk by mine in the Gulf of Taranto. Italian Torpedo Boat Francesco Stocco sunk by German aircraft off Corfu.
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 25
1066 Battle of Stamford Bridge
1396 Battle of Nicopolis
1775 Battle of Longue-Pointe
1846 US captures Monterrey
1868 Russian Frigate Alexander Nevsky wrecked off Jutland
1911 French Battleship Libert'e sunk by magazine explosion caused by unstable gunpowder, one of a number of French ships victimized by the powder.
1915 2nd Battle of Compagne begins
1937 Battle of Pingzinguan ends
1940 Battle of Dakar ends. Trawler HMS Stella Sirius bombed/sunk by Vichy French aircraft at Gibraltar. Trawler HMS White Daisy founders east of the Shetland Islands
1942 U-253 sunk by mine north west of Iceland. Destroyer HMAS Voyager is scuttled off Timor after running aground on the 23rd and being bombed on the 24th.
1943 Trawler HMS Franc Tireur sunk with all hands by E-Boat S-96, S-96 sunk by ramming by R.N. Motor Launches HMML 145 & 150 off Harwich. Trawler HMS Donna Nook rammed/sunk by Trawler HMS Stella Rigel. Minesweeper USS Skill sunk by U-593 off Capri. US LST-167 bombed/sunk off Vela Lavella. Italian Torpedo Boat Enrico Cosenz bombed by Germans, scuttled on the 27th, and Giuseppe Sitori blown up by her crew after being bombed/beached on the 14th. KM Minesweeper M-119 scuttled in Italy.
1944 Operation Market-Garden ends. Minelayer USS Miantonomah sunk by mine off Le Harve. KM Patrol ship V-6101 bombed/sunk, & V-6105 and F-752 bombed/beached, by Soviet aircraft
1955 Royal Jordanian Air Force est.
 
Sept 26
715 Battle of Copiegne
1345 Battle of Warns
1371 Battle of Maritsa
1777 British capture Philidelphia,the Capitol of the U.S.
1826 Battle of Ganja
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
1941 U Boat Tender Mosel I sunk by mine off Latvia.
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. Italian MTB MAS 534 sunk by German aircraft off Leros. KM Sub Chasers RA-267 and 268 scuttled in Italy
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. River Gun Boat Saga sunk by mine at Hong Kong, raised, repaired, returned to service. RO-47 sunk by Destroyer Escort USS McCoy Reynolds north east of Palau.
1950 U.N. troops captures Seoul
 
Sept 28
351 Battle of Mursa Major
1106 Battle of Tinchebray
1238 Siege of Valencia ends
1322 Battle of Muhldorf
1538 naval Battle of Preveza
1781 Siege of Yorktown begins
1868 Battle of Alcolea
1874 Battle of Palo Duro Canyon
1918 5th Battle of Ypres
1939 Warsaw surrenders
1940 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. Germans scuttle Italian sub chaser VAS 205 captured earlier in the month, raised post War, repaired and returned to Italian service.
1944 KM Minesweeper Dragoner bombed/sunk off Mandal. R.N. Motor Launch ML 216 sank off the east coast of England
 
29 Sept
1364 Battle of Auray
1789 US War Dept. & US Army created
1848 Battle of Pakozd
1864 Battle of Chaffin's Farm begins
1911 Italy declares War on the Ottomans
1918 Battle of St. Quentin Canal Begins
1932 Battle of Boqueron ends
1936 Battle of Cape Espartel: Spanish Republican Destroyer Amirante Juan Ferrandiz sunk by Nationalist Cruiser Canarias
1939 School Ship HMS Caledonia burns/sinks in the Firth of Forth, scrapped in '42
1940 Armed Yacht HMS Sappho sunk by mine off Falmouth
1941 KM Minesweeper R-158 sunk in collision with Raider Coronel off Hammerfest.
1943 USN LCT-342 ran aground and sank off Salerno
1944 KM Minelayer Drache bombed/sunk at Samos. U-863 sunk by USN PB4Y south east of Recife
1990 1st flight YF-22
 
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