This day in military history..

February 14
1778 - John Paul Jones in Ranger receives first official salute to U.S. Stars and Strips flag by European country, at Quiberon, France.
1813 - Essex becomes first U.S. warship to round Cape Horn and enter the Pacific Ocean.
1814 - USS Constitution captures British Lovely Ann and Pictou.
1840 - Officers from USS Vincennes make first landing in Antarctica on floating ice.
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PFC (later Sgt) Chuck Mawhinny USMC as a scout sniper in RVN hels at bay a bn of NVA infantry . Mawhinny fired 16 shots using an M14 equipped with an ANPVS 2 Starlight scope and scored 16 kills , breaking the enemies advance.
 
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PFC (later Sgt) Chuck Mawhinny USMC as a scout sniper in RVN hels at bay a bn of NVA infantry . Mawhinny fired 16 shots using an M14 equipped with an ANPVS 2 Starlight scope and scored 16 kills , breaking the enemies advance.
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Feb 15
1862 Battle of Ft. Donaldson 3rd day. Confederate break out attempt contained
1898 USS Maine blows up @ Havana, Cuba
1942 Singapore surrenders to the Japanese
1944 Bombing of the monastary @ Monte Cassino, Italy
1989 Soviets finish withdrawal from Afghanistan
 
Feb 16
1646 Battle of Great Torrington
1804 A raid by US Marines sucsessfully burns the captured US Frigate USS Philidelphia in Tripoli harbor.
1862 Battle of Ft. Donaldson 4th day. Gen. Grant demands & recieves unconditional surrender of the garrison.
1940 Boarding party from HMS Cossack capture German tanker Altmark & free 299 POWs.
1945 US troops land on Corrigidor
2006 Last US Army MASH unit decommisioned.
 
February 16
1804 - Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, with volunteers from frigate Constitution and schooner Enterprise, enters Tripoli harbor by night in the ketch Intrepid to burn the captured frigate Philadelphia. Decatur's raid succeeds without American losses. England's Lord Nelson calls this "the most daring act of the age."
1815 - USS Constitution captures British Susannah
1967 - Operation River Raider begins in Mekong Delta
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February 17
1864 - Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley sinks USS Housatonic
H.L. Hunley was a Confederate submersible that demonstrated the advantage and danger of undersea warfare. Although not this nation's first submarine, Hunley was the first submarine to engage and sink a warship.
1942 - First Construction Battalion (Seabees) arrive Bora Bora
1944 - Carrier aircraft strike Japanese fleet at Truk, sinking ships and destroying aircraft.
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Feb 17
1370 Battle of Radau
1500 Battle of Hemmingstedt
1814 Battle of Mormons French defeat Russians & Wurttemburgers
1865 Union Army burns Columbia, SC & Confederate troops evacuate Charleston, SC
1944 US troops land on Eniwetok
1979 Sino-Vietnamese War begins
1995 Cenepa War between Peru & Equador ends
 
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February 18
1846 - General order on Port and Starboard
1944 - Amphibious Force under RADM Hill lands troops on Engebi Island, Eniwetok
1955 - 1st of 14 detonations, Operation Teapot nuclear test

Click on General order link to see when the Navy changed from Larboard and Starboard.

For landlubbers Port and Larboard equals left.
Starboard is right.

Both are referenced facing the bow(pointy end of a ship).:pirate:
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February 19
1814 - USS Constitution captures British brig Catherine
1945 - Marines with naval gunfire support land on Iwo Jima; island secured 16 March.
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Feb 18
1268 Battle of Rakvere
1797 English capture Trinidad
1814 Battle of Montereau

Feb 19
197 Battle of Lugdunum Bloodiest battle between Roman Armys.
1674 Treaty of Westminster ends 3rd Anglo-Dutch War & seedes New Amsterdam to England.
1942 Japanese air raid on Darwin Australia kills almost 250 people
FDR signs Internment Order for Japanese-Americans
1943 Battle of Kasserine Pass, Tunisia
 
Feb 20
1862 Confederates evacuate Columbus, Ky as a result of the fall of Ft. Donaldson
1864 Battle of Olustee Biggest battle in Fla, CS victory
1942 Butch O'Hare becomes 1st US Ace of WWII
1944 "Big Week" of air strikes on Germany begins
1959 AVRO Canada Arrow cancelled
 
February 20
1815 - USS Constitution, under Captain Charles Stewart, captures HMS Cyane and sloop-of-war Levant
1962 – Lt. Col. John Glenn, USMC becomes first American to orbit Earth. His flight in Friendship 7 (Mercury 6) consisted of 3 orbits in 88 minutes at a velocity of 17,544 mph with the highest altitude of 162.2 statute miles. Recovery was by USS Noa (DD-841).
1962 - USS Dixie (AD-14) rescues lone crewman aboard a sailing yawl adrift for four days.
1974 - S-3A Viking ASW aircraft (carrier jet) introduced officially, given to VS-41.

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Feb 21
1543 Battle of Wayna Daga Portugese/Ethiopian Army defeats Muslims
1862 Battle of Valverde, New Mexico
1916 Battle of Verdun begins
1945 Kamakazes sink Aircraft Carrier USS Bismarck Sea & damages USS Saratoga
1974 Israel evacuates west bank of the Suez Canal
 
This Day in US Naval History - Feb. 21

1861 - Steven R. Mallory, a former chairman of the U.S. House Naval Affairs Committee, is appointed Secretary of the Navy of the Confederate States.
1943 - American forces land unopposed on the Russell Islands, 30 miles northwest of Guadalcanal, beginning the advance through the central Solomons.
1944 - U.S. Marines, with support of naval bombardment and carrier aircraft, secure Eniwetok Atoll.
1991 - Marine AV-8Bs conduct bombing runs off the flight deck of USS Nassau (LHA 4). This is the first time in history that Marine AV-8B jump jets have conducted combat missions from a helicopter assault ship.
 
Feb 22
1744 Battle of Toulon
1865 Union troops enter Wilmington, N.C.
1915 Germany begins unrestricted submarine warfare
1942 Gen. Douglas McArthur ordered out of the Phillipines.
 
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This Day in Naval History - Feb. 22


1865 - A Union squadron under the command of Rear Adm. David Dixon Porter bombards and captures Wilmington, N.C.
1870 - After arriving on USS Nipsic, the Darien Expedition, commanded by Cmdr. Thomas O. Selfridge Jr., begins active operations ashore at Caldonia Bay. The exhibition then surveys the Isthmus of Darien, Panama, for an interoceanic ship canal.
1909 - The "Great White Fleet" returns to Hampton Roads, Va., from its historic around-the-world cruise.
1943 - USS Iowa (BB 61), the lead ship of the last class of American fast battleships, is commissioned.
1974 - Lt. j.g. Barbara Ann Allen becomes the first Navy officer designated as a female aviator.
 
February 23
1795 - U.S. Navy Office of Purveyor of Supplies is established. This is the Navy Supply Corps Birthday.
1919 - Launching of Osmond Ingram (DD-255), first Navy ship named for an enlisted man
1944 - Carrier groups under Spruance attack Saipan, Tinian and Rota in the Marianas
1945 - Marines and a Navy hospital corpsman raise flag on Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima
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Feb 23
1778 Baron Von Steuben arrives in Valley Forge to assist in training the Continental Army
1836 Siege of the Alamo begins
1847 Battle of Buena Vista, Mexico
1900 Battle of Hart's Hill, South Africa(Boer War)
1991 Allied Forces enter Iraq
 
February 24
1813 - USS Hornet, Captain James Lawrence, captures HMS Peacock
1968 - Task Force Clearwater established in I Corps
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