This day in military history..

March 7
US Navy History
1958 - Commissioning of USS Grayback, first submarine built from keel up with guided missile capability, to fire Regulus II missile.
1960 - USS Kearsarge (CVS-33) rescues 4 Russian soldiers from their landing craft 1,000 miles from Midway Island, which was drifting several weeks after their engine failed off Kamchatka Peninsula.
1966 - Department of Navy reorganized into present structure under CNO
1967 - PBRs assists Operation Overload II in Rung Sat Zone, Vietnam
1968 - Operation Coronado XII begins in Mekong Delta, Vietnam
1994 - Navy issues first orders to women assigned aboard combat ship, USS Eisenhower
​
 
Mar 7
1799 Napoleon captures Jaffa, Palestine
1814 Battle of Craonne
1827 Battle of Carmen De Patagones Brazilian Marines unsucsessfully attack Argentine Navy Base.
1862 Battle of Pea Ridge, Ark. 2nd day
1936 Germany reoccupied the Rhineland in defiance of Treaties
1945 US troops sieze the Ludendorf Bridge over the Rhine @ Remagen
1951 Operation Ripper UN troops attack Chinese troops in Korea.
 
Last edited:
March 8
US Navy History

1854 - Commodore Matthew Perry opens treaty negotiations with Japan
1862 - Ironclad ram CSS Virginia destroys USS Cumberland and Congress
1945 - Phyllis Daley becomes first African-American Ensign, Navy Nurse Corps
1958 - Battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is decommissioned, leaving the Navy without an active battleship for the first time since 1895.
1965 - Seventh Fleet lands first major Marine units in South Vietnam at Danang
 
Mar 8
1722 Battle of Gulnabad Afghans defeat Persians
1862 Battle of Pea Ridge, Ark. 3rd day Union Army defeats Confederates
1942 Dutch forces on Java surrender to the Japanese.
 
Mar 9
1230 Battle of klokotnita
1862 naval Battle of Hampton Roads, 2nd day USS Monitor & CSS Virginia battle to a draw
1865 Battle of Kinston, N.C. 2nd day
Battle of Monroe's Crossroad, Va
1916 Poncho Villa Raids Columbus N.M. & attacks US Army camp.
 
March 9
US Navy hisory
1798 - Appointment of first surgeon U.S. Navy, George Balfour
1847 - Commodore David Connor leads successful amphibious assault near Vera Cruz, Mexico
1862 - First battle between ironclads, USS Monitor and CSS Virginia
1914 - Test of wind tunnel at Washington Navy Yard
​
 
March 10

US Navy History
1783 - USS Alliance (CAPT John Barry) defeats HMS Sybil in final naval action of Revolution in West Indies waters
1933 - Pacific Fleet provides assistance after earthquake at Long Beach, CA
1945 - Navy and civilian nurses interned at Los Banos, Philippines flown back to U.S. Navy nurses awarded Bronze Star.
1948 - First use of jets assigned to operational squadron (VF-5A) on board a carrier (Boxer)
 
Mar 10
241 B.C. naval Battle of the Aegates Islands Romans destroy Carthage's Fleet, ending the 1st Punic War
1606 Battle of Gol
1814 Battle of Laon
1830 Royal Netherlands East India Army created
1831 French Foriegn Legion created
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican-American War
 
Mar 11
1387 Battle of Castagnaro
1641 Battle of Mborare
1917 British capture Bagdhad
1941 President Roosevelt signs Lend-Lease Act into Law.
 
March 11
1935 - Birth of Naval Security Group when OP-20G became the Communications Security Group
1941 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Lend-Lease Act
1942 - In a PT boat, LCDR John Bulkeley leaves the Philippines to take General Douglas MacArthur to Australia
1945 - Use of first Navy landing craft to cross Rhine River at Bad Neuenahr
1965 - Market Time patrols begin off South Vietnam coast
​
 
Mar 12
538 Visigoths end siege of Rome & go home.
1689 Williamite War begins in Ireland
1864 Red River Campaign begins when a fleet of 13 Ironclads & 7 gunboats with 27,000 Union troops head up the Red River
1940 Winter War ends with Russian victory over Finland
 
March 12
US Navy History
1917 - All American merchant ships to be armed in war zones
1942 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt designates Admiral Ernest J. King to serve as the Chief of Naval Operations, as well as the Commander-in-Chief, United States Fleet to which he was appointed on 30 December 1941.
1956 - In first overseas deployment of Navy missile squadron, VA-83 left on USS Intrepid
​
 
Mar 13
1884 Siege of Khartoum begins
1900 2nd Boer War British occupy Bloemfontien, Orange Free State
1954 Battle of Dien Bien Phu begins
 
March 13
US Navy History
1895 - Award of first submarine building contract to John P. Holland Torpedo Boat Co.
1917 - Armed merchant ships authorized to take action against U-boats.
1959 - Naval Research Laboratory takes first ultraviolet pictures of sun.
1963 - USS Albany (CG-10) and aircraft from Navy Airborne Early Warning Squadron Four from Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico aid five ill crewmembers of Norwegian freighter Jotunfjell.
​
 
March 14

US Navy History
1863 - RADM Farragut's squadron of 7 ships forces way up Mississippi
River to support Union troops at Vicksburg and Baton Rouge
1929 - NAS Pensacola aircraft make 113 flights for flood rescue and
relief
 
Mar 14
1590 Battle of Inry
1674 Treaty of Ulm signed by Bavaria, Cologne, France & Sweden
1862 Union troops capture New Berne, NC & New Madrid, Mo.
1863 In the evening a US fleet tries to run past Confederate fortifications @ Port Hudson, La. Of the 7 ships, only 2 make it past while USS Mississippi runs aground within range of CS guns & the others are forced back.
1864 Red River Campaign Battle of Ft. DeRussy Union troops capture the Fort.
1915 German light crusier SMS Dresden scuttled off of Chile.
1951 UN troops capture Seoul, So. Korea for the 2nd time in the Korean War.
1978 Operation Litani Israel invades southern Lebanon.
 
Last edited:
Mar 15
1311 Battle of Halmyros
1781 Battle of Guilford Courthouse, N.C.
1863 Port Hudson @ 3 AM USS Mississippi is abandoned & set on fire.Short time later she comes unstuck & floats down stream through the fleet & later explodes when the fire reaches the magazine.
1864 US fleet captures Alexandria, La
1916 US troops enter Mexico in pursuit of Pancho Villa
1939 Germany occupies the rest of Czechoslavakia
1943 3rd Battle of Karkov
 
Last edited:
March 15
US Navy History
1943 - Numbered fleet system established
1947 - Ensign John W. Lee becomes first African American officer commissioned in regular Navy. He was assigned to USS Kearsage.
1957 - Airship ZPG-2 lands NAS Key West after 11 day non-stop flight across the Atlantic
1966 - Establishment of River Squadron Five in Vietnam
​
 
Mar 16
597 Babylonians capture Jeruselem
1322 Battle of Boroughbridge
1802 US Army Corps of Engineers founded
1812 Battle of Badajoz siege begins
1818 2nd Battle of Cancha Rayada
1865 Battle of Averasborough, NC
1945 Iwo Jima secured
1968 My Lai Massacre
 
March 16

US Navy History
1911 - Hulk of USS Maine sunk at sea in deep water with full military honors.
1945 - Iwo Jima declared secure.
1966 - Launch of Gemini 8. Former naval aviator Neil Armstrong flew on this mission which completed 7 orbits in 10 hours and 41 minutes at an altitude of 161.3 nautical miles. Recovery was by USS Leonard F. Mason (DD-852).
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top