This day in military history..
tomtom22
Chief Engineer
Some older history
January 4
1942: The Red Army captures Kaluga SW of Moscow.
1944: On the southern front in the Ukraine, Soviet forces cross the old Polish-Russian border in Volhynia.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/january.html
1942: Japanese air attacks begin against Rabaul, New Britain - Rabaul possessed a number of airfields and one of the best natural harbours in the south-west Pacific. Its capture gave Japan a base from which to launch air attacks towards New Guinea and north-eastern Australia as well as a strong south-eastern corner to its defensive perimeter in the Pacific.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
871 - Battle of Reading - Ethelred of Wessex fights, and is defeated by, a Danish invasion army.
1642 - English Civil War: King Charles I of England attacks Parliament.
1717 - The Netherlands, England and France sign the Triple Alliance.
1762 - England declares war on Spain and Naples.
1944 - World War II: The Battle of Monte Cassino begins.
1951 - Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_4
1944: United States begins supplying guerrilla forces - U.S. aircraft begin dropping supplies to guerrilla forces throughout Western Europe. The action demonstrated that the U.S. believed guerrillas were a vital support to the formal armies of the Allies in their battle against the Axis powers.
1974: Thieu announces war has resumed - South Vietnamese troops report that 55 soldiers have been killed in two clashes with communist forces. Claiming that the war had "restarted," South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu asserted, "We cannot allow the communists a situation in which...they can launch harassing attacks against us," and ordered his forces to launch a counter-offensive to retake lost territory.
source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih
January 4
1942: The Red Army captures Kaluga SW of Moscow.
1944: On the southern front in the Ukraine, Soviet forces cross the old Polish-Russian border in Volhynia.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/january.html
1942: Japanese air attacks begin against Rabaul, New Britain - Rabaul possessed a number of airfields and one of the best natural harbours in the south-west Pacific. Its capture gave Japan a base from which to launch air attacks towards New Guinea and north-eastern Australia as well as a strong south-eastern corner to its defensive perimeter in the Pacific.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
871 - Battle of Reading - Ethelred of Wessex fights, and is defeated by, a Danish invasion army.
1642 - English Civil War: King Charles I of England attacks Parliament.
1717 - The Netherlands, England and France sign the Triple Alliance.
1762 - England declares war on Spain and Naples.
1944 - World War II: The Battle of Monte Cassino begins.
1951 - Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_4
1944: United States begins supplying guerrilla forces - U.S. aircraft begin dropping supplies to guerrilla forces throughout Western Europe. The action demonstrated that the U.S. believed guerrillas were a vital support to the formal armies of the Allies in their battle against the Axis powers.
1974: Thieu announces war has resumed - South Vietnamese troops report that 55 soldiers have been killed in two clashes with communist forces. Claiming that the war had "restarted," South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu asserted, "We cannot allow the communists a situation in which...they can launch harassing attacks against us," and ordered his forces to launch a counter-offensive to retake lost territory.
source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih
tomtom22
Chief Engineer
January 8
1942: On the Northern front in Russia, the Red Army begins an offensive near Lake Ilmen.
1943: General Rokossovsky, C-in-C of Don Front, issues a surrender ultimatum to the troops of 6.Armee, guaranteeing "their lives and safety, and after the end of the war return to Germany', and promising that "...medical aid will be given to all wounded, sick and frost-bitten..."
1916: Evacuation of Helles - British and French landings at Helles on 25 April 1915, had failed to secure their objectives, leading to a lengthy stalemate on the southern tip of the Gallipoli Penninsula.
1952:RAAF launch first meteor rocket attack against ground forces - Meteors proved unsuitable in air-to-air combat against the superior MIGs and were reassigned to ground attack duties.
1958:Last Australian servicemen return from Korea - At the end of hostilities in Korea the peninsula remained divided between North and South. The war has yet to officially end.
871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats Danish invasion army.
1815 - War of 1812: In the Battle of New OrleansAndrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
1863 - Battle of Springfield of the American Civil War is fought.
1877 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry (Montana).
1916 - World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli.
1973: Peace talks resume in Paris - National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and Hanoi's Le Duc Tho resume peace negotiations in Paris.
1942: On the Northern front in Russia, the Red Army begins an offensive near Lake Ilmen.
1943: General Rokossovsky, C-in-C of Don Front, issues a surrender ultimatum to the troops of 6.Armee, guaranteeing "their lives and safety, and after the end of the war return to Germany', and promising that "...medical aid will be given to all wounded, sick and frost-bitten..."
1916: Evacuation of Helles - British and French landings at Helles on 25 April 1915, had failed to secure their objectives, leading to a lengthy stalemate on the southern tip of the Gallipoli Penninsula.
1952:RAAF launch first meteor rocket attack against ground forces - Meteors proved unsuitable in air-to-air combat against the superior MIGs and were reassigned to ground attack duties.
1958:Last Australian servicemen return from Korea - At the end of hostilities in Korea the peninsula remained divided between North and South. The war has yet to officially end.
871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats Danish invasion army.
1815 - War of 1812: In the Battle of New OrleansAndrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
1863 - Battle of Springfield of the American Civil War is fought.
1877 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry (Montana).
1916 - World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli.
1973: Peace talks resume in Paris - National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and Hanoi's Le Duc Tho resume peace negotiations in Paris.
tomtom22
Chief Engineer
Today is Friday the Thirteenth!!!!
January 13
1945: In the East, the Soviet 1st Belorussian Front (Zhukov) begins an offenive toward Pillkallen in East Prussia. German forces of Heeresgruppe E complete their withdrawal from Greece and Albania.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/january.html
1900
rieska, South Africa - New South Welshmen attacked at Prieska by Boers
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1099 - Crusaders set fire to Mara, Syria.
1847 - The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California.
1958 - Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_13
1776: British raid Prudence Island in Narragansett Bay - In the early morning hours, British forces raid Prudence Island, Rhode Island, in an effort to steal a large quantity of sheep. But, upon landing on the island’s southern beaches, the British were ambushed by fifteen Minutemen from Rhode Island’s Second Company led by Captain Joseph Knight, who had been tipped off to the Brits’ plans and rowed across Narragansett Bay from Warwick Neck the previous morning.
1916: Battle of Wadi - In an attempt to relieve their compatriots under heavy siege by Turkish forces at Kut-al Amara in Mesopotamia, British forces under the command of Lieutenant General Fenton Aylmer launch an attack against Turkish defensive positions on the banks of the Wadi River.
1942: Allies promise prosecution of war criminals - Representatives of nine German-occupied countries meet in London to declare that all those found guilty of war crimes would be punished after the war ended. Among the signatories to the declaration were Polish Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski and French Gen. Charles de Gaulle. The core of the declaration was the promise of "the punishment, through the channels of organized justice, of those guilty of, or responsible for, these crimes, whether they have ordered them, perpetrated them, or participated in them."
1962: First Operation Farm Gate missions flown - In the first Farm Gate combat missions, T-28 fighter-bombers are flown in support of a South Vietnamese outpost under Viet Cong attack.
1972: Nixon announces additional withdrawals - President Nixon announces that 70,000 U.S. troops will leave South Vietnam over the next three months, reducing U.S. troop strength there by May 1 to 69,000.
source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih.jsp?month=10272953&day=10272978&cat=10272949
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January 13
1945: In the East, the Soviet 1st Belorussian Front (Zhukov) begins an offenive toward Pillkallen in East Prussia. German forces of Heeresgruppe E complete their withdrawal from Greece and Albania.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/january.html
1900
rieska, South Africa - New South Welshmen attacked at Prieska by Boerssource: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1099 - Crusaders set fire to Mara, Syria.
1847 - The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California.
1958 - Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_13
1776: British raid Prudence Island in Narragansett Bay - In the early morning hours, British forces raid Prudence Island, Rhode Island, in an effort to steal a large quantity of sheep. But, upon landing on the island’s southern beaches, the British were ambushed by fifteen Minutemen from Rhode Island’s Second Company led by Captain Joseph Knight, who had been tipped off to the Brits’ plans and rowed across Narragansett Bay from Warwick Neck the previous morning.
1916: Battle of Wadi - In an attempt to relieve their compatriots under heavy siege by Turkish forces at Kut-al Amara in Mesopotamia, British forces under the command of Lieutenant General Fenton Aylmer launch an attack against Turkish defensive positions on the banks of the Wadi River.
1942: Allies promise prosecution of war criminals - Representatives of nine German-occupied countries meet in London to declare that all those found guilty of war crimes would be punished after the war ended. Among the signatories to the declaration were Polish Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski and French Gen. Charles de Gaulle. The core of the declaration was the promise of "the punishment, through the channels of organized justice, of those guilty of, or responsible for, these crimes, whether they have ordered them, perpetrated them, or participated in them."
1962: First Operation Farm Gate missions flown - In the first Farm Gate combat missions, T-28 fighter-bombers are flown in support of a South Vietnamese outpost under Viet Cong attack.
1972: Nixon announces additional withdrawals - President Nixon announces that 70,000 U.S. troops will leave South Vietnam over the next three months, reducing U.S. troop strength there by May 1 to 69,000.
source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih.jsp?month=10272953&day=10272978&cat=10272949
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MightyMacbeth
I am Honor
phoenix80 said:
wow, thats really interesting... caught my eyes..
and yeah, tomtom never gives up..heh, nothing better to do eh? yep, the good ol retired life.. how peaceful 8)
tomtom22
Chief Engineer
A busy day for WW II
January 14
1942: At the so called Arcadia Conerence held in Washington, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill agree to concentrate the Allied war effort on the European theater.
1943: Beginning of the Casablanca Conference in Morocco with Rooseelt and Churchill and the Allied joint staff along with the Combined Chiefs of Staff, to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war. This meeting marked the first time an American president left American soil during wartime. Participants also included leaders of the French government-in-exile, Gen. Charles de Gaulle and Gen. Henri Giraud, who were assured of a postwar united France.
1944: South of Leningrad, the Red Army begins an offensive against the lines of Heeresgruppe Nord (von Küchler) at Narva
1945: The Soviet 2nd Belorussian Front (Rokossovsky) begins an offensive from its Narev bridgehead against Elbing in East Prussia.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/january.html
1942:Gemas, Malaya - 8th Division inflicts heavy casualties on Japanese in an ambush at Gemas in the first Australian contact with Japanese troops of the Second World War.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1784: Continental Congress ratifies the Second Treaty of Paris, ending the War for Independence.
1915: South African troops occupy Swakopmund in German Southwest Africa - As part of an attempt to display its loyalty to the British empire and, perhaps more importantly, enlarge its own sphere of influence on the African continent, South Africa sends troops to occupy Swakopmund, a seaside town in German-occupied Southwest Africa (modern-day Namibia).
1942: Anglo-American Combined Chiefs of Staff established - United States and Great Britain agree to have the British Chiefs of Staff and the U.S. Joint Chiefs work together, either through meetings or representatives, to advise the leaders of both nations on military policy during the war.
1964: Westmoreland appointed as Harkins' deputy - Lt. Gen. William Westmoreland is appointed deputy to Gen. Paul Harkins, chief of U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV). It was generally accepted that Westmoreland would soon replace Harkins, whose insistently optimistic views on the progress of the war had increasingly come under criticism.
1968: Operation Niagara launched - U.S. joint-service Operation Niagara is launched to support the U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh.
1980: United Nations vote "deplores" Soviet intervention in Afghanistan - In a crushing diplomatic rebuke to the Soviet Union, the U.N. General Assembly votes 104 to 18 to "deplore" the Russian intervention in Afghanistan.
source: http://www.historychannel.com/
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January 14
1942: At the so called Arcadia Conerence held in Washington, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill agree to concentrate the Allied war effort on the European theater.
1943: Beginning of the Casablanca Conference in Morocco with Rooseelt and Churchill and the Allied joint staff along with the Combined Chiefs of Staff, to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war. This meeting marked the first time an American president left American soil during wartime. Participants also included leaders of the French government-in-exile, Gen. Charles de Gaulle and Gen. Henri Giraud, who were assured of a postwar united France.
1944: South of Leningrad, the Red Army begins an offensive against the lines of Heeresgruppe Nord (von Küchler) at Narva
1945: The Soviet 2nd Belorussian Front (Rokossovsky) begins an offensive from its Narev bridgehead against Elbing in East Prussia.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/january.html
1942:Gemas, Malaya - 8th Division inflicts heavy casualties on Japanese in an ambush at Gemas in the first Australian contact with Japanese troops of the Second World War.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1784: Continental Congress ratifies the Second Treaty of Paris, ending the War for Independence.
1915: South African troops occupy Swakopmund in German Southwest Africa - As part of an attempt to display its loyalty to the British empire and, perhaps more importantly, enlarge its own sphere of influence on the African continent, South Africa sends troops to occupy Swakopmund, a seaside town in German-occupied Southwest Africa (modern-day Namibia).
1942: Anglo-American Combined Chiefs of Staff established - United States and Great Britain agree to have the British Chiefs of Staff and the U.S. Joint Chiefs work together, either through meetings or representatives, to advise the leaders of both nations on military policy during the war.
1964: Westmoreland appointed as Harkins' deputy - Lt. Gen. William Westmoreland is appointed deputy to Gen. Paul Harkins, chief of U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV). It was generally accepted that Westmoreland would soon replace Harkins, whose insistently optimistic views on the progress of the war had increasingly come under criticism.
1968: Operation Niagara launched - U.S. joint-service Operation Niagara is launched to support the U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh.
1980: United Nations vote "deplores" Soviet intervention in Afghanistan - In a crushing diplomatic rebuke to the Soviet Union, the U.N. General Assembly votes 104 to 18 to "deplore" the Russian intervention in Afghanistan.
source: http://www.historychannel.com/
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tomtom22
Chief Engineer
Not much action
January 15
1942: Heeresgruppe Mitte (von Kluge) evacuates the Kaluga sector and takes up winter positions 20 m further West.
1943: On the Northern front in Russia, the Red Army captures Velikije Luki in the Valdai Hills.
1944: In Italy, French troops under General Juin capture Monte Santa Croce.
1945: In its drive toward the Oder river, the Red Army captures Kielce in western Poland.
1944:Sio - The capture of Sio by the 9th Australian Division represented the final destruction of the Japanese 20th Division in the protracted Huon Peninsula campaign of 1943-1944.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present day Vermont) declares its independence.
1943 - World War II: Japanese driven off Guadalcanal.
1973 - Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President of the United States Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
1865 Fort Fisher falls - Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to Union forces, and Wilmington, the Confederacy's most important blockade-running port, is closed.
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January 15
1942: Heeresgruppe Mitte (von Kluge) evacuates the Kaluga sector and takes up winter positions 20 m further West.
1943: On the Northern front in Russia, the Red Army captures Velikije Luki in the Valdai Hills.
1944: In Italy, French troops under General Juin capture Monte Santa Croce.
1945: In its drive toward the Oder river, the Red Army captures Kielce in western Poland.
1944:Sio - The capture of Sio by the 9th Australian Division represented the final destruction of the Japanese 20th Division in the protracted Huon Peninsula campaign of 1943-1944.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present day Vermont) declares its independence.
1943 - World War II: Japanese driven off Guadalcanal.
1973 - Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President of the United States Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
1865 Fort Fisher falls - Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to Union forces, and Wilmington, the Confederacy's most important blockade-running port, is closed.
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phoenix80
Banned
Jan 16th
I have a piece on this special day in the Iranian history
http://thespiritofman.blogspot.com/2006/01/today-in-history.html
I have a piece on this special day in the Iranian history
http://thespiritofman.blogspot.com/2006/01/today-in-history.html
tomtom22
Chief Engineer
Lots of action
January 17
1942: The British 8th Army (Auchinlech) captures ollum in Cyrenaica.
1945: The Red Army captures Czenstochova, while German forces evacuate Warsaw. The German defenders of encircled Budapest withdraw to Buda on the western bank of the Danube.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/january.html
1917:No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps sail for France -No. 4 Squadron was the final Australian Flying Corps squadron formed in the First World War. Its pilots flew Sopwith Camels over the Western Front beginning their active service in the battle of Cambrai.
1991:Coalition air attacks begin against Iraqi forces in Iraq and Kuwait. - The first day of the Gulf War which ended when Iraqi forces were driven from Kuwait.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1781: Battle of Cowpens, South Carolina - Relying upon strategic creativity, Brigadier General Daniel Morgan and a mixed Patriot force rout British Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton and a group of Redcoats and Loyalists at the Battle of Cowpens.
1865: General William T. Sherman's army is rained in at Savannah, Georgia, as it waits to begin marching into the Carolinas. In the fall of 1864, Sherman and his army marched across Georgia and destroyed nearly everything in their path. Sherman reasoned that the war would end sooner if the conflict were taken to the civilian South, a view shared by President Lincoln and General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant.
1916: Winston Churchill, beginning his service as a battalion commander on the Western Front, attends a lecture on the Battle of Loos given by his friend, Colonel Tom Holland, in the Belgian town of Hazebrouck. The Battle of Loos, which took place in September 1915, resulted in devastating casualties for the Allies and was taken by the British as a sign of the need to change their conduct of the war. In one major consequence, Sir John French was replaced by Sir Douglas Haig as British commander in the wake of that battle.
1945: Soviets capture Warsaw - Soviet troops liberate the Polish capital from German occupation. Warsaw was a battleground since the opening day of fighting in the European theater. Germany declared war by launching an air raid on September 1, 1939, and followed up with a siege that killed tens of thousands of Polish civilians and wreaked havoc on historic monuments. Deprived of electricity, water, and food, and with 25 percent of the city's homes destroyed, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 27.
1971: South Vietnamese forces raid POW camp - Led by South Vietnamese Lt. Gen. Do Cao Tri, and with U.S. air support and advisers, some 300 paratroopers raid a communist prisoner of war camp near the town of Mimot in Cambodia on information that 20 U.S. prisoners were being held there. They found the camp empty, but captured 30 enemy soldiers and sustained no casualties.
1972: President Richard Nixon warns South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu in a private letter that his refusal to sign any negotiated peace agreement would render it impossible for the United States to continue assistance to South Vietnam.
source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/
1746 - Charles Edward Stuart, "Bonnie Prince Charlie", defeats a Hanoverian army at Falkirk in his ultimately unsuccessful campaign to recover the throne for the Jacobite dynasty.
1885 - A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
1941 - Kuomintang forces under the order of Chiang Kai-Shek opened fire at communist force, Chinese Civil War resumes after WWII.(This event is known as 皖南事变).
1945 - The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
1991 - Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm began early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_17
January 17
1942: The British 8th Army (Auchinlech) captures ollum in Cyrenaica.
1945: The Red Army captures Czenstochova, while German forces evacuate Warsaw. The German defenders of encircled Budapest withdraw to Buda on the western bank of the Danube.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/january.html
1917:No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps sail for France -No. 4 Squadron was the final Australian Flying Corps squadron formed in the First World War. Its pilots flew Sopwith Camels over the Western Front beginning their active service in the battle of Cambrai.
1991:Coalition air attacks begin against Iraqi forces in Iraq and Kuwait. - The first day of the Gulf War which ended when Iraqi forces were driven from Kuwait.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1781: Battle of Cowpens, South Carolina - Relying upon strategic creativity, Brigadier General Daniel Morgan and a mixed Patriot force rout British Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton and a group of Redcoats and Loyalists at the Battle of Cowpens.
1865: General William T. Sherman's army is rained in at Savannah, Georgia, as it waits to begin marching into the Carolinas. In the fall of 1864, Sherman and his army marched across Georgia and destroyed nearly everything in their path. Sherman reasoned that the war would end sooner if the conflict were taken to the civilian South, a view shared by President Lincoln and General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant.
1916: Winston Churchill, beginning his service as a battalion commander on the Western Front, attends a lecture on the Battle of Loos given by his friend, Colonel Tom Holland, in the Belgian town of Hazebrouck. The Battle of Loos, which took place in September 1915, resulted in devastating casualties for the Allies and was taken by the British as a sign of the need to change their conduct of the war. In one major consequence, Sir John French was replaced by Sir Douglas Haig as British commander in the wake of that battle.
1945: Soviets capture Warsaw - Soviet troops liberate the Polish capital from German occupation. Warsaw was a battleground since the opening day of fighting in the European theater. Germany declared war by launching an air raid on September 1, 1939, and followed up with a siege that killed tens of thousands of Polish civilians and wreaked havoc on historic monuments. Deprived of electricity, water, and food, and with 25 percent of the city's homes destroyed, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 27.
1971: South Vietnamese forces raid POW camp - Led by South Vietnamese Lt. Gen. Do Cao Tri, and with U.S. air support and advisers, some 300 paratroopers raid a communist prisoner of war camp near the town of Mimot in Cambodia on information that 20 U.S. prisoners were being held there. They found the camp empty, but captured 30 enemy soldiers and sustained no casualties.
1972: President Richard Nixon warns South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu in a private letter that his refusal to sign any negotiated peace agreement would render it impossible for the United States to continue assistance to South Vietnam.
source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/
1746 - Charles Edward Stuart, "Bonnie Prince Charlie", defeats a Hanoverian army at Falkirk in his ultimately unsuccessful campaign to recover the throne for the Jacobite dynasty.
1885 - A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
1941 - Kuomintang forces under the order of Chiang Kai-Shek opened fire at communist force, Chinese Civil War resumes after WWII.(This event is known as 皖南事变).
1945 - The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
1991 - Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm began early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_17
tomtom22
Chief Engineer
Lots of different stuff!
February 5
1945: On the Eastern front, the Red Army approaches Elbing and Marienburg in East Prussia.
Source: http://www.feldgrau.com/february.html
1782 - Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.
1945 - World War II: GeneralDouglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
1968 - The Battle of Khe Sanh of the Vietnam War begins.
2003 - U.S. plan to invade Iraq: Colin Powell addresses the UN Security Council on Iraq. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_5
1980 - THE MAN CALLED INTREPID IS HONORED Hamilton Bermuda - Sir William Stephenson is awarded the Order of Canada; the ailing Winnipeg-born engineer pioneered digital wireless photo transmission. He worked for British intelligence during World War II under the code name Intrepid, and was the personal contact man between Churchill and Roosevelt. Source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Feb&day=05
1917 - Murray, VC - Captain H.W. Murray, 4th Division, originally from Launceston, Tasmania, wins the Victoria Cross at Stormy Trench north-east of Gueudecourt, France.
Source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1865 - Battle of Dabney's Mill (Hatcher's Run) - Union and Confederate forces around Petersburg, Virginia, begin a three-day battle that produces 3,000 casualties but ends with no significant advantage for either side.
1918 - U.S. steamship Tuscania is torpedoed and sinks - Anchor line steamship Tuscania, traveling as part of a British convoy and transporting over 2,000 American soldiers bound for Europe, is torpedoed and sinks off the coast of Ireland by the German submarine U-77.
1941 - Hitler to Mussolini: Fight harder! - Adolf Hitler scolds his Axis partner, Benito Mussolini, for his troops' retreat in the face of British advances in Libya, demanding that the Duce command his forces to resist.
1960 - South Vietnam requests more support - The South Vietnamese government requests that Washington double U.S. Military Assistance and Advisory Group (MAAG-Vietnam) strength from 342 to 685. The advisory group was formed on November 1, 1955 to provide military assistance to South Vietnam. It had replaced U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group Indochina (MAAG-Indochina), which had been providing military assistance to "the forces of France and the Associated States in Indochina"
(Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam) in accordance with President Harry S. Truman's order of June 27, 1950.
1975 - North Vietnamese begin preparations for offensive - North Vietnamese Gen. Van Tien Dung departs for South Vietnam to take command of communist forces in preparation for a new offensive. In December 1974, the North Vietnamese 7th Division and the newly formed 3rd Division attacked Phuoc Long Province, north of Saigon. This attack represented an escalation in the "cease-fire war" that started shortly after the Paris Peace Accords were signed in 1973.
1989 - The last Soviet troops leave Kabul - In an important move signaling the close of the nearly decade-long Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan, the last Russian troops withdraw from the capital city of Kabul. Less than two weeks later, all Soviet troops departed Afghanistan entirely, ending what many observers referred to as Russia's "Vietnam."
Source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/
P. S. I was gone for two weeks, and I am disappointed that no one else could fill in during my absence.
:-x
February 5
1945: On the Eastern front, the Red Army approaches Elbing and Marienburg in East Prussia.
Source: http://www.feldgrau.com/february.html
1782 - Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.
1945 - World War II: GeneralDouglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
1968 - The Battle of Khe Sanh of the Vietnam War begins.
2003 - U.S. plan to invade Iraq: Colin Powell addresses the UN Security Council on Iraq. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_5
1980 - THE MAN CALLED INTREPID IS HONORED Hamilton Bermuda - Sir William Stephenson is awarded the Order of Canada; the ailing Winnipeg-born engineer pioneered digital wireless photo transmission. He worked for British intelligence during World War II under the code name Intrepid, and was the personal contact man between Churchill and Roosevelt. Source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Feb&day=05
1917 - Murray, VC - Captain H.W. Murray, 4th Division, originally from Launceston, Tasmania, wins the Victoria Cross at Stormy Trench north-east of Gueudecourt, France.
Source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1865 - Battle of Dabney's Mill (Hatcher's Run) - Union and Confederate forces around Petersburg, Virginia, begin a three-day battle that produces 3,000 casualties but ends with no significant advantage for either side.
1918 - U.S. steamship Tuscania is torpedoed and sinks - Anchor line steamship Tuscania, traveling as part of a British convoy and transporting over 2,000 American soldiers bound for Europe, is torpedoed and sinks off the coast of Ireland by the German submarine U-77.
1941 - Hitler to Mussolini: Fight harder! - Adolf Hitler scolds his Axis partner, Benito Mussolini, for his troops' retreat in the face of British advances in Libya, demanding that the Duce command his forces to resist.
1960 - South Vietnam requests more support - The South Vietnamese government requests that Washington double U.S. Military Assistance and Advisory Group (MAAG-Vietnam) strength from 342 to 685. The advisory group was formed on November 1, 1955 to provide military assistance to South Vietnam. It had replaced U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group Indochina (MAAG-Indochina), which had been providing military assistance to "the forces of France and the Associated States in Indochina"
(Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam) in accordance with President Harry S. Truman's order of June 27, 1950.
1975 - North Vietnamese begin preparations for offensive - North Vietnamese Gen. Van Tien Dung departs for South Vietnam to take command of communist forces in preparation for a new offensive. In December 1974, the North Vietnamese 7th Division and the newly formed 3rd Division attacked Phuoc Long Province, north of Saigon. This attack represented an escalation in the "cease-fire war" that started shortly after the Paris Peace Accords were signed in 1973.
1989 - The last Soviet troops leave Kabul - In an important move signaling the close of the nearly decade-long Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan, the last Russian troops withdraw from the capital city of Kabul. Less than two weeks later, all Soviet troops departed Afghanistan entirely, ending what many observers referred to as Russia's "Vietnam."
Source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/
P. S. I was gone for two weeks, and I am disappointed that no one else could fill in during my absence.
:-x
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tomtom22
Chief Engineer
Nothing for Australia
February 7
1942: The drive of the Afrikakorps toward Egypt and the Suez Canal comes to a halt before Tobruk.
1945: In East Prussia, Soviet attacks north of Königsberg are blocked with the help of naval gunfire by the cruisers Scheer and Lützow.
Source: http://www.feldgrau.com/february.html
1807 - Napoléon's French Empire begin fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at the Battle of Eylau in Eylau, Poland.
1842 - Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
1944 - World War II: In Anzio, Italy Nazi forces launch a counteroffensive.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_7
1945: Black Sea talks plan defeat of Germany - Plans are being drawn up by London, Washington and Moscow for the final phase of the war against Germany.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/7/
1862: Confederates order reinforcements to Fort Donelson - One day after the fall of Fort Henry on the Tennessee River, Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston, commander of Rebel forces in the west, orders 15,000 reinforcements to Fort Donelson. This fort lay on the Cumberland River just a few miles from Fort Henry. Johnston's decision turned out to be a mistake, as many of the troops were captured when the Fort Donelson fell to the Yankees on February 16.
1915: Winter Battle of the Masurian Lakes begins - In a blinding snowstorm, General Fritz von Below and Germany’s Eighth Army launch a surprise attack against the Russian lines just north of the Masurian Lakes on the Eastern Front, beginning the Winter Battle of the Masurian Lakes (also known as the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes).
1965: U.S. jets conduct retaliatory raids - As part of Operation Flaming Dart, 49 U.S. Navy jets from the 7th Fleet carriers Coral Sea and Hancock drop bombs and rockets on the barracks and staging areas at Dong Hoi, a guerrilla training camp in North Vietnam. Escorted by U.S. jets, a follow-up raid by South Vietnamese planes bombed a North Vietnamese military communications center.
1971: Operation Dewey Canyon II ends but U.S. units continue to provide support for South Vietnamese army operations in Laos. Operation Dewey Canyon II began on January 30 as the initial phase of Lam Son 719, the South Vietnamese invasion of Laos that was to commence on February 8. The purpose of the South Vietnamese operation was to interdict the Ho Chi Minh Trail, advance to Tchepone in Laos, and destroy the North Vietnamese supply dumps in the area.
Source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/
:rambo:
February 7
1942: The drive of the Afrikakorps toward Egypt and the Suez Canal comes to a halt before Tobruk.
1945: In East Prussia, Soviet attacks north of Königsberg are blocked with the help of naval gunfire by the cruisers Scheer and Lützow.
Source: http://www.feldgrau.com/february.html
1807 - Napoléon's French Empire begin fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at the Battle of Eylau in Eylau, Poland.
1842 - Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
1944 - World War II: In Anzio, Italy Nazi forces launch a counteroffensive.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_7
1945: Black Sea talks plan defeat of Germany - Plans are being drawn up by London, Washington and Moscow for the final phase of the war against Germany.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/7/
1862: Confederates order reinforcements to Fort Donelson - One day after the fall of Fort Henry on the Tennessee River, Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston, commander of Rebel forces in the west, orders 15,000 reinforcements to Fort Donelson. This fort lay on the Cumberland River just a few miles from Fort Henry. Johnston's decision turned out to be a mistake, as many of the troops were captured when the Fort Donelson fell to the Yankees on February 16.
1915: Winter Battle of the Masurian Lakes begins - In a blinding snowstorm, General Fritz von Below and Germany’s Eighth Army launch a surprise attack against the Russian lines just north of the Masurian Lakes on the Eastern Front, beginning the Winter Battle of the Masurian Lakes (also known as the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes).
1965: U.S. jets conduct retaliatory raids - As part of Operation Flaming Dart, 49 U.S. Navy jets from the 7th Fleet carriers Coral Sea and Hancock drop bombs and rockets on the barracks and staging areas at Dong Hoi, a guerrilla training camp in North Vietnam. Escorted by U.S. jets, a follow-up raid by South Vietnamese planes bombed a North Vietnamese military communications center.
1971: Operation Dewey Canyon II ends but U.S. units continue to provide support for South Vietnamese army operations in Laos. Operation Dewey Canyon II began on January 30 as the initial phase of Lam Son 719, the South Vietnamese invasion of Laos that was to commence on February 8. The purpose of the South Vietnamese operation was to interdict the Ho Chi Minh Trail, advance to Tchepone in Laos, and destroy the North Vietnamese supply dumps in the area.
Source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/
:rambo:
tomtom22
Chief Engineer
February 8
1941: The first convoy of the newly formed Afrikakorps under the command of Generaloberst Rommel leaves Naples for Tripoli in Libya.
1943: The Red Army recaptures Kursk.
1944: German roops evacuate Nikopol in the Ukraine.
1945: In the West, the Canadian First Army (Crerar) begins an offensive in the area of Nijmegen in Holland. Paraguay declares war on Germany. In the East, Soviet attacks in East Prussia, Pommerania and on the Oder front opposite Berlin continue with unabated ferocity.
Source: http://www.feldgrau.com/february.html
1942:Japanese invade Singapore - Singapore was believed to be an impregnable fortress but the Japanese advance from the Malayan Peninsula proved the falsity of this belief.
Source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1807 - Battle of Eylau - Napoleon defeats Russians under GeneralBenigssen.
1900 - British troops are defeated by Boers at Ladysmith, South Africa.
1904 - Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
1943 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal - United States forces defeat Japanese troops.
Source: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_8"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_8[/URL]
1777: Former POW Timothy Bigelow is named colonel - Just six months after his release as a prisoner-of-war, Major Timothy Bigelow becomes colonel of the 15th Massachusetts Colonial Line of the Continental Army.
1862: Battle of Roanoke Island - Union General Ambrose Burnside scores a major victory when he captures Roanoke Island in North Carolina. The victory was one of the first major Union victories of the war and it gave the Yankees control of the mouth of Albemarle Sound, a key Confederate bay that allowed the Union to threaten the Rebel capital of Richmond from the south.
1918: U.S. Army resumes publication of Stars and Stripes - The United States Army resumes publication of the military newsletter Stars and Stripes. Begun as a newsletter for Union soldiers during the American Civil War, Stars and Stripes was published weekly during World War I from February 8, 1918, until June 13, 1919. The newspaper was distributed to American soldiers dispersed across the Western Front to keep them unified and informed about the overall war effort and America’s part in it, as well as supply them with news from the home front.
1943: Britain's Indian Brigade begins guerrilla operations in Burma - Under the command of Major General Orde Wingate, the 77th Indian Brigade, also called the Chindits, launch guerrilla raids behind Japanese lines in Burma.
1962: MACV established - The Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV), headed by Gen. Paul D. Harkins, former U.S. Army Deputy Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific, is installed in Saigon as the United States reorganizes its military command in South Vietnam.
1971: Operation Lam Son 719 begins - South Vietnamese army forces invade southern Laos. Dubbed Operation Lam Son 719, the mission goal was to disrupt the communist supply and infiltration network along Route 9 in Laos, adjacent to the two northern provinces of South Vietnam.
Source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/
1941: The first convoy of the newly formed Afrikakorps under the command of Generaloberst Rommel leaves Naples for Tripoli in Libya.
1943: The Red Army recaptures Kursk.
1944: German roops evacuate Nikopol in the Ukraine.
1945: In the West, the Canadian First Army (Crerar) begins an offensive in the area of Nijmegen in Holland. Paraguay declares war on Germany. In the East, Soviet attacks in East Prussia, Pommerania and on the Oder front opposite Berlin continue with unabated ferocity.
Source: http://www.feldgrau.com/february.html
1942:Japanese invade Singapore - Singapore was believed to be an impregnable fortress but the Japanese advance from the Malayan Peninsula proved the falsity of this belief.
Source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1807 - Battle of Eylau - Napoleon defeats Russians under GeneralBenigssen.
1900 - British troops are defeated by Boers at Ladysmith, South Africa.
1904 - Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
1943 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal - United States forces defeat Japanese troops.
Source: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_8"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_8[/URL]
1777: Former POW Timothy Bigelow is named colonel - Just six months after his release as a prisoner-of-war, Major Timothy Bigelow becomes colonel of the 15th Massachusetts Colonial Line of the Continental Army.
1862: Battle of Roanoke Island - Union General Ambrose Burnside scores a major victory when he captures Roanoke Island in North Carolina. The victory was one of the first major Union victories of the war and it gave the Yankees control of the mouth of Albemarle Sound, a key Confederate bay that allowed the Union to threaten the Rebel capital of Richmond from the south.
1918: U.S. Army resumes publication of Stars and Stripes - The United States Army resumes publication of the military newsletter Stars and Stripes. Begun as a newsletter for Union soldiers during the American Civil War, Stars and Stripes was published weekly during World War I from February 8, 1918, until June 13, 1919. The newspaper was distributed to American soldiers dispersed across the Western Front to keep them unified and informed about the overall war effort and America’s part in it, as well as supply them with news from the home front.
1943: Britain's Indian Brigade begins guerrilla operations in Burma - Under the command of Major General Orde Wingate, the 77th Indian Brigade, also called the Chindits, launch guerrilla raids behind Japanese lines in Burma.
1962: MACV established - The Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV), headed by Gen. Paul D. Harkins, former U.S. Army Deputy Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific, is installed in Saigon as the United States reorganizes its military command in South Vietnam.
1971: Operation Lam Son 719 begins - South Vietnamese army forces invade southern Laos. Dubbed Operation Lam Son 719, the mission goal was to disrupt the communist supply and infiltration network along Route 9 in Laos, adjacent to the two northern provinces of South Vietnam.
Source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/
tomtom22
Chief Engineer
Lots of different stuff in ancient times!
February 10
1945: In the East, the attack by 2nd Belorussian Front (Rokossovsky) against the Pommernstellung is blocked by the German defenders. In Silesia, Liegnitz is captured by the 1st Ukrainian Front (Konev). In Hungary, the remnants of the defenders of Budapest give up and surrender.
Source: http://www.feldgrau.com/february.html
1962: Russia frees US spy plane pilot - American spy plane pilot Captain Francis "Gary" Powers has been freed from prison in the Soviet Union in exchange for a Russian spy jailed in the US.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/10/newsid_2731000/2731827.stm
1258 - Battle of Baghdad - Mongols overrun Baghdad, burning it to the ground and killing large numbers of citizens (estimates range from 10,000 to 800,000).
1763 - French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Canada to Great Britain.
1814 - Battle of Champaubert occurs.
1846 - Battle of Sobraon - British defeat Sikhs in final battle of 1st Anglo-Sikh War
Source: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_8"][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_10"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_10[/URL][/URL]
1944:End of Japanese resistance on the Houn Peninsula - Fighting in the Huon Peninsula lasted from August 1943 until mid-February 1944 and involved heavy fighting at such places as Lae, Finschhafen, Sattelberg, Shaggy Ridge and the Ramu Valley.
Source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1779: The Battle of Carr’s Fort - A force of more than 340 men from the South Carolina and Georgia militias, led by Colonel Andrew Pickens of South Carolina with Colonel John Dooly and Lt Colonel Elijah Clarke of Georgia, attack a group of approximately 200 Loyalists under the command of Colonel John Hamilton at Robert Carr’s Fort, in Wilkes County, Georgia.
1942: Japanese sub bombards Midway - A Japanese submarine launches a brutal attack on Midway, a coral atoll used as a U.S. Navy base. It was the fourth bombing of the atoll by Japanese ships since December 7.
1965: Viet Cong guerrillas blow up the U.S. barracks at Qui Nhon, 75 miles east of Pleiku on the central coast, with a 100-pound explosive charge under the building. A total of 23 U.S. personnel were killed, as well as two Viet Cong. In response to the attack, President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered a retaliatory air strike operation on North Vietnam called Flaming Dart II.
Source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/
February 10
1945: In the East, the attack by 2nd Belorussian Front (Rokossovsky) against the Pommernstellung is blocked by the German defenders. In Silesia, Liegnitz is captured by the 1st Ukrainian Front (Konev). In Hungary, the remnants of the defenders of Budapest give up and surrender.
Source: http://www.feldgrau.com/february.html
1962: Russia frees US spy plane pilot - American spy plane pilot Captain Francis "Gary" Powers has been freed from prison in the Soviet Union in exchange for a Russian spy jailed in the US.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/10/newsid_2731000/2731827.stm
1258 - Battle of Baghdad - Mongols overrun Baghdad, burning it to the ground and killing large numbers of citizens (estimates range from 10,000 to 800,000).
1763 - French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Canada to Great Britain.
1814 - Battle of Champaubert occurs.
1846 - Battle of Sobraon - British defeat Sikhs in final battle of 1st Anglo-Sikh War
Source: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_8"][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_10"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_10[/URL][/URL]
1944:End of Japanese resistance on the Houn Peninsula - Fighting in the Huon Peninsula lasted from August 1943 until mid-February 1944 and involved heavy fighting at such places as Lae, Finschhafen, Sattelberg, Shaggy Ridge and the Ramu Valley.
Source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1779: The Battle of Carr’s Fort - A force of more than 340 men from the South Carolina and Georgia militias, led by Colonel Andrew Pickens of South Carolina with Colonel John Dooly and Lt Colonel Elijah Clarke of Georgia, attack a group of approximately 200 Loyalists under the command of Colonel John Hamilton at Robert Carr’s Fort, in Wilkes County, Georgia.
1942: Japanese sub bombards Midway - A Japanese submarine launches a brutal attack on Midway, a coral atoll used as a U.S. Navy base. It was the fourth bombing of the atoll by Japanese ships since December 7.
1965: Viet Cong guerrillas blow up the U.S. barracks at Qui Nhon, 75 miles east of Pleiku on the central coast, with a 100-pound explosive charge under the building. A total of 23 U.S. personnel were killed, as well as two Viet Cong. In response to the attack, President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered a retaliatory air strike operation on North Vietnam called Flaming Dart II.
Source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/
PsychoArmykid
New Member
Here is for Febuary 12, 2006
President Clinton aquitted on Febuary 12, 1999
http://www.historychannel.com/today/
World War ll Rommel arrives in Libya North Africa Febuary 12, 1941
http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih.jsp?month=10272954&day=10272977&cat=10272951
-Psycho
President Clinton aquitted on Febuary 12, 1999
http://www.historychannel.com/today/
World War ll Rommel arrives in Libya North Africa Febuary 12, 1941
http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih.jsp?month=10272954&day=10272977&cat=10272951
-Psycho
tomtom22
Chief Engineer
February 13
1945: The RAF launches a heavy attack (over 800 bombers in two separate waves, which is followed the next day by 400 bombers of the US 8th Air Force) against Dresden that incinerates the inner city and kills between 150,000 and 200,000 civilians, including tens of thousands of refugees from the East and hundreds of Allied prisoners of war; it is by far the most deadly and devastating air raid of the Second World War. On the Eastern front in Pommerania, the Red Army captures Schneidemül.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/february.html
1945 - World War II: Soviet Union forces capture Budapest, Hungary from the Nazis.
1971 - Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
Source: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_8"][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_10"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_13[/URL][/URL]
1946:Main Australian contingent of BCOF sailed for Japan from Morotai -Australian personnel played a prominent role in the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan at the conclusion of the Second World War in the Pacific. They were allotted the devastated Hiroshima Prefecture on the island of Honshu.
1965:1st Australian SAS Squadron advance party departs for Borneo -The SAS served in Borneo during Confrontation to gather intelligence, conduct reconnaissance patrols and collect information on topography.
Source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1965: Johnson approves Operation Rolling Thunder - President Lyndon B. Johnson decides to undertake the sustained bombing of North Vietnam that he and his advisers have been contemplating for a year.
Source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/
1940: Russian troops capture forts on Karelia Isthmus.
1944: The allies halt the German attack around Cassino. The Italians in Cassino Monastery are warned that it will be bombed. Another British counter-offensive begins in Arakan, Burma.
1945: U.S. troops capture the last Japanese naval base and airfield on Luzon.
source: http://www.worldwar-2.net/timelines/
1945: The RAF launches a heavy attack (over 800 bombers in two separate waves, which is followed the next day by 400 bombers of the US 8th Air Force) against Dresden that incinerates the inner city and kills between 150,000 and 200,000 civilians, including tens of thousands of refugees from the East and hundreds of Allied prisoners of war; it is by far the most deadly and devastating air raid of the Second World War. On the Eastern front in Pommerania, the Red Army captures Schneidemül.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/february.html
1945 - World War II: Soviet Union forces capture Budapest, Hungary from the Nazis.
1971 - Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
Source: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_8"][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_10"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_13[/URL][/URL]
1946:Main Australian contingent of BCOF sailed for Japan from Morotai -Australian personnel played a prominent role in the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan at the conclusion of the Second World War in the Pacific. They were allotted the devastated Hiroshima Prefecture on the island of Honshu.
1965:1st Australian SAS Squadron advance party departs for Borneo -The SAS served in Borneo during Confrontation to gather intelligence, conduct reconnaissance patrols and collect information on topography.
Source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1965: Johnson approves Operation Rolling Thunder - President Lyndon B. Johnson decides to undertake the sustained bombing of North Vietnam that he and his advisers have been contemplating for a year.
Source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/
1940: Russian troops capture forts on Karelia Isthmus.
1944: The allies halt the German attack around Cassino. The Italians in Cassino Monastery are warned that it will be bombed. Another British counter-offensive begins in Arakan, Burma.
1945: U.S. troops capture the last Japanese naval base and airfield on Luzon.
source: http://www.worldwar-2.net/timelines/
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tomtom22
Chief Engineer
All kinds of history
February 14
1943: German troops of Heeresgruppe Don (von Manstein) evacuate Rostov and withdraw to the old Mius line. In Tunisia, 5.Panzerarmee (von Arnim) forces the retreat of the US 2nd Corps (Fredenhall) in the battle of Kasserine Pass.
1945: On the Eastern front in Silesia, the Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front (Konev) encircles Breslau which has been declared a fortress under the command of Gauleiter Hanke. Uruguay declares war against Germany.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/february.html
1900: The relief of Kimberley, Orange Free State, South Africa, was a major operation undertaken to break the Boer siege of the town. 500 Australians of the Queensland Mounted Infantry, New South Wales Mounted Rifles and New South Wales Lancers were involved in the breaking of the siege as part of the cavalry division commanded by Lieutenant-General John French.
1942: SS Vyner Brooke sunk. The Vyner Brooke, carrying 65 Australian nurses and other refugees from Singapore, was sunk by Japanese aircraft one day after leaving the island. The survivors made their way to Banka Island where one group of nurses were massacred by their Japanese captors. Only Sister Vivian Bullwinkel survived the massacre.
Source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1797 - John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent & Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson led the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in the Battle of Cape St. Vincent near Gibraltar.
1831 - Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.
1879 - The War of the Pacific breaks out when Chilean armed forces occupy the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
1900 - Second Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.
1944 - World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java.
1945 - Bombing of Dresden in World War II: The BritishRoyal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force begin fire-bombingDresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.
1941: Kurmuk near the Ethiopian border in Sudan is recaptured by British forces. Leading elements of the German 5th Light Division arrive at Tripoli and are immediately moved up to Sirte to take up defensive positions.
1942: The Japanese being their invasion of Sumatra with airborne landings at Palembang.
1944: The Americans announce that the Japanese remaining in Solomon Islands are now trapped. Eisenhower sets up the SHAEF HQ in Britain.
1945: The British Indian 4th Corps begins to cross Irrawaddy and strike into the Japanese rear. The first use of napalm is made in Burma. Canadian and British troops reach the Rhine, 40 miles Northwest of Duisberg.
Source: http://www.worldwar-2.net/timelines/
1779: Patriots defeat Loyalists at Kettle Creek - A Patriot militia force of 340 led by Colonel Andrew Pickens of South Carolina with Colonel John Dooly and Lieutenant Colonel Elijah Clarke of Georgia defeats a larger force of 700 Loyalist militia commanded by Colonel James Boyd on this day in 1779 at Kettle Creek, Georgia.
1864: Sherman enters Meridian, Mississippi - Union General William T. Sherman enters Meridian, Mississippi, during a winter campaign that served as a precursor to Sherman's "March to the Sea." This often-overlooked campaign was the first attempt by the Union at total warfare, a strike aimed not just at military objectives but also at the will of the southern people.
Source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/
February 14
1943: German troops of Heeresgruppe Don (von Manstein) evacuate Rostov and withdraw to the old Mius line. In Tunisia, 5.Panzerarmee (von Arnim) forces the retreat of the US 2nd Corps (Fredenhall) in the battle of Kasserine Pass.
1945: On the Eastern front in Silesia, the Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front (Konev) encircles Breslau which has been declared a fortress under the command of Gauleiter Hanke. Uruguay declares war against Germany.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/february.html
1900: The relief of Kimberley, Orange Free State, South Africa, was a major operation undertaken to break the Boer siege of the town. 500 Australians of the Queensland Mounted Infantry, New South Wales Mounted Rifles and New South Wales Lancers were involved in the breaking of the siege as part of the cavalry division commanded by Lieutenant-General John French.
1942: SS Vyner Brooke sunk. The Vyner Brooke, carrying 65 Australian nurses and other refugees from Singapore, was sunk by Japanese aircraft one day after leaving the island. The survivors made their way to Banka Island where one group of nurses were massacred by their Japanese captors. Only Sister Vivian Bullwinkel survived the massacre.
Source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp
1797 - John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent & Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson led the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in the Battle of Cape St. Vincent near Gibraltar.
1831 - Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.
1879 - The War of the Pacific breaks out when Chilean armed forces occupy the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
1900 - Second Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.
1944 - World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java.
1945 - Bombing of Dresden in World War II: The BritishRoyal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force begin fire-bombingDresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.
1941: Kurmuk near the Ethiopian border in Sudan is recaptured by British forces. Leading elements of the German 5th Light Division arrive at Tripoli and are immediately moved up to Sirte to take up defensive positions.
1942: The Japanese being their invasion of Sumatra with airborne landings at Palembang.
1944: The Americans announce that the Japanese remaining in Solomon Islands are now trapped. Eisenhower sets up the SHAEF HQ in Britain.
1945: The British Indian 4th Corps begins to cross Irrawaddy and strike into the Japanese rear. The first use of napalm is made in Burma. Canadian and British troops reach the Rhine, 40 miles Northwest of Duisberg.
Source: http://www.worldwar-2.net/timelines/
1779: Patriots defeat Loyalists at Kettle Creek - A Patriot militia force of 340 led by Colonel Andrew Pickens of South Carolina with Colonel John Dooly and Lieutenant Colonel Elijah Clarke of Georgia defeats a larger force of 700 Loyalist militia commanded by Colonel James Boyd on this day in 1779 at Kettle Creek, Georgia.
1864: Sherman enters Meridian, Mississippi - Union General William T. Sherman enters Meridian, Mississippi, during a winter campaign that served as a precursor to Sherman's "March to the Sea." This often-overlooked campaign was the first attempt by the Union at total warfare, a strike aimed not just at military objectives but also at the will of the southern people.
Source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/
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