This day in military history..

May 25
1085 Castille retakes Toledo from the Moors
1798 HMS Braak sinks off Cape Henlopen
1862 Battle of Winchester
1864 Battle of New Hope Church begins
1865 20 tons of gunpowder explode in Mobile, Ala munitions depot causing 300 casulties
1940 R.N. Trawler HMS Charles Boyes sunk by mine off Caister-on-Sea. depot Ship HMS Mashobira bombed & beached off Harstad, later scuttled. French Minesweepers La Jeannine & Trombe II bombed/sunk off Dunkerque. Polish sub Orzel sunk by mine in North Sea
1941 Italian Troopship Conte Rosso sunk by HMS Upholder, 1291 of 2729 onboard lost. HMS Grimsby bombed/sunk off Tobruk
1942 IJN Sub Tender Asahi sunk by USS Salmon in South China Sea
1945 Kamakazes sink Destroyer Escort USS Bates & LSM-25, damages severly Destroyer USS Barry, she is used as Kamakaze bait @ Kerama Retto & is sunk June 21st.
1952 USS Iowa bombards Chongjin
1973 The Captain of the Greek Destroyer Velos Mutinys against the Greek Govt while on a NATO excercise off Italy.
1982 HMS Coventry & SS Atlantic Conveyor sunk & HMS Broadsword damaged in airstrikes.
 
May 26
451 Battle of Avarayr
1644 Battle of Montijo
1864 Battle of Dallas, Ga. begins
1869 Pres. Grant visits USS Constitution, 1st Presidential visit for the ship.
1900 Battle of Palonegro ends
1940 Battle of Dunkirk begins. Crusier HMS Cerlew sunk off Narvik by Ju-88s. French Minesweeper Dijonnais bombed/sunk @ Dunkerque
1942 Battle of Bir Hachiem begins
 
May 27
927 Battle of the Bosnian Highlands
1798 Battle of Oulart Hill
1799 Battle of Winterthur
1813 Battle of Ft. George, Canada. US captures Ft. George & British abandon Ft. Erie
1860 Garibaldi attacks Palermo
1862 1st Battle of Hanover Courthouse
1863 Siege of Port Hudson: Union attacks fails with heavy losses. Siege of Vicksburg: US fleet exchanges fire with shore batteries, Ironclad USS Cincinnati sunk. Gunboat CSS Chattahoochie sunk by boiler explosion on the Apalachicola River @ Blountstown, Fla. Raised & repaired.
1864 Battle of Pickett's Mills, Ga
1905 Battle of Tsushima begins
1919 US Navy NC-4 finishes 1st transAtlantic flight
1940 French Minesweeper La Majo bombed/sunk off Dunkerque. R.N. Trawler HMS Ocean Reward sunk with all hands in a collision.
1941 Bismarck sunk by R.N. R.N. trawler HMS Evesham bombed/sunk off Great Yarmouth. R.N. Trawlers HMS Syvern & Thorbryn bombed/sunk off Tobruk
1942 CAM equipped SS Empire Lawrence bombed/sunk east of Bear Island, Norway. Minesweeper HMS Fitzroy sunk by mine off Great Yarmouth.
1958 1st flight F-4 Phantom II
1965 1st bombardment of V.C. by US Navy ships
 
May 28
585 B.C. Battle of the Eclipse
1588 The Spanish Armada's 130 ships start to leave port for England, last won't depart untill the 30th.
1672 naval Battle of Solebay
1754 Battle of Jumonville Glen, Pa.
1813 USS Essex & her Prize, capture 5 British whalers
1905 Battle of Tsushima ends
1917 US Navy's 1st underway refueling takes place, USS Maumee refuels 6 Destroyers
1940 Belgium surrenders. Allies capture Narvik from the Germans. Minesweeper Brighton Belle strikes an underwater wreck & & sinks off Dunkirk. R.N. Trawler HMS Thomas Bartlett sunk by mine off Calais, R.N. trawler HMS Thuringia sunk by mine off Belgium, R.N. Trawler HMS Ocean Reward sunk in collision off Dover. French Minesweeper Margarite Rose bombed/sunk off Dunkerque
1941 R.N. Motor Launch 1030 lost after departing Suda Bay. Destroyer HMS Mashona bombed/sunk off Ireland
1942 KN Minesweeper 174 sunk by mine west of Dunkirk
1943 IJN Seaplane Tender Kamikawa Maru damaged in Bismarck Sea by USS Scamp
1944 Troopship Snasei Maru sunk by USS Sealion off Tsushima
1945 Destroyer USS Drexler sunk by Kamikazes off Okinawa
1982 Battle of Goose Green begins
 
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May 29
363 Battle of Ctesiphon
1453 Siege of Constantinople ends, end of Byzentine Empire
1780 Battle of Waxhaws
1781 USS Alliance captures HMS Atalanta & HMS Trepassy off Nova Scotia
1861 Union troops occupy Newport News
1918 Battle of Sardarabad ends
1940 Sloop HMS Bideford damaged by bombing & beached @ Dunkirk, later towed to U.K., repaired & returned to service. R.N. Trawlers HMS Calvi & Polly Johnson, Destroyer HMS Grenade, Minesweeper HMS Waverly all bombed/sunk off Dunkirk. Anti-Aircraft ship HMS Crested Eagle bombed/beached @ Dunkirk. Destroyer HMS Wakefall sunk by E-Boats in North Sea. Destroyer HMS Montrose damaged in collision off Calais. KM Flackship VP-1109 sunk by mine off Haugasund, Norway. French Minesweeper Joseph Marie bombed/sunk off Dunkirque
1941 Destroyer HMS Imperial Bombed, scuttled off Crete. Destroyer HMS Hereward sunk by Ju-87s off Crete. R.N. trawler HMS Sindonis bombed/sunk @ Tobruk
1944 CVE USS Block Island sunk by U-549, then U-549 is sunk by Destroyers USS Ahrens & Eugene E. Elmore off the Canary Islands
1958 sub USS Stickleback sunk in collision by Destroyer Escort USS Silverstien during an excercise off Oahu
 
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May 30
1434 Battle of Lipany
1813 British attack US Navy base @ Sacket's Harbor, Lake Ontario, NY
1814 US gunboats capture 3 British ships on Lake Ontario
1862 Confederates evacuate, & Union troops occupy, Corinth
1940 French Destroyer Bourrasque is damaged by mine & then sunk by artilley fire off Nieuwport, Belgium. Boom vessel HMS Cambrian sunk by mine off Spithead. Armed Boarding Vessel HMS King Orry sunk by artillery off Dunkirk. KM Flackship V-1109 sunk off Norway by HMS Narwhal.
1941 R.N. Oiler Cairndale sunk in the Atlantic by Italian sub Guglielmo Marconi
1942 Transport Atsuta Maru sunk by USS Pompano
1943 Sub HMS Untamed sinks in the Firth of Clyde, raised, repaired & returned to service as HMS Vitality
 
May 31
1223 Battle of the Kalka River
1862 Battle of Fair Oaks-Seven Pines begins
1864 Battle of Cold Harbor begins
1900 Sailors & Marines from the US, UK, France, Russia, Italy & Japan arrive @ Peking during the Boxer Rebellion
1916 Battle of Jutland
1940 R.N. Trawler HMS St. Achillaeus sunk by mine off Dunkirk. Minesweeper HMS Devonia bombed off Dunkirk, beached & abandonded @ La Panne, Belgium. Tender HMS Grive bombed & then sunk by a mine with all hands off Dunkirk. French Destroyer Sirocco sunk by E-Boats S-23 & 26. U-13 sunk in North sea by HMS Weston.
1941 Anglo-Iraq War ends
1942 Landing Ship HMS Dinsdale sunk by Italian sub Comandante Cappellini off Pernambuco, Brazil. US Army Transport "Jack" sunk by U-558 south of Haiti. IJN midget sub attack on Sydney Harbor: M-24 sinks HMAS Kuttabul, all 3 Midget subs M-14,21 & 24 are sunk with all hands.
1944 IJN patrol/escort ship Ishigaki sunk by USS Herring
 
June 1
1204 King Philip Augustis captures Rouen
1298 Battle of Turaida
1648 Battle of Maidstone
1666 naval Battle of the four days begins
1679 Battle of Drumclog
1794 naval 3rd Battle of Ushant
1813 HMS Shannon captures USS Chesapeake "Don't give up the ship"
1862 Battle of Fair Oaks-Seven Pines ends
1864 Battle of Cold Harbor begins
1871 US Sailors & Marines capture 5 forts in Korea
1918 Battle of Belleau Wood begins
1940 R.N. trawler HMS Argylshire sunk by E-Boat S-35, & Trawler HMS Stella Dorado by S-34 off Dunkirk. R.N. Trawler HMS Cavan sunk by artillery fire off Dunkirk. Trawler HMS Slasher bombed/sunk in North Sea. Destroyer HMS Havant bombed by Ju-87s off Dunkirk, scuttled. Destroyer HMS Basilisk sunk by Ju-87s in the Channel. Minesweeper HMS Brighton Queen sunk by artillery off Dunkirk. Destroyer HMS Kieth bombed/sunk in North Sea. Minesweeper HMS Skipjack bombed/sunk off De Panne. Gunboat HMS Mosquito bombed/sunk in North Sea. Troopship HMS Orford bombed & beached @ Marseilles. French Minesweepers La Mousaillon & Denis Papin bombed/sunk off Dunkerque. Minesweeper Venus bombed/sunk off Gravelines by Ju-87s. Destroyer Foudroyant bombed/sunk off Dunkerque.
1941 Battle of Crete ends. HMS Calcutta sunk by Ju-88s north of Alexandria
1944 USS Herring sunk by shore batteries @ Matsuwa. Kuril Islands
 
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June 2
455 Sack of Rome by the Vandals begins
1098 1st Siege of Antioch ends
1763 Chippewas capture Ft. Michilimackinac
1865 Gen. Kirby Smith surrenders CS Army forces west of the Mississippi
1940 R.N. trawler HMS Blackburn Rovers sunk by mine, off North Foreland, Kent. R. N. trawler HMS Westella sunk by mine while rescuing survivors from Blackburn Rovers. R.N. Hospital Ship Paris bombed/sunk off Dunkirk.
1941 R.N. Trawler HMS Kos XXII bombed/sunk in eastern Med. CAM ship Micheal E sunk by U-108 in the Atlantic. U-147 sunk off Ireland
1943 U-202 sunk by HMS Starling. U-462 by a Halifax & 3 R.N. ships
 
June 3
1665 naval Battle of Lowestof
1785 Last ship of the Continental Navy, Frigate USS Alliance, ordered to be sold. No US Navy ships authorised again untill 1794.
1805 French/Spanish naval force captures Diamond Rock from the English
1861 Battle of Phillippi
1865 Ironclad CSS Missouri surrenders on the Red River
1940 Hospital ship HMAS Gourko sunk by mine off Dunkirk. French Patrol Boat Purfina sunk by Mine off Le Harve
1942 Dutch Harbor, Alaska air raid begins. R. N. trawler HMS Cocker sunk off Egypt by E-Boat S-57
1969 HMAS Melbourne cuts USS Frank E. Evans in half
 
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June 4
1615 Siege of Osaka ends
1666 naval Four Days Battle ends
1794 British capture Port-au-Prince
1859 Battle of Magenta
1916 Russia begins the Brusilov Offensive
1934 USS Ranger, 1st purpose desgned Carrier, is Commissioned
1940 Battle of Dunkirk & the Dunkirk Evacuation ends. French Minesweeper Emil Deschamps sunk by mine off Foreness Point, Kent
1941 Minelayer HMS Van Meerlant sunk by mine off the Isle of Sheppey
1942 Dutch Harbor Air Raid ends. Battle of Midway begins. IJN Carriers Soryu, & Kaga sunk, Hiryu & Akagi heavily damaged.
1943 US Sub Chaser PC-456 sunk by underwater explosion in the Med.
1944 Allies capture Rome. A Task Force led by USS Guadalcanal captures U-505, 1st capture @ sea of enemy vessel since the 1800s. HMS LCT-2498 founders in the English Channel.
 
June 5
1284 Battle of the Gulf of Naples
1798 Battle of New Ross
1829 HMS Pickle captures armed Slaver Valadora off Cuba
1864 Battle of Piedmont, Va.
1900 British capture Pretoria
1940 KM Minesweeper M 11 sunk by mine off Jaederen, Norway
1941 R.N. Trawler HMS Ash sunk by mine in Thames estuary. Trawler HMS Lavinia bombed/sunk @ Portland. Italian gunboat Valoroso sunk in the Med by HMS Triumph
1942 US declares War on Hungary, Bulgaria & Romania. IJN carriers Hiryu & Akagi sunk
1943 U-217 sunk by Avengers from USS Bogue.
 
June 6
1513 Battle of Navara
1813 Battle of Stony creek
1862 naval Battle of Memphis.
1882 Battle of Embabo
1940 HMS Carinthia sunk west of Ireland by U-46
1942 Battle of Midway: I-168 sinks Destroyer USS Hammann & fatally damages the damaged Carrier USS Yorktown. US carrier planes sink Cruiser Mikuma
1944 D-Day, Battle of Normandy begins. Battleship HMS Centurion sunk as breakwater for a Mulberry Harbor. Destroyer USS Corry sunk by shore batteries & USS Meridith sunk by mine, both off Utah Beach. Norwiegan Destroyer Svenner sunk off Sword Beach by E-Boats. IJN Destroyer Minazuki sunk by USS Harder in the Sibutu Channel
1971 Battle of Long Khanh begins
1982 Israel invades Lebanon.
 
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June 7
1099 Siege of Jeruselem begins
1420 Venice captures Udine
1777 HMS Fox is captured by USS Hancock & Boston
1880 Battle of Arica
1917 Battle of Messines begins
1941 R.N. Examination Vessel No. 10 sunk by mine @ Milford Haven
1942 Japanese occupy Kiska. Battle of Midway ends, previously damaged USS Yorktown sinks
1944 Transport USS Susan B. Anthony & U.S. Army Transport Francis C. Harrington sunk by mines off Normandy. IJN Destoyer Hayanumi sunk by USS Harder in the Sibutu Passage
1971 Battle of Long Khanh ends
1981 Isreali Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq reactor
 
June 8
218 Battle of Antioch
1776 Battle of Trois-Rivieres, Canada
1814 1st Battle of St. Leonard Creek
1830 USS Vincennes becomes the 1st US warship to circumnavigate the globe
1862 Battle of Cross Keys. Battle of Port republic begins
1928 KMT captures Peking
1940 Carrier HMS Glorious & escorting Destroyers HMS Acasta & Ardent sunk by Gneisenau & Sharnhorst, & Adm Hipper & 4 destroyers sink R.N. Trawler HMS Juniper & troopship HMS Orama, all in the Norweigan Sea
1941 Allies invade Syria & Lebanon. R.N. trawler HMS Cor Jeso bombed/sunk off Alnmouth
1942 IJN subs I-21 & 24 shell Sydney & Newcastle
1943 IJN Battleship Mutsu destroyed by internal explosion
1944 IJN Destroyer Harusame bombed/sunk by USAAF B-25s off Manokwari, New Guinea, & Destroyer Kazagumo sunk by USS Hake in Davao Gulf. Destroyer USS Glennon damaged by mine off Quineville, France
1945 IJN landing craft Hakusa sunk by USS Cobia in Gulf of Siam.
1967 USS Liberty Incident
1982 Arg. air strikes damage Frigate HMS Plymouth & Troopship Sir Tristan & damage Sir Galahad beyond repair, & sank an LCU.
 
June 9
721 Battle of Toulouse
1667 Raid on the Medway begins
1772 HMS Gaspee runs aground & is burned by Colonials @ Namquid Point, R.I.
1798 2nd Battle of Arklow. Battle of Saintfields
1813 US troops abandon Ft. Erie
1862 Battle of Port Republic ends
1863 Battle of Brandy Station
1864 An attack by Gen. Butler on Petersburg is repulsed
1940 R.N. Trawler Dewey Eve is sunk by a mine off Lyness, Orkney Islands. French Minesweepers Madeleine Louise & Notre Dame des Dunes bombed/sunk off Dunkirk. KM flackship V-801 sunk by mine off The Netherlands.
1942 Free French Corvette Mimosa sunk by U-124 in the Atlantic
1944 USS Glennon, damaged by a mine on the 8th, is further damaged by shore batteries. IJN Destroyer Matsukaze sunk by USS Swordfish off Chichi Jima, & Destroyer Tanikaze sunk by USS Harder in the Sibutu Passage
 
June 10
1190 Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph leading an army to Jeruselem during the 3rd Crusade
1619 Battle of Zablat
1719 Battle of Glen Shiel
1861 Battle of Big Bethel
1864 Battle of Brice's Crossroads
1871 US Marines attack forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea
1898 US Marines land in Cuba
1918 Italian torpedo boat sinks Austro-Hungarian Battleship Szent Istvan
1940 Norway surrenders. Norwegian sub B-3 suffers a battery explosion & is scuttled to prevent capture in Gavlefiord. Armed Boarding Vessel HMS Van Dyck bombed/sunk off Andenes, Norway
1941 Sloop HMS Pintail sunk by mine in Humber estuary
1942 US Army Transport Merrimack sunk by U-107 off Cozumel
1943 KM Auxiliary Birka sunk by mine off Trondheim
1944 USS Glennon sinks from previously inflicted damage off Utah Beach
1945 Australian troops land in Brunei. IJN sub I-222 sunk by USS Skate in Sea of Japan. USS William D. Porter sunk by a Kamakaze.
 
June 11
1429 Battle of Jargeau begins
1775 naval Battle of Machias begins
1864 Battle of Travilian Station
1938 Battle of Wuhan begins
1940 Troopship HMS Bruges bombed/beached @ Le Harve. French Minesweeper La Bretonniere scuttled @ Le Harve, & Patrol Boat Patrice II sunk by artilley fire off Fecamp
1943 Corvette HMAS Wallaroo sunk in collision with US freighter off Fremantle
1944 US LST-496 sunk by mine off Normandy
 
June 12
1653 Battle of Gabbard begins
1418 Bergundians take Paris
1429 Battle of Jargeau ends
1864 Battle of Travilian Station ends. Cold Harbor fighting ends
1940 Cruiser HMS Calypso sunk by Italian Sub Bagnolini south of crete. R.N. Trawler HMS Sisapon sunk by mine off Felixtowe. French sloop Cerans & Minesweeper Granville sunk in English Channel. Patrol Vessel Etienne Rimbert scuttled @ Dieppe. Italian Gunboat Giovanni Berta sunk off Tobruk by R.N.
1941 Italian Navy Tawler Carlo Forte sunk by explosion in the Med.
1942 Destroyer HMS Grove sunk by U-77 off Egypt
1943 U-118 sunk by aircraft from USS Bogue
1944 US Carrier Raid on the Marianas begins. US Paratroopers capture Carentan. Sub HMS Sickle sunk by mine in the Ionian Sea off Kythira, Greece
 
June 13
1653 Battle of Gabbard ends
1862 2nd Battle of Winchester begins
1881 USS Jeannette crushed by ice in the Arctic Sea
1940 R.N. Trawler HMS Ocean Sunlight sunk by mine off Seaford. Armed Merchant cruiser HMS Scotstoan sunk west of the Outer Hebrides by U-25. Sub HMS Odin depth carged by Italian destroyer Strale, rammed & sunk by Destroyer Baleno. French Minesweeper Marthe Roland & Harbor Defence Vessel Reines des Flots scuttled @ Dieppe.
1941 R.N. Trawler HMS King Henry bombed/sunk @ Lowestoft
1942 Troopship Konan Maru sunk by USS Sargo off Yap. Soviet sub Shch-405 sunk by mine in Gulf of Finland
1943 USCG Cutter Escanaba sunk by an explosion off Greenland. IJN sub I-81 shelled/sunk by USS Frazier off Attu
1944 Destroyer HMS Boadicea sunk by Aircraft off Portland
1952 Soviet Mig shoots down Swedish DC-3
1978 Israel withdraws from Lebanon
 
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