This day in military history..

June 14
1285 naval Battle of Chuong Duong
1645 Battle of Naseby
1775 Continental Army est.(Birth of the US Army)
1800 Battle of Marengo
1830 France invades Algiers
1940 R.N. Trawler HMS Myrtle sunk by mine off Kent with all hands
1942 Destroyer HMS Hasty torpedoed/damaged by E-Boat S-55 off Serte, scuttled next day
1945 Battle of Bessang Pass ends
1982 Falklands War ends
 
June 15
1184 naval Battle of Fimreite
1219 Battle of Lyndanisse
1389 Battle of Kosovo
1775 Rhode Island Navy Sloop Katy captures sloop Diana, Tender to a R.N. warship
1863 2nd Battle of Winchester ends
1864 2nd Battle of Petersburg begins
1913 Battle of Bud Bagsak ends
1940 Operation Ariel, evacuation of western France, begins. Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Andania sunk by KM sub U-A off Reykjavik. Italian sub Italia runs aground in the Red Sea(destroyed by HMS Kandahar, Kingston & HMAS Leander on the 27th). French sub Morse sunk by mine off Tunesia
1942 Destroyer HMS Airdale damaged by Ju-87s south of Crete, scuttled next day. Destroyer HMS Bedouin damaged by Italian Cruisers & torpedoed/sunk by aircraft off Pantelleria. R.N. Trawler HMS Kingston Ceylonite sunk & Destroyer USS Bainbridge damaged by mines in Chesapeake Bay. Destroyer HMAS Nester damaged by Italian aircraft off Crete, scuttled next day. R.N. Fleet Auxilary Tanker Slemdal sunk by U-552.
1943 Soviet Minesweeper BTSC-411 Zashchitnik sunk by U24 in the Black Sea. U-860 sunk by aircraft from USS Solomons.
1944 US invades Saipan. IJN sub RO-44 shelled/sunk by Destroyer Escort Burden R. Hastings, R-114 sunk by Destroyers USS Melvin & Wadleigh off Tinian. Destroyer Shiraysuyu sunk in collision with Seiyo Maru off Mindanao
 
June 16
1487 Battle of Stokes Field
1745 British capture Cape Breton Island. British capture the Louisborg Fortress
1746 Battle of Piacenza
1755 French surrender Ft. Beavsejour
1779 Siege of Gibraltar begins
1832 1st Battle of Kellogg's Grove
1815 Battle of Ligny. Battle of Quatre Bras
1858 Battle of Morar
1862 Battle of Secessionville
1864 Union troops bottled up @ Burmuda Hundred attack & capture the CS siege lines, but are forced back by a counter-attack.
1898 US Navy bombards Santiago, Cuba
1940 Sub HMS Grampus sunk by Italian Destroyers off Sicily.
1941 Vichy French Destroyer Chevalier Paul sunk by Fleet air Arm Swordfish off Latakia, Syria
1942 Cruiser HMS Hermione sunk by U-205 south of Crete. Polish Destroyer Kujawiak sunk by mine off Malta
1945 Destroyer USS Twiggs sunk by Kamakaze & aireal torpedo off Okinawa
 
June 17
1497 Battle of Depford Bridge
1775 Battle of Bunker Hill
1813 HMS Narcissus captures US Revenue Cutter "Surveyor" in the York River, Va.
1861 Battle of Vienna, Va
1862 Battle of St. Charles, Mo Union troops captures CS batteries after they burst the boiler of Gunboat USS Mound City
1863 Monitors USS Weehawken & Nahant defeat/capture Ironclad CSS Atlanta.
1865 Indians surprise 115 Union Cavalry on the Great Plains & capture their horses.
1870 USS Mohican burns Mexican Pirate ship "Forward"
1876 Battle of the Rosebud
1877 Battle of White Bird Canyon
1940 Soviets occupy Latvia, Lithuania & Estonia. Troopship HMS Lancastria sunk by Ju-88s off St. Nazaire. R.N. Trawler HMS Murmansk run aground & abandond @ Brest, salvaged by KM & served as KFK-16. Italian sub Provana rammed/sunk by French Sloop La Curieuse. French Minesweeper Ingenieur Riebell scuttled @ Brest, salvaged by KM & used as Patrol Vessel Roche Noire. U-99 bombed/sunk in error @ Kiel, raised & put back in service
1942 Destroyer HMS Wild Swan sunk by Ju-88s in Bay of Biscay
1943 US Subchaser SC -740 wrecked on Great Barrier Reef.
 
June 18
1053 Battle of Cavitate
1429 Battle of Patay
1757 Battle of Kolin
1778 British evacuate Philidelphia
1812 War of 1812 begins
1815 Battle of Waterloo
1864 2nd Battle of Petersburg ends. Siege of Petersburg begins
1940 French subs Achille, Agosta, Quessant & Pastuer, Minesweeper Alex de Tocqueville, Patrol ship Movette, unfinished Battleship Clemenceau, & Destroyer Cyclone, damaged by E Boat S-55, all scuttled @ Brest. Gunboat Enseigne Henry, Minesweepers Kersroise & Pluvoise, Navy tug La Valette, Navy water tanker Ondine all scuttled @ Lorient. Minesweeper Gaulois scuttled @ St. Servan. Minesweeper Marquitta, Navy tug Coury scuttled @ Cherbourg, Gunboat Vauquois damaged by mine off Le Conquet & scuttled. KM minesweeper M-5 sunk by mine in North Sea
1941 U-138 sunk by HMS Fearless & Faulknor off Cape Trafalgar
1945 USS Bonefish sunk by IJN off Honshu. US Minesweeper YMS-50 damaged by mine & scuttled off Balikipapan
 
June 19
1179 Battle of Kalvskinnet
1306 Battle of Methven
1821 Battle of Dragashani
1864 USS Kearsarge sinks CSS Alabama off Cherbourg
1940 French subs Le Martinique & Roland Morillot scuttled @ Cherbourg. Armed Merchant Cruiser Mexique sunk by mine off Le Verdon-sur-Mer. Sub HMS Orpheus sunk by Italian Destroyer Turbine north of Tobruk. KM Minesweeper M-1802 sunk by mine in North Sea.
1942 US sub S-27 wrecked on Amchitka Island
1944 Battle of the Philippine Sea Begins: Carrier Shokaku sunk by USS Cavala & Taiho sunk by USS Albacore. Sub I-184 sunk by aircraft from USS Suwannee. US Navy tug ATR-15 wrecked @ Normandy. LST-527 sunk by mine off Normandy
 
June 20
451 Battle of Chalons
1622 Battle of Macau
1631 Baltimore, Ireland sacked by Algerian Pirates
1756 British troops held in the "Black hole of Calcutta".
1783 naval Battle of Cuddalore
1813 HMS Junon, Narcissus & Barrossa engage 15 US Gunboats @ Newport News
1895 Kiel canal opens
1898 US captures Guam
1900 Siege of the Peking Legation Quarter begins
1913 Ens. Billingsley becomes 1st US Naval Aviator killed (in an accident)
1940 Italian sub Diamante sunk by sub HMS Parthian
1941 US sub 0-9 founders off Portmouth, N.H.
1943 Troopship Shojin Maru sunk by USS Seawolf in South China Sea
1944 Battle of the Philippine Sea ends: Carrier Hiyo sunk by aircraft from USS Belleau Wood
 
June 21
217 B.C. Battle of Lake Trasimene
1529 Battle of Landria
1798 Battle of Vinigar Hill
1824 Egyptians capture Psara
1864 1st Battle of the Weldon Railroad begins
1919 High Seas Fleet scuttled @ Scapa Flow
1940 German captured ex-Dutch Coast Defence Vessel Vliereede sunk by RAF at Den Helder, raised & repaired as nonself propelled stationary Flak battery named Ariadne. R.N. Trawler HMS Charde sinks @ Plymouth. Q Ship HMS Prunella sunk by U-28 in Celtic Sea. French Patrol Vessel Mercedita damaged by mine & beached at Le Verdon sur Mer. E-Boats S-21 & 23 sunk by mines off Calais, S-21 raised, Repaired & returned to service
1942 R.N. sub P-514 rammed/sunk with all hands by Minesweeper HMCS Georgian off Newfoundland. Axis captures Tobruk. Minesweeper HMSAS Parktown sunk by Italian MTB off Tobruk. IJN sub shells Ft. Stevens, Oregon
1944 Italian Cruiser Belzano sunk by Italian Frogmen at La Spezia. USCG vessels 83415 & 83471 founder off Normandy
1945 Battle of Okinawa ends. LSM-59 sunk by Kamakaze off Okinawa
 
June 22
217 B.C. Battle of Raphia
168 B.C. Battle of Pydia
1593 Battle of Sisak
1807 HMS Leopard attacks & boards USS Chesapeake
1865 CSS Shenandoah captures 2 Northern Whalers in the Bering Strait, last shots fired in the Civil War
1893 HMS Camperdown rams/sinks Medeterranian Fleet Flagship HMS Victoria, 358 are lost inc Fleet Commander Vice Admiral Geo. Tryon
1940 French Corvette La Bastiase is sunk by mine off Hartlepool, Destroyer Le Fier sunk by mine off Oleron & Destroyer LEntrepenant scuttled @ Gironde estuary
1941 Germany invades the Soviet Union. Soviet Patrol Boat Mo-238 sunk by E Boat S-44. R.N. Trawler HMS Beech bombed/sunk @ Scrabster
1943 LST-373 sunk by U-593 off Algeria. US Subchaser SC-751 lost by grounding, Western Australia
1944 Soviets begin Operation Bagration. I-185 sunk by Destroyers USS Chandler & Newcomb
1945 High Speed Transport USS Barry, damaged by Kamakazes on May 25 & deployed as a Kamakaze decoy, is sunk by Kamakazes
 
June 23
1180 Battle of Uji
1314 Battle of Bannockburn begins
1757 Battle of Plassey
1758 Battle of Krefeld
1760 Battle of Landslaut
1780 Battle of Springfield, N.J.
1812 HMS Belvidera engages & then escapes from Frigates USS President, Congress & United States
1864 1sr Battle of the Weldon Railroad ends
1865 CS Gen. Stand Watie surrenders the last CS Army in the field
1913 Battle of Dorian ends
1919 Battle of Cesis
1940 French sub Emeraude scuttled @ Toulouse. Destroyer HMS Khartoum severly damaged in battle, beached but sinks next day off South Yemen. HMIS Pathan sunk by explosion of own depth charged off Bombay. Italian sub Torricelli sunk in Red Sea by R.N. ships
1941 Soviet Destroyer sunk by bombing @ Sevastopol, sub M-78 off Latvia by U-144 & sub S-3 by E Boats S-35 & S-60 off Germany. R.N. Trawler Nogi bombed/sunk off Cromer. KM supply/POW ship Alsteror scuttled in the Atlantic, 200 allied POWs rescued
1942 Italian Navy cargo ship L-18 sunk off Libya by HMS Thrasher
1943 US Navy cargo ships USS Aluda & Deimos sunk by Ro-103 off San Cristobal Island
 
June 24
637 Battle of Moira
972 Battle of Cedynia
1128 Battle of Sao Mamede
1314 Battle of Bannockburn ends
1340 naval Battle of Sluys
1622 Battle of Macau ends
1812 Napoleon invades Russia
1813 Battle of Beaver Dams, Canada
1821 Battle of Carabobo
1859 Battle of Solferino
1862 1st Siege of Vicksburg begins
1864 USS Queen City captured & burned by CS Army @ Clarendon, Ar.
1866 Battle of Custoza
1940 Italian sub Galvani rammed/sunk by HMS Falmouth in Gulf of Oman.
1941 Sloop HMS Auckland sunk by Ju-87s n.e. of Tobruk. Soviet subs M-71, M-80, S-1, Ronis & Spidola scuttled @ Liepaja, Minesweeper T-208 sunk @ Glutova Bank.
1943 U-119 sunk by R.N. ships
1944 Soviet motorboat DB-26 shelled/sunk by U-20 in the Black Sea. IJN sub I-52 sunk by aircraft from USS Bogue in the Atlantic.
1948 Berlin Blockade begins
 
June 25
524 Battle of Vezeronce
841 Battle of Fontenoy
1862 The Seven Days Battles begins with the Battle of Seven Pines/Fair Oak
1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn: Custer's Last Stand
1917 American Expeditionary Force arrives in France
1940 Destroyer HMCS Fraser is accidently rammed/sunk by HMS Calcutta in the Geronde estuary. French Patrol Boat Saint Marguerite scuttled @ Le Verdon-sur-Mer. KM Flackship V1107 sunk by HMS Snapper in the Norwegian Sea south of Stavanger.
1941 German weather ship Lauenberg captured by HMS Tartar off Jan Mayen & scuttled. Vichy French sub Souffleur sunk by HMS Parthian off Beirut
1942 Destroyer Yamakaze sunk by USS Nautilus off Yokosuka
1948 Berlin Airlift begins
1950 Korean Conflict begins with N. Korea invading S. Korea
 
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June 26
1723 Russians capture Baku
1862 Seven Days Battles: Battle of Mechanicsburg. Farragut's Squadron bombards Vicksburg
1918 Battle of Belleau Wood ends
1936 1st flight of FW 61 1st practical helicopter
1941 Soviets bomb Hungary. Soviet sub M-83 scuttled @ Liepaja & M-101 sunk in the Baltic Sea. Destroyer Moskva sunk by mine off Constanta. R.N. Trawler HMS Tranio bombed/sunk off Happisburgh
1942 1st flight F6F Hellcat. US Army frieghter Matagalpa burns @ Sydney, not repaired & scuttled after the War.
1944 Battle of Osuchy ends
1945 US Minesweepers YMS 39 & 365 sunk by mines off Balikipapan
1991 10 Day War begins
 
June 27
1709 Battle of Poltava
1743 Battle of Dettingen: Last battle where English troops were led in battle by reining Monarch
1759 Siege of Quebec begins
1806 British capture Buenos Aires
1862 Seven Days Battles: Battle of Gaine's Mills. Farragut's Squadron run the batteries & pass Vicksburg
1864 Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
1865 CSS Shenandoah captures 11 US Whalers
1905 Potemkin Mutiny begins
1923 US Army DH-4 aircraft perform 1st aireal refueling
1940 Italian sub Console Generale Luizzi damaged by R.N. ships & then scuttled south of Crete. Sub HMS Orpheus sunk by Italian Destroyer Turbine in the Med.
1941 R.N. Trawler HMS Force bombed/sunk off Great Yarmouth. Italian sub Glauco sunk by HMS Wishart west of Gibraltar, & Scalpa sunk by HMS Triumph off Mersa Matra. Soviet sub M-99 sunk by U-149 in the Baltic, Sub S-10 sunk by E Boats S-59 & S-60 in the Irben Strait. E Boats S-43 & S-106 sunk by mines north of Hiivmaa, Finland. U-556 sunk by HMS Gladioulus off Iceland
 
June 28
1651 Battle of Berestechko begins
1776 Battle of Ft. Sullivan
1778 Battle of Monmouth
1940 Italian sub Argonauta sunk by R.N. ships off Cape el Hilal, Libya. Troopship Paganini sinks from an explosion during an engine room fire in the Adriatic. Destroyer Espero sunk by R.N. Cruisers sw of Crete
1941 Soviet Destroyer Lenin scuttled @ Leipaja
1942 German offensive Case Blue begins
1950 N. Korea captures Seoul
 
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June 29
1149 Battle of Inab
1444 Battle of Torvioll
1644 Battle of Cropredy Bridge
1659 Battle of Konotop
1862 Seven Days Battles: Battle of Savage's Station
1940 Q ship HMS Edgehill sunk by U-51 s.w. of Ireland. Italian sub Rubino sunk by RAF Sunderland in the Ionian Sea, & sub Uebi Scebeli sunk by HMS Dainty & Iley west of Crete
1941 U-651 sunk by R.N. ships in the Atlantic. Destroyer HMAS Waterhen sunk by Ju-87s in the Med, 1st R.A.N. ship lost to enemy action in WWII
1943 Minesweeper USS Redwing sunk by mine off Bizerte, Algeria
1944 Minelayer Tsugaru sunk by USS Darter off Biak, N.E.I. Minesweeper USS Valor sunk in collision with Destroyer Escort USS Richard W Suesens @ the entrance to Buzzards Bay, R.I.
2002 S. Korean Patrol Boat sinks N. Korean Patrol Boat
 
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June 30
1422 Battle of Arbedo
1521 Battle of Noain
1651 Battle of Berestechko
1758 Battle of Domstadtl
1794 Battle of Ft. Recovery begins
1815 USS Peacock captures HMS Nautilus, last action of the War of 1812
1862 Seven Days Battles: Battle of Frazier's Farm
1941 Gunboat HMS Cricket bombed/damaged beyond repair off Egypt. Soviet Patrol Boat MO-4 sunk by mine off Mhni
1942 Sub Tender HMS Medway sunk by U-372 in the Med
1943 US Marines invade Rendova. US Navy Transport USS McCawley torpedoed by Japanese aircraft, scuttled by PT Boats off Rendova. Destroyer USS Hulbert driven ashore on Attu by a storm, refloated, repaired, & put back into service
1944 Battle of Cherbourg ends. USCG vessel CG 83421 sunk in a collision off Fla.
 
July 1
1097 Battle of Dorylaeum
1431 Battle of Higheruela
1690 Battle of the Boyne
1782 Lunenburg, N.S. Raid
1862 Seven Days Battles ends with the Battle of Malvern Hill
1863 Battle of Gettysburg begins
1898 Battle of San Juan Hill
1916 Battle of the Somme begins
1918 Transport USS Covington sunk by U-86
1940 U-26 damaged by HMS Gladiolus & an RAAF Sunderland, sinks from damage July 2nd. U-102 sunk by HMS Van Sittart west of Ireland
1941 KM minelayer Adjutant breaks down off Kent, scuttled. Soviet Destroyer Bystryi damaged by mine @ Sevastopol & beached. Sub M-81 sunk by mine in the Laine Bank, Baltic Sea. Minesweeper Imanta sunk off Saaremaa, Estonia. R.N. Trawler HMS Devon County sunk by mine in Thames Estuary. Armed Boarding Vessel HMS Malverian bombed/damaged in the Atlantic, scuttled July 19.
1942 1st Battle of El Alamein
1947 Philippine Air Force est.
 
July 2
1291 Battle of Gollheim
1582 Battle of Yamazaki
1644 Battle of Marston Moor
1853 Russia invades Moldova & Wallachia
1900 1st flight of a Zepplin
1940 E Boat S-23 sunk by mine off Kent
1941 Soviet Destroyer Tashkent sunk off Novorossiysk
1944 U-543 sunk by Avengers from USS Wake Island. Troopship Empire Broadsword sunk by Mine off Normandy. US Minesweeper YMS-350 sunk by mine off Normandy
1945 sub USS Barb bombards Kaihyo, Japan with rockets
1950 USS Juneau & 2 R.N. ships sink 5 of 6 attacking N. Korean torpedo & gunboats.
 
July 3
324 Battle of Adrianople
1754 Battle of Ft. Necessity, Pa.
1863 Battle of Gettysburg ends
1866 Battle of Koniggratz
1898 naval Battle of Santiago de Cuba
1940 British bombard French fleet @ Mers el Kebir, destroying Battleship Bretagne & damaging Battleships Dunkerque & Province & Destroyer Mogador. French Destroyer Mistral ineffectivly scuttled @ Plymouth, repaired & put into service as HMS Mistral
1941 R.N. Trawlers HMS Receptive & Rosme sunk by mines in the North Sea
1942 U-153 sunk by USS Lansdowne off Cristobal, Panama
1944 U-154 sunk by Destroyer Escorts USS Frost & Inch and aircraft from USS Croatan.
1950 1st carrier air combat of the Conflict & combat debut of A-1 & F9F, 2 N. Korean aircraft shot down.
 
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