Military History Anniversaries:

Month of July

• 16 1779 - Revolutionary War: American troops capture Stony Point, N.Y.
• Jul 16 1945 - WWII: The United States detonates the first atomic bomb in a test at Alamogordo, N. M
• Jul 17 1898 - Spanish-American War: U.S. troops take Santiago de Cuba.
• Jul 17 1966 - Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh orders a partial mobilization of to defend against American airstrikes.Jul 18 1915 - WWI: 2nd Battle of Isonzo begins & ends with loss of 280,000 men.
• Jul 18 1942 - WWII: German Me-262, the first jet-propelled aircraft to fly in combat, makes its first flight.
• Jul 18 1971 - Vietnam: New Zealand and Australia announce they will pull their troops out of Vietnam.
• Jul 19 1942 - WWII: German U-boats are withdrawn from positions off the U.S. Atlantic coast due to American anti-submarine countermeasures.
• Jul 20 1917 - WWI: Draft lottery held; #258 is 1st drawn.
• Jul 20 1944 - WWII: Adolf Hitler is wounded in an assassination attempt by German Army officers.
• Jul 20 1950 - Korean War: The U.S. Army’s Task Force Smith is pushed back by superior forces.
• Jul 21 1861 - Civil War: In the first major battle of the War, Confederate forces defeat the Union Army along Bull Run near Manassas Junction, Virginia. The battle becomes known as Manassas by the Confederates, while the Union calls it Bull Run.
• Jul 21 1944 - WWII: U.S. Army and Marine forces land on Guam in the Marianas.
• Jul 21 1954 - Vietnam: The French sign an armistice with the Viet Minh that ends the war but divides Vietnam into two countries.
• Jul 22 1775 - Revolutionary War: George Washington took command of the Continental Army.
• Jul 22 1814 - Five Indian tribes in Ohio make peace with the United States and declare war on Britain.
• Jul 22 1966 - Vietnam: B-52 bombers hit the DMZ between North and South Vietnam for the first time.
  
  

  Month of Sept.

• Sep 01 1864 – Civil War: Confederate troops abandoned Atlanta in the face of continuing attacks by federals under General W.S. Sherman .
  
• Sep 01 1939 - WW II: Nazi Germany attacks Poland beginning the war in Europe.
• Sep 01 1950 - Korean War: 13 North Korean divisions open assault on UN lines.
• Sep 01 1982 - The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
• Sep 01 1983 - Cold War: Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia & is shot down by a Soviet jet. All 269 on board are killed, including United States Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
• Sep 02 1898 – Machine gun first used in battle.
• Sep 02 1864 - Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, Georgia a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city.
• Sep 02 1945 - WWII: V-J Day. Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
• Sep 02 1958 - Cold war: United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a SIGINT mission. All crew lost.
• Sep 03 1783 - Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain. America is officially free from Britain.
  
• Sep 03 1855 - Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under American General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village, killing 100 men, women, and children.
• Sep 03 1916 - WWI: Allies turned back Germans in WW I's Battle of Verdun.
• Sep 03 1941 - WWII: 1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war).
• Sep 03 1943 – WWII: The allied invasion of Italy began.
• Sep 04 1862 - Civil War: Gen Lee invades North with 50,000 Confederate troops.
• Sep 04 1886 - Indian Wars: after almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders with his remaining warriors to General Nelson Miles in Arizona ending last major US-Indian war.
• Sep 04 1918 - WWI: U.S. troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months.
• Sep 04 1940 - WW II: A German submarine makes the first attack against a United States ship (the USS Greer).
• Sep 04 1967 - Vietnam: Operation Swift begins. U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.
• Sep 05 1914 - WWI: Battle of Marne begins. Germans chase out Russians.
• Sep 05 1939 - WWII: FDR declares US neutrality at start of WW II in Europe.
• Sep 08 1943 - WWII: Gen Eisenhower announced unconditional surrender of Italy in WW II.
• Sep 08 1945 - Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.
• Sep 09 1914 - WWI: Battle of Marne. German advance stalls, Paris saved .
• Sep 09 1942 - WWII: 1st bombing on continental U.S. soil. A Japanese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on Mount Emily Oregon.
• Sep 10 1776 - Revolutionary War: George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers.
• Sep 10 1813 - War of 1812: Battle of Lake Erie. U.S. Naval Captain Oliver Hazard Perry defeats a British flotilla.
• Sep 10 1919 - Latin America Interventions: Honduras. U.S. Marines land during election campaign.
• Sep 11 1941 - WWII: FDR orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight.
• Sep 11 1965 - Vietnam: The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in country.
• Sep 11 2001 - Terrorists hijack two passenger planes crashing them into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both & death of 2,752 people.
  Sep 11 2001 - Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon causing the death of 125 people.
• Sep 12 1814 - War of 1812: Battle of North Point is fought near Baltimore.
• Sep 12 1847 - Mexican-American War: The Battle of Chapultepec begins.
• Sep 12 1862 - Civil War: Battle of Harpers Ferry VA.
• Sep 12 1918 - WWI: St Mihiel France. 1st U.S. Operation and Victory by an Independent American Army.
• Sep 12 1944 - WWI: U.S. Army troops enter Germany for first time
• Sep 13 1847 - American-Mexican War: U.S. forces capture Mexico City effectively ending the war.
• Sep 13 1861 - Civil War: 1st naval battle of the war. Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla.
• Sep 13 1900 - Philippine-American War: Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa.
• Sep 13 1942 - WWI: Battle of Edson's Ridge (2nd Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal.
• Sep 13 1951 - Korean War: Battle of Heart Break Ridge began.
• Sep 14 1814 - War of 1812: During a British naval attack on the City of Baltimore, Francis Scott Key composed a poem entitled "The Star Spangled Banner."
• Sep 15 1776 - Revolutionary War: British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan.
• Sep 15 1914 - Vera Cruz Incident: U.S. Marines march out of Vera Cruz, Mexico.
• Sep 15 1916 - WWI: 1st tank used in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flors, France
• Sep 15,1950 Korean War: UN forces land at Inchon in South Korea -     

 

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