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Congressional Medal of Honor - Military History Archive
Major Events During This Month in Military History
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Jan 16, 2001 is the Ten Year Anniversary of the start of the Gulf War "Desert Storm" in Feb. 2000, the Army re-classified two deaths as non-hostile lowering its total K.I.A. to 96 and thus the grand U.S. total to 146.
Jan. 17, 1945 Polish and Soviet troops liberated Warsaw during World War II.
Jan. 18, 1943 Nazi siege at Leningrad broken.
Jan. 18, 1919 In Versailles, France World War I Peace Congress begins.
Jan. 22, 1944 The Allied invasion of Anzio, Italy begins, during World War II.
Jan. 23, 1973 President Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end the Vietnam War.
Jan. 23, 1920 Victorious in World War I; Allies demand the ex-Kaiser of Germany be turned over, the Dutch Government refuses.
Jan. 24, 1943 World War II conference in Casablanca with President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill in Attendance concludes.
Jan. 25, Korea; Operation Thunderbolt begins.
Jan. 27, 1945 Soviet Troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.
Jan. 27, 1973 The Vietnam Peace Accords were signed in Paris, France.
Jan. 30, 1968 Vietnam: The Tet Offensive begins.
Jan. 31, 1865 Gen. Robert E. Lee is named General-in-Chief of all Confederate armies.
Jan. 31, 1917 Germany announces unrestricted submarine warfare will begin during World War I
Jan. 31, 1944 The invasion of Kwajalein Atoll and the surrounding Marshall Islands by U.S. Forces is underway.
Feb . 1, 1943 The 442d Regimental Combat Team made up almost entirely of Japanese Americans is authorized; They will become one of the most decorated Military Units of World War II
Feb. 1, 1968 Vietnam; Saigon Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong Officer who has just committed a terrorist act with a pistol shot to the head, in what becomes a famous news photo.
Feb. 2, 1848 The Mexican War ends as the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed.
Feb. 2, 1943 World War II: Soviet Forces are victorious in the battle for Stalingrad as Nazi Forces surrender.
Feb. 2, 1991 Scud missiles are fired from Iraq toward Israel and Saudi Arabia with no serious damage reported.
Feb. 5, 1951 Korea: Battle of hill 440 begins.
Feb. 7, 1944 World War II: German Forces launch a counter-offensive at Anzio, Italy.
Feb. 12, 1973 Vietnam: Operation Homecoming begins with the release of American Prisoners of War.
Feb. 13, 1945 World War II: Allies begin massive bombing of Dresden, Germany.
Feb. 13, 1945 World War II: German occupied Budapest is captured by Soviet Forces.
Feb. 15, 1898 Havana, Cuba: The U.S. comes closer to war with Spain after the U.S. Battleship Maine mysteriously explodes in the Harbor, killing more than 260 crew members.
Feb. 15, 1942 World War II: Japanese seize the British Colony of Singapore.
Feb. 15, 1989 The last Soviet Troops depart Afghanistan after 9 years of intervention.
Feb. 16, 1804 Lt. Stephen Decatur leads a successful raid into Tripoli harbor and burns the U.S. Navy frigate Philadelphia, which had fallen into the hands of pirates.
Feb. 16, 1945 World War II: U.S. Forces land on Corregidor in the Philippines.
Feb. 19, WW II, 150 Japanese War Planes attack Darwin, Australia.
Feb. 19, 1945 World War II: The U.S. lands 30,000 Marines on Iwo Jima.
Feb. 21, 1916 World War I: In France the Battle of Verdum begins.
Mar . 18, 1969: Operation Code Name Breakfast begins as U.S. B-52 Bombers attack Communist Bases in Cambodia for the first time in the war.
Apr . 1, 1945 World War II: 50,000 U.S. Combat Troops land on Okinawa with the assistance of over 1300 ships which converged on the island. They faced a Japanese force of 120,000 (made up of troops, militia, and laborers.)
Apr. 1, 1972 Vietnam: The Nguyen Hue offensive by the North Vietnamese begins with Hanoi's 304th Division ( 12,000 to 15,000 soldiers, supported by tanks, artillery, and surface to air missiles) as they sweep across the D.M.Z. South Vietnamese forces of the 3rd Division are driven toward their rear bases. NOTE: This was the first attack by what was later called the Easter Offensive. A large scale operation by the N.V.A. which included 14 infantry divisions totaling more than 120,000 troops, 1200 tanks, artillery units, and other armored vehicles.
Apr. 4, 1975 Vietnam: In Saigon a U.S. Air Force transport plane crashes killing more than 130 people mostly Vietnamese orphaned children.
Apr. 6, 1972 Vietnam: Operation Linebacker begins.
Apr. 10, 1963: The U.S. submarine USS Thresher sinks off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass., claiming 129 lives.
Apr. 10, 1942 World War II: One day after the fall of Bataan, The Bataan Death March begins.
Apr. 11, 1945: WW II, American forces liberate the Nazi Concentration Camp Buchenwald in Germany.
Apr. 11, 1951: President Truman relieves Gen. MacArthur of his far east command.
Apr. 16, 1953 Korea: The battle for Pork Chop Hill begins.
Apr.21, 1918 World War I: Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the "Red Baron," is killed in action.
Apr. 30, 1945 World War II: As Russian forces approach, Adolph Hitler commits suicide.
Apr. 30, 1975 Vietnam: Saigon falls to communist forces as NVA tanks enter the city.
May 7, 1915: The Lusitania is sunk by a German torpedo; nearly 1200 people perish.
May 7, 1945: WW II, Germany signs unconditional surrender at Allied Headquarters, in Rheims, France.
May 7, 1954: The battle at Dien Bien Phu Vietnam ends after 55 days as French forces are overrun.
May 8, 1945: VE Day - U.S. Recognizes German signing of unconditional surrender.
May 8, 1972 Vietnam: U.S. Navy mines North Vietnamese Ports.
May 10, 1969 Vietnam: The Battle of Hamburger Hill begins.
May 21, 1968: Nuclear powered submarine USS Scorpion is last heard from on this day. Later the remains of the Sub were found. The crew of 99 perished.
May 24, 1941 WW II: The H.M.S. Hood is sunk in the North Atlantic by the German battleship Bismarck. 1500 British sailors are killed, only 3 survive.
June 6, 1944 WWII: D-DAY.....The invasion of Europe begins as Allied Forces storm the beaches of Normandy, France.
June 25, 1950: The Korean War begins as 60,000 North Korean troops invade South Korea.
June 28, 1914: Austrian Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serb nationalist - triggering WW I.
June 28 1919: The treaty of Versailles is signed in France, ending WW I.
June 28, 1950: North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea.
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July 6, 1777 The American Revolution; The British capture Ft. Ticonderoga.
July 6, 1917 World War I: Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence capture the port of Aqaba from Turks.
July 9, 1944 World war II: Saipan falls as Japanese defenses are overcome by American Forces.
July 30, 1942 World War II: The USS Indianapolis is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in shark infested waters. Out of a crew of 1,196 only 316 survived. The Captain (Charles Butler McVay III) was court-martialed and convicted for failing to evade the sub which sank his ship. Recently however the Navy has exonerated him.
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August 7, 1942 World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins.
August 7, 1782 The Purple Heart Medal is established.
August 15, 1944 Allied Forces land in southern France.
August 15, 1945 Proclaimed as VJ day as Japan agrees to an unconditional surrender.
August 18, 1951 Korea: The Battle of Bloody Ridge begins as the U.S. 2nd Division's 9th Infantry Regiment assaults entrenched North Korean troops atop a series of hills. Casualties were heavy.
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Sep . 2, 1945 VJ Day as Japan formally surrenders
Sep. 3, 1939 World War II: Britain and France declare war on Germany two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland
Sep. 3, 1943 Italy signs secret armistice with the allies as the British 8th Army invades Italy.
Sep. 11, 2001 The US is attacked by suicide terrorist in N.Y. City and Wash. D.C. Three hi-jacked commercial airliners are used as missiles to bring down the two World Trade Center Towers in NY and damaging the Pentagon in Wash. D.C. A fourth crashes in rural Pennsylvania. Thousands are killed and injured in the worst terrorist attack against American Citizens in US history.
Sep. 12, 1944 World War II: US Army troops first enter Germany around the area of Trier.
Sep. 18, 1947 The U.S. Air Force is established.
Sep. 18, 1950 Korea: The Inchon operation and the liberation of Seoul begins.
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Oct. 8, 1971 Vietnam: Operation Jefferson Glen begins.
Oct. 9, 1950 Korea: Invasion of North Korea begins.
Oct. 11, 1942 W.W. II: The Battle of Esperance begins in what will be an American victory over the Japanese in the Solomons.
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Nov . 10, 1775 U.S. Marine Corps Established
Nov. 11, 1918 Armistice signed ending WWI. Later became Veterans Day
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Dec . 7, 1941: Sneak attack on Pearl Harbor Hawaii by Japanese catapults U.S. into World War II.
Dec. 16, 1944 WWII: The Battle of The Bulge began.
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