Tuesday 30 April 2019
Today in Military History April 30th
30/04/1636 Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recapture a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege.
30/04/1863 A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
30/04/1917 William Sanders’s was awared the Victoria Cross for his actions on 30/04/1917 his body was lost at sea the VC and DSO was presented to William Sanders’s father. His medals are now held by the Auckland War Museum, Auckland.
30/04/1943 World War II: The British submarine HMS Seraph surfaces near Huelva to cast adrift a dead man dressed as a courier and carrying false invasion plans.
30/04/1945 World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for less than 40 hours. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building.
30/04/1945 World War II: Stalag Luft I prisoner-of-war camp near Barth, Germany is liberated by Soviet soldiers, freeing nearly 9000 American and British airmen.
30/04/1961 K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
Monday 29 April 2019
Today in Military History 29 April
#OnThisDay 220 years ago in 1802, the Marines became the Royal Marines and today as then @RoyalMarines provide @RoyalNavy and #UnitedKingdom with arguably the best amphibious assault capability in the world. pic.twitter.com/9QdinTO0Rx
— On This Day RN (@OnthisdayRN) April 29, 2022
Sunday 28 April 2019
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Today in Military History April 28
28/04/1758 Battle of Attock: The Marathas under Raghunath Rao capture Attock from the Durranis.
28/04/1789 The mutiny on HMS Bounty took place
28/04/1792 France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
28/04/1944 World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
28/04/1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
28/04/1952 The Treaty of San Francisco comes into effect, restoring Japanese sovereignty and ending its state of war with most of the Allies of World War II.
28/04/1952 The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
28/04/1965 United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops.
28/04/1970 Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
28/04/1986 – The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea.
Saturday 27 April 2019
Today In Military History April 27
Friday 26 April 2019
Brothers and Chaplins Laid To Rest At Arlington.
A former Army chaplain known as Father Frank was laid to rest on April 24 in the same grave as his brother, Father Robert Brett, who died in a bunker in Vietnam in 1968 while serving as a Navy chaplain.
Source Crux
US Zaps Troops with Electricity
The US Army is looking at passing an electric current into soilders heads to enhance preformance.
The trial is to see how if at all this could enhance the solider, the treatment has been used in rehabilitaion.
Related link Super soldiers
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Today in History 26 April
#OnThisDay in 1971 the first of 8 @RoyalNavy
— On This Day RN (@OnthisdayRN) April 26, 2022
Type 21 Frigate, HMS AMAZON, was launched. She served until 1993 when she was sold to @PakistanNavy
serving as PNS Babur until 2015. pic.twitter.com/T7WcB0tvhO
Thursday 25 April 2019
India Invites Women To Military Police.
For the first time Women have been invited to apply for a position in the Indian Corps of Military Police. It is hope up to 20 percent of the corps officers will be women.
Source India Today
Today In Military History April 25th
1829 Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
1862 American Civil War: Forces under U.S. Admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
1864 American Civil War: The Battle of Marks' Mills.
1882 French and Vietnamese troops clashed in Tonkin, when Commandant Henri Rivière seized the citadel of Hanoi with a small force of marine infantry.
1898 Spanish–American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
1916 Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at ANZAC Cove.
Wednesday 24 April 2019
Today in Military History April 24th
24/04/1877 Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
24/04/1918 World War I: First tank-to-tank combat, during the second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux. Three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs.
24/04/1944 World War II: The SBS launches a raid against the garrison of Santorini in Greece.
24/04/1965 Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch.
24/04/1967 Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily".
Tuesday 23 April 2019
Today in Military History April 23
1521 Battle of Villalar: King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros. w
1655 The Siege of Santo Domingo begins during the Anglo-Spanish War, and fails seven days later. w
1941 World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht. w
1942 World War II: Baedeker Blitz: German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck. w
John Thompson McKellar Anderson was awarded the VC, on 23 April 1943 at the Battle of Longstop Hill. The citation reads:
For conspicuous gallantry and outstanding devotion to duty during the attack on "Longstop" Hill, Tunisia, on the 23rd April, 1943.
Over a period of five hours Major Anderson led the attack through intense enemy machine-gun and mortar fire. As leading Company Commander he led the assault on the Battalion's first objective, in daylight, over a long expanse of open sloping hillside and most of the time without the effective cover of smoke. Enemy infantry opposition was most determined, and very heavy casualties were sustained, including all other rifle Company Commanders, before even the first objective was reached.
On the first objective and still under continual enemy fire, Major Anderson reorganised the Battalion and rallied men whose Commanders, in most cases, had been either killed or wounded. The Commanding Officer having been killed, he took command of the Battalion and led the assault on the second objective. During this assault he received a leg wound, but in spite of this he carried on and finally captured "Longstop" Hill with a total force of only four officers and less than forty other ranks. Fire had been so intense during this stage of the attack that the remainder of the Battalion were pinned down and unable to advance until Major Anderson had successfully occupied the hill.
During the assault, he personally led attacks on at least three enemy machine-gun positions and in every case was the first man into the enemy pits; he also led a successful attack on an enemy mortar position of four mortars, defended by over thirty of the enemy. Major Anderson's force on the hill captured about 200 prisoners and killed many more during the attack. It is largely due to this officer's bravery and daring that "Longstop" Hill was captured, and it was the inspiration of his example which encouraged leaderless men to continue the advance.[3]
1945 World War II: Adolf Hitler's designated successor, Hermann Göring, sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich. Martin Bormann and Joseph Goebbels advise Hitler that the telegram is treasonous w
1946 Manuel Roxas is elected the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. w
1951 The Battle of the Imjin River had begun in South Korea. 1st Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment occupied hill 235 w
1971 Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army and Razakars massacre approximately
3,000 Hindu emigrants in the Jathibhanga area of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). w
Monday 22 April 2019
Today in Military History April 22
1903 - John Gough was 31 years old, and a brevet major in The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) during the Third Somaliland Expedition when the following event took place for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross.
During the action at Daratoleh, on 22nd April last, Major Gough assisted Captains Walker and Rolland in carrying back the late Captain Bruce (who had been mortally wounded)and preventing that Officer from falling into the hands of the enemy. Captains Walkerand Rolland have already been awarded the Victoria Cross for their gallantry on this occasion, but Major Gough (who was in command of the column) made no mention of his own conduct, which has only recently been brought to notice.
1945 World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. Five hundred twenty are killed and around eighty escape. W
1948 Arab–Israeli War: Haifa, a major port of Israel, is captured from Arab forces. W
1951 Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army begin assaulting positions defended by the Royal Australian Regiment and the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at the Battle of Kapyong. W
Sunday 21 April 2019
Today in Military History April 21
21/04/1282 Welsh siege of Rhuddlan Castle lifted by English force led by future, Amadeus V, Count of Savoy.
21/04/1802 Twelve thousand Wahhabis under Abdul-Aziz bin Muhammad, invaded city of Karbala, killed over three thousand inhabitants, and sacked the city.
21/04/1809 Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.
21//04/1898 Spanish–American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports. When the U.S. Congress issued a declaration of war on April 25, it declared that a state of war had existed from this date.
Saturday 20 April 2019
Russian Missile Live Fire Exercise.
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Today in Military History April 20th
1689 Deposed monarch James II of England lays siege to Derry.
1792 France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
1809 Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
1945 World War II: U.S. troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
Friday 19 April 2019
Today In Military History April19th
19/04//1809 An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
19/04/1989 A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
Thursday 18 April 2019
Russian May Day Parade Practice.
Russian Forces training for the May Day parade in Alabino
Timeline for preparatory activities in Moscow
- 26-27 March towards 6 April – beginning of parade practice runs in Alabino, Moscow Oblast
- 2nd up to the 3rd week of April – General practice run-through in the Alabino training field, including flypast[8]
- 4th week of April until 2 days before Victory Day - practice runs in Red Square right up to the general practice run
- 26–30 April, 2–6 May – evening parade practice run-throughs
- 4–5 May – Air flypast practice runs
- 6 May – the general practice run at 10 am MST (set to be livestreamed)
How NATO Copes With Hybrid Means of Warfare
Propaganda, deception, sabotage and other non-military tactics have beed growing iver the years. This is how NATO deals with this form of Warfare.
Today In Military History 18 April
18/04/1775 American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
18/04/1847 American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico.
18/04/1864 Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.
18/04/1897 The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
18/04/1942 World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan: Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.
18/04/1943 World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
18/04/1945 Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany
18/04/1947 The Royal Navy detonated 7000 tons (7112.328 Tonne)of unused WW2 Ordnance on the German Island of Heligoland.
18/04/1988 The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.
Wednesday 17 April 2019
Life Saving Battlefield Medical Treatment
Life-saving frontline technology given £5 million boost
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1897 21 Sikh soldiers of the Army of British India where killed at Saragarhi hill fort https://www.army.mod.uk/news-and-events/news/2020...
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283 Battle of the Gulf of Naples : Roger of Lauria , admiral to King Peter III of Aragon , captures Charles of Salerno . 1288 Battle...
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