524 – Battle of Vezeronce (France)
841 - Battle of
Fontenoy (Carolingian Civil War)
Battle of Fontenoy - About 1460 by Jean Fouquet
1386 - Battle of
Brentelle (Italy)
1569 - Battle of La
Roche l'Abeille (French Wars of Religion)
1629 – Battle of
Trzciana (Polish-Swedish War 1626-1629)
1813 – Capture of Hampton, Virginia begins (War of 1812)
1857 – Siege of Cawnpore ends (Indian Rebellion of 1857)
1862 – Battle of Oak Grove (US Civil War)
1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn begins (Great Sioux War
of 1876-1877)
1944 – US takes Piombino, Italy (WWII); Battle of Tali-Ihantala
begins (Continuation War)
1945 – US takes Tuguegarag, Philippines (WWII)
1947 – Campaign to the North of Baoding begins (Chinese
Civil War)
1948 – Hebei-Rehe-Chahar Campaign ends (Chinese Civil War)
1950 – North Korea invades South Korea (Korean War)
Overhead view of the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Valley Forge (CV-45) underway, with various aircraft of Carrier Air Group Five (CVG-5) on deck. Visible are (from stern to bow) Seven Grumman F9F-2 Panther (of fighter squadrons VF-51 and VF-52), plus one forward, 10 Douglas AD-4 Skyraiders (from attack squadron VA-55), and about twelve Vought F4U-4B Corsairs (from VF-53 and VF-54). Valley Forge
as on a regular deployment to the Western Pacific beginning on 1 May
1950, and was visiting Hong Kong, when the Korean War broke out on 25
June 1950. Up to December she was then engaged in war operations.
(From Wikimedia Commons)
A U.S. Air Force Douglas C-54 Skymaster transport burning in
South Korea in June 1950. North Korean fighters destroyed a C-54 at
Kimpo airfield on 25 June and one at Suwon airfield on 29 June.
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