Today in military history: May 7, 2014

1592 – Battle of Okpo ends (Imjin War) (Naval) 

1862 – Battle of West Point (also Barhamsville or Eltham’s Landing) (US Civil War) 

1864 – Sherman’s March on Atlanta begins; Battle of Rocky Face Ridge begins; Battle of Port Walthall Junction ends (US Civil War)

 General Vandever and his staff, possibly May of 1864

 

1941 – Battle of South Shanxi begins (Second Sino-Japanese War) 

1943 – Allies take Tunis and Bizerta; Japan takes Buthidaung (WWII) 

1950 – Battle of Yiwu ends (Chinese Civil War)

 About 1949 - Chinese Civil War fighters

1954 – Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends (First Indochina War) 
2006 – Second Battle of Mogadishu begins (Somali Civil War) 

2009 – Battle of Am Dam begins (Civil War in Chad) 
2011 – Battle of Kandahar begins (War in Afghanistan)

 Afghan commando, with the Afghan National Army, provides security overwatch via rooftop for fellow Commandos and U.S. Navy SEALs , with Special Operations Task Force – South, during a village clearing operation in Khakrez district, May 6, 2011 Kandahar province, Afghanistan. (Face blurred)

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Today in military history: May 6, 2014

1527 – Sack of Rome (War of the League of Cognac)

 Charles V at the Sack of Rome

1537 – Siege of Cuzco begins (Spanish conquest of Peru) 
1592 – Battle of Okpo begins (Imjin War) (Naval) 
1622 – Battle of Wimpfen (Thirty Years’ War) 
1646 – Newark taken (English Civil War) 
1757 – Battle of Prague (Seven Years’ War)

 18th century painting by Johann Christoph Frisch -
The Death of Field Marshal von Schwerin at the Battle of Prague, 6th May 1757

1780 - Battle of Leund’s Ferry (American Revolutionary War) 
1782 – British Nassau surrenders to Spain (American Revolutionary War) 
1813 – Raid at Georgetown and Fredericktown, MD (War of 1812) 
1814 – Battle of Fort Oswego ends (War of 1812) 
1827 - Battle of Phaleron (Greek War of Independence) 
1861 – State of war between North and South made official (US Civil War) 
1864 – Battle of the Wilderness ends; Battle of Port Walthall Junction begins (US Civil War) 
1915 – Second Battle of Krithia begins (WWI) 
1941 – Operation Tiger begins; (WWII) (Naval) 
1942 – Surrender at Corregidor (WWII) 
1945 – US forces take Pilsen (WWII)

 Brigadier General John L. Pierce, welcoming General George S. Patton at the Pilsen airport, May 1945.

Today in military history: May 5, 2014

1800 – Battle of Moerskirch (also Messkirch) (War of the Second Coalition)  
1804 – Battle of Suriname (Suriname)  
1811 – Battle of Fuentes de Onoro ends (Peninsular War)

 Illustration circa 1900- Members of Napoleon's Imperial Guard

1813 – Dudley’s Massacre (War of 1812)  
1814 - Battle of Fort Oswego begins (War of 1812)  
1862 – Battle of Williamsburg, VA; Actions at Lebanon, TN and Dresden, KY (US Civil War); Battle of Puebla (French intervention in Mexico)

19th century painting - Battle of Puebla

  

1864 –Battle of Albemarle Sound (Naval); Battle of the Wilderness begins (US Civil War) 

1943 – Soviets take Krymsk and Neberjaisk (WWII)         

1945 – German forces in Holland, Denmark and north Germany surrender (WWII); Allies take Swinemunde and Peenemunde (WWII); Japanese balloon bomb kills 6 in Oregon (WWII)    

       Japanese fire balloon of mulberry paper reinflated at Moffett Field, CA after it had been shot down by a Navy aircraft January 10, 1945