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Battle of the Mississinewa: December 17–18, 1812 Near Jalapa: War of 1812: Detroit Frontier 102+ United States of America vs Tecumseh's confederacy Battle of Tipton's Island: April 1813 White River: War of 1812: Detroit Frontier 7 Indiana Rangers vs Kickapoo: Attack at Fort Wayne: July 7, 1813 Fort Wayne: War of 1812: Detroit Frontier 3
A native of Indiana [1] and 1930 graduate of West Point. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross ,the Mackay Trophy , and was also one of the pioneers of the Army Air Mail Service. Captain Freeman was killed on 6 February 1941 in the crash of a B-17 Flying Fortress (B-17B 38-216) near Lovelock, Nevada while en route to Wright Field , Ohio.
Battle of Bataan: January 7, 1942 April 9, 1942 Bataan Peninsula, Philippines: Philippines campaign (1941–1942) 15,000 captured and interned [3] Japanese victory Japan Last stand of American and Filipino forces; Ended in Japanese capture of Bataan Peninsula; Doolittle Raid: April 18, 1942 Tokyo and other Japanese cities
Battle for Henderson Field: October 1942; Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, October 1942; Matanikau Offensive: November 1942; Koli Point action: November 1942; Carlson's Patrol: November–December 1942; Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. November 1942; Battle of Tassafaronga, November 1942; Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea ...
1942, clockwise from top left: British artillery barrage opens the Battle of El Alamein; the Jews of Salonika are rounded up for deportation to extermination camps; Soviet troops of the Great Patriotic War fight the Battle of Stalingrad; USS Lexington (CV-2) under fire at the Battle of the Coral Sea; Reinhard Heydrich's car after attack by Czech resistance; 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking troops ...
October 5 – The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the New York Yankees, 4 games to 1, to win their 4th World Series Title. October 11 – WWII – Battle of Cape Esperance : On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal , United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island.
The Battle off Endau began as part of the Battle of Malaya. Japanese troops occupied the Anambas Islands in the South China Sea. [41] The first American soldiers to land in the European theatre of operations disembarked at Belfast, Northern Ireland. [42] Their arrival was kept a secret right up until the first ship docked. [6]
Nevertheless the raids, along with the Doolittle Raid in April 1942, helped convince the IJN's Combined Fleet commander, Isoroku Yamamoto, that he needed to draw the American carriers into battle as soon as possible in order to destroy them. Yamamoto's plan to do so resulted in the Battle of Midway.