Editor’s note: each week we will be exploring the connections (both in print and on OpsLens TV) between seemingly disconnected events that occurred this week in military history, in addition …
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1927: Little-known Air Mail pilot and U.S. Air Service Reserve Corps captain Charles A. Lindbergh touches down at Paris’ Le Bourget Aerodrome after his treacherous nonstop 33 1/2 hour flight …
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1775: Future turncoat Col. Benedict Arnold leads a successful surprise attack against a British fort and the adjacent shipyards at St. Johns, Canada. Among Arnold’s prizes is the British sloop …
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1943: (featured image)The crew of the B-17F Flying Fortress named Memphis Belle lands safely in England after a bombing raid on Lorient, France. Capt. Robert K Morgan’s crew have completed …
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1863: (featured image) Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of the Tennessee clashes with three Confederate divisions led by Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton in the Battle of Champion Hill …
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1862: Cpl. John F. Mackie becomes the first Marine awarded the Medal of Honor when he mans the guns of the ironclad USS Galena after most of the Naval gun …
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1846: Three days after Gen. Zachary Taylor’s forces defeat the Mexican Army in the Battle of Palo Alto, Pres. James K. Polk tells Congress: “Mexico has passed the boundary of …
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1775: The famous Vermont guerrilla force “Green Mountain Boys”, commanded by Col. Ethan Allen, and state militiamen led by Col. Benedict Arnold catch the British troops at Fort Ticonderoga (present-day …
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[Featured image: President Calvin Coolidge awards Lt. Cmdr. Richard E. Byrd (left of president) and Chief Aviation Pilot Floyd Bennett with the Medal of Honor for their North Pole flight.] …
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1846: In the first major battle of the Mexican War, U.S. Army forces under the command of Gen. (and future president) Zachary Taylor decisively defeat Mexican forces under Gen. Mariano …