This Day in Military History

1817: Maj. Gen. Edmund P. Gaines dispatches soldiers to attack the Seminole camp at Fowltown, Fla., formally beginning the First Seminole War. 1868:  (Featured Image) Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer’s …

Today’s post is in honor of Lance Cpl. Bradley M. Faircloth, who was killed by enemy action on this date in 2004 in Iraq’s Anbar province. Faircloth, 2o, of Mobile, …

1817: The First Seminole War begins when Gen. (and future president) Andrew Jackson leads forces into Spanish-held Florida to reclaim escaped slaves from Seminole tribal areas. 1943: USS Nautilus (SS-168) surfaces and disembarks Capt. …

Today’s post is in honor of Army Spc. Joseph L. Lister, who was killed by an improvised explosive device attack in Ramadi, Iraq on this day in 2003. Lister, 22, …

Today’s post is in honor of Marine Lance Cpl. Jeremy S. Shock, who died of wounds sustained in Iraq’s Anbar province on this day in 2006. The 22-year-old native of …

1942: Off Guadalcanal, the U.S. and Japanese fleets engage in one of only two battleship-on-battleship engagements of the Pacific War. While Kirishima hammers USS South Dakota (BB-57) in the early …

1965: 450 soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry under the command of Lt. Col. Harold Moore are choppered in to assault the communist stronghold in the Ia Drang Valley. …

Today’s post is in honor of Spc. Calvin M. Pereda, who died on this day in 2011 of wounds received during an improvised explosive device attack in Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province. …

Today’s post is in honor of Capt. James D. Nehl, who was killed by enemy small-arms fire on this day in 2012 during a patrol in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province. Nehl …

Today’s post is in honor of Spc. Dale J. Kridlo, who was one of two U.S. soldiers killed by small-arms fire on an observation post in Afghanistan’s Kunar province. Kridlo, …