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The Military Journal @militaryjournal.net · 8h

16 October 1939: Ju 88 bombers of Kampfgeschwader 30 conducted the first bombing raid on Britain, targeting Royal Navy warships in the Firth of Forth. The raid was intercepted by No. 602 and No. 603 Squadrons, resulting in the first German aircraft to be shot down in the air war over Britain.

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The Military Journal @militaryjournal.net · 9h

Armoured cars going into action, passing men of the Northumberland Hussars on the Zillebeke Road, on 15 October 1914. Earlier that day, the Hussars had come into contact with German cavalry southeast of Ypres, near Zillebeke and Zandvoorde.

📸 Harold Robson / IWM (Q 50706)

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Royal Navy destroyer HMS KEPPEL (D84) on her arrival back at Greenock on 12 October 1943 following the vessel's ramming and sinking of the surfaced German submarine U-229 south-east of Cape Farewell, Greenland on 22 September.

📸 Lt S J Beadell / IWM (A 19691)

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13/18th Royal Hussars during an exercise near Vimy, on 11 October 1939. Before the outbreak of the Second World War, the regiment was transferred to the Royal Armoured Corps and fought as a reconnaissance unit in the Battle of France in 1940, before being evacuated at Dunkirk.

📸 IWM (O 117)

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Neil Ritchie @neilritchie.bsky.social · 2d

14 October 1853: At the request of the Ottomans, the British and French fleets left Besika Bay and transited the Dardanelles as the Ottoman army prepared to engage Russian forces occupying Wallachia. The Austrian army's mobilisation against Russia continued.

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Neil Ritchie @neilritchie.bsky.social · 4d

12 October 1854: British commander Lord Raglan issued instructions for the army to prepare for a winter campaign in the Crimea and ordered fuel to be stockpiled at Scutari. The French commander Canrobert issued similar instructions. The grand raid to seize Sevastopol would last longer than expected.

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The Military Journal @militaryjournal.net · 4d

Royal Navy destroyer HMS KEPPEL (D84) on her arrival back at Greenock on 12 October 1943 following the vessel's ramming and sinking of the surfaced German submarine U-229 south-east of Cape Farewell, Greenland on 22 September.

📸 Lt S J Beadell / IWM (A 19691)

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The Military Journal @militaryjournal.net · 5d

13/18th Royal Hussars during an exercise near Vimy, on 11 October 1939. Before the outbreak of the Second World War, the regiment was transferred to the Royal Armoured Corps and fought as a reconnaissance unit in the Battle of France in 1940, before being evacuated at Dunkirk.

📸 IWM (O 117)

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The Military Journal @militaryjournal.net · 7d

9 October 1760: With Frederick the Great's forces concentrated in Silesia, Russian and Austrian troops occupied large parts of the Prussian capital, Berlin and seized around 18,000 muskets and 143 cannons from the Berlin arsenal, during the Third Silesian War, part of the Seven Years' War.

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The Military Journal @militaryjournal.net · 6d

10 October 1939: Admiral Erich Raeder urged Adolf Hitler to consider invading Norway to secure ports and anchorages so as to protect Germany's vital iron ore traffic and to use Norway as a base to allow the Kriegsmarine to attack the North Atlantic sea lanes to Britain.

The Military Journal @militaryjournal.net · 6d

Soldiers of the 8th (Service) Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), part of 9th (Scottish) Division, resting by the roadside near Contalmaison Wood during the Battle of Le Transloy (1-18 October 1916).

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The Military Journal @militaryjournal.net · 7d

9 October 1760: With Frederick the Great's forces concentrated in Silesia, Russian and Austrian troops occupied large parts of the Prussian capital, Berlin and seized around 18,000 muskets and 143 cannons from the Berlin arsenal, during the Third Silesian War, part of the Seven Years' War.

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The Military Journal @militaryjournal.net · 8d

7 October 1864: Union sloop-of-war USS Wachusett under Commander Napoleon Collins engaged with and captured the Confederate sloop-of-war CSS Florida in the Port of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The action sparked a diplomatic incident between the United States and Brazil.

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The Military Journal @militaryjournal.net · 8d

8 October 1941: During the Battle of the Sea of Azov, elements of Germany's Army Group South captured the port city of Mariupol, which fell without much of a fight. Its capture gave the Germans access to the Sea of Azov, and the city would be occupied by the Germans until 10 September 1943.

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The Military Journal @militaryjournal.net · 8d

Soldiers of the 138th (3rd Lower Alsatian) Infantry Regiment take a rest during the German Imperial Army manoeuvres in the autumn of 1899. The regiment had been raised on 11 March 1887.

📸 IWM HU 68430

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The Military Journal @militaryjournal.net · 9d

Royal Marines of 41 Commando embark in a Wessex helicopter from 845 Naval Air Squadron on the flight deck of HMS Albion (R07) in October 1962, prior to Albion's deployment to the Far East. The Centaur-class HMS Albion had been converted to a commando carrier in January 1961.

📸 IWM (A 34658)

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The Military Journal @militaryjournal.net · 8d

US Army Special Forces and US Air Force Combat Controllers with Northern Alliance troops on horseback in the Dari-a-Souf Valley, Afghanistan, in October 2001.

📸 Master Sgt. Chris Spence

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The Military Journal @militaryjournal.net · 8d

8 October 1941: During the Battle of the Sea of Azov, elements of Germany's Army Group South captured the port city of Mariupol, which fell without much of a fight. Its capture gave the Germans access to the Sea of Azov, and the city would be occupied by the Germans until 10 September 1943.

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The Military Journal @militaryjournal.net · 8d

7 October 1864: Union sloop-of-war USS Wachusett under Commander Napoleon Collins engaged with and captured the Confederate sloop-of-war CSS Florida in the Port of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The action sparked a diplomatic incident between the United States and Brazil.

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Neil Ritchie @neilritchie.bsky.social · 9d

7 October 1855: British and French warships set sail from Kameisch Bay in the Crimea bound for a rendezvous off Odessa before sailing to their objective of Kinburn Fort, which guarded the Bug and Dneiper rivers and the access to the Russian shipyards at Nikolaev.

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The Military Journal @militaryjournal.net · 9d

Royal Marines of 41 Commando embark in a Wessex helicopter from 845 Naval Air Squadron on the flight deck of HMS Albion (R07) in October 1962, prior to Albion's deployment to the Far East. The Centaur-class HMS Albion had been converted to a commando carrier in January 1961.

📸 IWM (A 34658)

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The Military Journal @militaryjournal.net · 10d

6 October 1777: British forces under the command of General Sir Henry Clinton captured Fort Clinton and Fort Montgomery on the Hudson River during the American Revolutionary War. British troops were then able to dismantle the river chain, which prevented naval movement upriver.

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The Military Journal @militaryjournal.net · 10d

6 October 1762: British forces led by Brigadier-General William Draper and Rear-Admiral Samuel Cornish captured Manila from the Spanish during the Anglo-Spanish War (1762–63), part of the Seven Years' War (1756-1763). Manila was returned to Spain in April 1764 as per the Treaty of Paris.

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Neil Ritchie @neilritchie.bsky.social · 11d

5 October 1853: Backed by British and French fleets in the Dardanelles, the Ottoman Empire declared war on Russia after issuing an ultimatum to St Petersburg to remove its armies from the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia. It began what became known as the Crimean War.

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The Military Journal @militaryjournal.net · 12d

4 October 1693: At the Battle of Marsaglia in northern Italy, the French army under Marshal Nicolas Catinat employed the mass use of the bayonet for the first time. The French infantry line advanced and then launched a bayonet charge on Victor Amadeus II's army of the Grand Alliance and routed them.

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