2 April 1781 A.D. Continental Frigate ALLIANCE Captures British Privateers MARS and MINERVA Off French Coast
2 April 1781 A.D. Continental Frigate ALLIANCE Captures British Privateers MARS and MINERVA Off French Coast http://www.navy.mil/search/display_history.asp 781 - During the American Revolution, the Continental frigate Alliance, commanded by John Barry, captures the British privateers Mars and Minerva off the coast of France. 1916 - Lt. R.C. Saufley sets an altitude record for a Navy aircraft, 16,072 feet in a Curtiss pusher type hydroplane at Pensacola, Fla., bettering the record he set on March 29 that was set with a record of 16,010 feet. 1943 - USS Tunny (SS 282) sinks the Japanese transport No.2 Toyo Maru west of Truk. 1951 - Two F9F-2B Panthers of VF-191, each loaded with four 250- and two 100-pound general-purpose bombs, are catapulted from USS Princeton (CV 37) for an attack on a railroad bridge near Songjin, North Korea. This mission is the first US Navy use of a jet fighter as a bomber. 1960 - After floods cause destruction at Paramaribo, Suriname, USS G...