6 April 1945 A.D. OKINAWA: Heavy Kamikage Attacks Hit USS BUSH (DD-529), USS COLHOUN (DD-801), USS EMMONS (DMS-22) & LST 447—Damaged Beyond Repair
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6 April 1945 A.D. OKINAWA: Heavy Kamikage Attacks Hit USS BUSH (DD-529), USS COLHOUN (DD-801), USS EMMONS (DMS-22) & LST 447—Damaged Beyond Repair http://www.navy.mil/search/display_history.asp 1776 - The Continental Navy Squadron, commanded by Commodore Esek Hopkins, is attacked by the British frigate HMS Glasgow and her tender while entering Long Island Sound. 1862 - Naval gunfire from gunboats Tyler and Lexington protect the advanced river flank of Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's army at the Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing). 1909 - Cmdr. Robert E. Peary reports reaching the North Pole, dropping a note in a glass bottle into a crevice in the ice that states: "I have this day hoisted the national ensign of the United States of America at this place, which my observations indicate to be the North Polar axis of the earth, and have formally taken possession of the entire region, and adjacent, for and in the name of the President of the United States of...