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• 1865 - Side-wheel steamship USS Harvest Moon, while underway near Georgetown, with Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren on board, hits a Confederate torpedo and sinks with the loss of one crew member.
• 1942 - Naval Reserve pilot Ensign William Tepuni, flying a Lockheed Hudson from VP-82 Squadron based at Naval Station Argentia, attacks and sinks German submarine U-656 southwest of Newfoundland. It is the first U-boat sunk by US forces in World War II.
• 1953 - During the Korean War, USS Valley Forge aircraft raid a power plant at Chosen, Korea and heavily damage the strongly defended industrial site.
• 1991 - Following USS Missouri's bombardment of Faylaka Island during Operation Desert Storm, hundreds of Iraqi soldiers wave white flags and surrender to the battleships Remotely Piloted Vehicle flying overhead.

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  US forces, with a Lockheed Hudson, sinks its first German U-boat.

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