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November 15 in U.S. military history

1942: Just north of Guadalcanal, U.S. and Japanese warships engage in one of only two battleship-on-battleship engagements of the Pacific

1965: 450 soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry under the command of Lt. Col. Harold Moore are choppered in

1944: On this date, two 90th Infantry Division soldiers earned the Medal of Honor — just miles apart from each

1775: The Continental Congress decrees that two battalions of Marines be raised in Philadelphia, consisting of “good seamen, or so

1822: During an anti-piracy cruise in the Caribbean, the brig USS Alligator – the third of four so-named U.S. warships