Operation DESERT STORM Archives

February 24 in U.S. military history

1813: The sloop-of-war USS Hornet (the third of eight so-named American warships) under the command of Capt. James Lawrence sinks

1945: As Task Force 58’s carrier-based planes fly close air support for the Marines fighting on Iwo Jima, Japanese kamikaze

1778: The Continental sloop-of-war Ranger (the first of 10 so-named American warships) under the command of Capt. John Paul Jones

1865: Robert E. Lee is promoted to General-in-Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States. Lee is the only man

1863: Following a series of clashes between white settlers and the Shoshone Indians, Col. Patrick E. Connor’s 3rd California Volunteer