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October 31 in U.S. military history

1941: Although the United States has not yet entered the war, U.S. Naval vessels are serving as convoy escorts. When

1909: U.S. Army Lt. (future brig. gen.) Frederick Erastus Humphreys becomes the first Army aviator to solo in a heavier-than-air

1742: After disease and poor management leads to the deaths of all but 600 of the 3,500-man 61st Regiment of

1864: In Westport, Mo. (present-day Kansas City), Maj. Gen. Samuel R. Curtis’ 22,000-man Army of the Border defeats a heavily

1781: British Gen. Charles Cornwallis formally surrenders 7,087 officers and men, 900 seamen, 144 cannons, 15 galleys, a frigate, and