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This Day in Naval History - Oct. 14
Story Number: NNS020723-25
Release Date: 7/23/2002 3:31:00 PM
From the Navy News Service
1918 - Naval aviators of Marine Day Squadron 9 make the first raid-in-force for the Northern Bombing Group in World War I, when they bombed a German railroad at Thielt Rivy, Belgium.
1920 - The obsolete battleship Indiana (BB 1) is sunk in Tangier Sound, in the Chesapeake Bay.
1962 - A U.S. reconnaissance plane photographs a Soviet nuclear missile site under construction at San Cristobal, 100 miles west of Havana.
For more information about naval history, visit the Naval Historical Center Web site at www.history.navy.mil.
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