2012 Event A naval base located on the Strait of Hormuz, near Bandar Langeh, is established by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps 2011 Event Command of the NATO forces in Afghanistan transfers from U.S. General David Petraeus to U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Genreal John R. Allen 1983 Birthday Jessica Lynch, born in Palatine, West Virginia, former Private First Class in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps, captured by Iraqis, recovered by special ops forces 1979 Event Frank Peterson, Jr. named 1st black general in Marine Corps 1978 Event Margaret A. Brewer is 1st female general in the U.S. Marine Corps 1960 Event Peace Corps 1st suggested by John F. Kennedy 1948 Event 1st U.S. woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in 1948 Event 1st Lt. Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps 1945 Event U.S. 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden 1945 Event U.S. 7th Army Corps captures Cologne 1944 Event U.S. 12nd Army Corps crosses river Seine East of Paris 1944 Event 1st SS-Pantser corps counter attacks at Normandy 1944 Event Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino, Italy 1944 Event 1st female U.S. Navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed 1943 Event Withdrawing Africa Corps reaches Mareth-line in North-Africa 1943 Event Women's Marine Corps created 1942 Event Hitler orders Rommels African corps to fight to last man 1942 Event 26th Russian Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski 1942 Event 13th day of battle at El Alamein: Afr corps draws back out Fuka-posing 1942 Death Georg Stumme, German general/commandant of African corps, dies 1942 Death Von Bismarck, German major general, (Africa Corps), dies in battle 1942 Event 1st detachment of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, begin basic training 1942 Event Women's Army Auxiliary Corps began basic training at Fort Des Moines 1942 Event Africa Corps occupy Egypt 1942 Event Tank battle at Bir Hakeim: African corps vs British army 1942 Event U.S. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms 1942 Event Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in U.S. army 1942 Event Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus 1942 Event Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army 1941 Event German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya 1941 Event War Department forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets 1940 Birthday Matthias Habich, actor, Straight to the Heart, A Corps Perdu 1937 Event U.S. Army Air Corps physiological research laboratory completed, Ohio 1933 Event Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps 1932 Birthday Joseph P. Kerwin, born in Oak Park, Illinois, Captain Med Corps USN/astronaut, Skylab 2 1929 Birthday Eustace Gibbs, vice marshal, Diplomatic Corps 1922 Birthday Gerard Philipe, Cannes France, actor, Caligula, Le Diable au Corps 1918 Event England's Royal Flying Corps replaced by Royal Air Force 1916 Event U.S. Army forms Reserve Officers Training Corps 1915 Event Australian Survey Corps becomes part of Military Forces 1915 Event 20th Russian Army corps surrenders 1914 Event U.S. Army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps 1913 Event Richard Corfields "Camel Corps" opens "Mad Mullah" in Burao Somalia 1912 Event Royal Flying Corps forms in England 1912 Event Royal Flying Corps forms (later RAF) 1909 Event Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers 1907 Event Signal Corps of U.S. Army starts aircraft division 1903 Birthday Raymond Radiguet, French journalist and writer, Le diable ouch corps 1901 Event Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization 1900 Birthday Rene Crevel, French author, Mon corps et moi, Detours 1899 Birthday Lyman L Lemnitzer, Marine Corps general, WW II 1880 Event John Philip Sousa becomes new director of U.S. Marine Corps Band 1862 Event Confederate armies officially divide into corps 1862 Event United army officially divides corps 1824 Birthday Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Lieutenant General 2nd Corps, ANV, Confederate 1821 Birthday James Longstreet, Confederate general, 1st Corps, ANV 1819 Death John H van Kinsbergen, lt-admiral/founder (Corps Marines), dies at 84 1802 Event U.S. Army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time) 1789 Event U.S. Marine Corps created by an act of Congress 1779 Event U.S. Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time) 1775 Event Congress forms U.S. Marine Corps 1658 Event 1st U.S. police corps forms (New Amsterdam)
