User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/May 27

May 27

 * 1813 - War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
 * 1905 - Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
 * 1940 - World War II: Le Paradis massacre - 97 out of 99 members of a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are massacred while trying to surrender at Dunkirk. The German commander, Captain Fritz Knoechlein, is eventually hanged for war crimes.
 * 1941 - World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing 2,300 men.
 * 1942 - World War II: Operation Anthropoid - assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague.
 * 1965 - Vietnam War: United States warships begin bombardments of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam for the first time.