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4 days ago · 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1941st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 941st year of the 2nd millennium, the 41st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1940s decade.
5 days ago · Pearl Harbor attack, (December 7, 1941), surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. The strike climaxed a decade of worsening relations between the United States and Japan.
2 days ago · On 8 December 1941, Japanese bombers struck American airfields on Luzon. They caught most of the planes on the ground, destroying 103 aircraft, more than half of the US air strength. Two days later, further raids led to the destruction of the Cavite Naval Yard.
2 days ago · Continuation War. The Continuation War, [f] also known as the Second Soviet-Finnish War, was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union during World War II. It began with a Finnish declaration of war and invasion on 25 June 1941 and ended on 19 September 1944 with the Moscow Armistice.
5 days ago · On December 7, 1941, Japanese airplanes strike the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II. From “The Second World War: Triumph of the Axis” (1963), a documentary by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
3 days ago · World War II - Europe, 1939-41: The German conquest of Poland in September 1939 was the first demonstration in war of the new theory of high-speed armoured warfare that had been adopted by the Germans when their rearmament began.
Jun 29, 2024 · Part of the Strategic bombing campaign and Battle of Britain of World War II. A Heinkel He 111 bomber over the Surrey Commercial Docks in South London and Wapping and the Isle of Dogs in the East End of London on 7 September 1940. Date. 7 September 1940 – 11 May 1941.
4 days ago · 1941 Calendar. User-friendly calendar of 1941, the dates are listed by month including week numbers. View the online 1941 calendar.
5 days ago · A typical Type 1941 motorized (armoured) corps usually has 2 armored divisions and 1 motorized infantry division, and then 2-4 motorized corps form an armored group, which was renamed the "Panzer Army" several times in 1941. Most often, the name is changed when the regular infantry corps is transferred to the armored group.
4 days ago · World War II - Axis Powers, Blitzkrieg, Pacific Theater: It was on January 1, 1942, during the Arcadia Conference, that the Declaration of the United Nations was signed in Washington, D.C., as a collective statement of the Allies' war aims in sequel to the Atlantic Charter.
