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1941.
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September 1941.
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Map of German European expansion.
Germans forces within 30 miles of Leningrad.
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1st
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All Jews over age of 6
ordered to wear yellow star with word Jew written on
it.
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Germans use carbon monoxide to kill mental patients and
other undesirables in Auschwitz.
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4th
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Paris. Legion of French Volunteers join German army on
Eastern front.
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5th.
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German forces complete occupation of Estonia.
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6th
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Nazis establish a large and small ghetto at Vilna in
Poland.
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Japanese government decide war preparations should be
completed in six weeks.
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7th
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Execution of Pierre Roche, French Resistance fighter, in
Paris.
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6th.
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German aircraft sink US merchant ship Steel Seafarer.
British submarine Upholder sinks Italian troop ships. 384
people drowned.
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8th
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Germans arrest 120 Jewish leaders in Paris as hostages
for the murder of a German officer.
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9th
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STILL CAPTAIN OF OUR
SOULS
Churchill speaks to the
HOUSE OF
COMMONS
September 9,
1941
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600,000 ethnic German Germans, residents of the Volga
region, deported to Siberia.
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RAF bombers heavily damage Berlin.
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12th
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German U
Boats
U-boat torpedoes U.S. cargo ship Montana.
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14th
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Germans shoot 12 of Jewish hostages taken in Paris.
RAF unit arrives in USSR to aid Russian Air Force.
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3,434 Jews murdered at Ponary in Poland.
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16th.
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Hamburg heavily bombed by RAF.
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10 French hostages executed in reprisals.
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Keitel orders 100 Russians to be executed for every
German soldier killed by partisans.
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18th
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President
Roosevelt
Roosevelt asks Congress for 6,000 million dollars for
lend-lease.
British offer Radar top Russians.
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19th
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Canadian escort ship Levis sunk by U boat.
Kiev falls to the Germans.
Germans cut off the Crimea peninsula from the rest of the
USSR
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September 1941.
22nd
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A squad of SS trained Ukrainian militia kill 28,000 Jews
in Binnitsa.
First German U boat enters Mediterranean through straits
of Gibraltar.
German soldiers massacre the entire population of
Krasnaya Gora after partisans kill 3 German sentries.
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29th
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RAF bombers raid Stettin and Hamburg.
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30th.
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German troops in France ordered to send their blankets to
German army in Russia.
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Eastern Front German Generals alarmed at the level of
depression and suicide amongst German soldiers.
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War at Sea
US navy ordered to sink all German/Italian shipping found
in home waters.
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First batch of LIBERTY ships launched in USA. (Mass
produced - each in 6 weeks!)
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OCTOBER 1941.
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1st
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3,000 Jews shot dead in Ponary woods.
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2nd
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Lithuania. 2,146 Jews machine-gunned to death.
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3rd
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Nazis dynamite six synagogues in Paris.
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Gandhi calls on all subjects of British Rahj to start a
campaign of passive resistance.
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Hitler tells a rally that Russia has been crushed "and will never rise again".
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4th
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Hitler warns Norway to co-operate or face starvation.
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6th
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100.000 Soviet troops taken
prisoner and SS Adolf Hitler division captures most of
Soviet ninth army at Berdyansk.
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7th
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Poland at Rovno 17,000 Jews stripped and shot dead in
pits - those who refused to undress had their eyes gouged
out.
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8th.
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Mud and rain severely hinder German progress on Russian
front but take Orel.
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27th.
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Mussolini calls on Japanese to pull their weight by
waging war on Britain.
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9th.
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Roosevelt asks Congress to arm US merchant ships.
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10th
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A German Referendum approving annexation in Luxembourg
fails when 97 per cent abstain.
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12th
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USAAF Liberator Bomber
and crew.
Bombers make large scale raid on Nuremberg.
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16th
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500,000 men, women and children complete new defences
around Moscow with 177 miles of trenches, 60 miles of
anti-tank ditches and 5000 miles of barbed wire.
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20th
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Russian government leaves Moscow.
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Resistance fighters assassinate Karl Holz in Nantes in
France.
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21st
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Germans and local fascists massacre 2,300 Serbs for
partisan attacks.
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22nd
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50 French hostages shot by the Germans for the killing of
a German officer in Nantes.
A further 150 hostages shot in Bordeaux for the
assassination of a German officer.
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23rd
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De Gaulle asks Resistance members to stop murdering
German military personnel to avoid further retaliation
against the French populace.
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24th
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Germans execute 50 hostages in Bordeaux.
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Eichmann approves a scheme to gas Jews using exhaust
fumes of specially adapted vans.
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25th
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Churchill condemns German reprisals.
Germans take Karkov in the Ukraine.
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26th
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RAF attacks Hamburg with 115 bombers.
Stalino is evacuated buy the Russians.
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27th
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Germans kill 290 Jews from an old peoples home in the
first trial of a van specially adapted to suffocate them
with exhaust fumes.
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The Battle of the
Atlantic
HMS Cossack torpedoed by U boat.
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9,000 Jews including 4273 children massacred by Germans
in Lithuania.
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29th
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Churchill visits his old
School
Never give in. Never give in.
Never, never, never, never -
in nothing great or small, large or petty -
never give
in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
Churchill Harrow 1941.
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30th
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Roosevelt gives USSR 1000 million interest free loan.
RAF carries out a devastating raid on German Naval base
at Aalesund in Norway.
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31st
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Hitler says that there are no Jews left in Lithuania.
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261 killed, 361 injured in air raids over UK in October.
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November 1941.
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1st
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US ambassador sends second telegram to Roosevelt warning
that the Japanese are planning to attack an American target.
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3rd
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Germans capture Kursk (USSR).
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4th
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British woman who refused to sign up for war work fined
£2.
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7th.
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Minsk (USSR) 12,000 Jews murdered and buried in mass
graves outside city.
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RAF bombers attack Cologne, Berlin, Mannheim.
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8th
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Germans surround
Leningrad.
Germans occupy Yalta and complete the encirclement of
Leningrad.
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11th
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Lend-lease extended to Free French.
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12th
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HMS Ark Royal and Argos succeed in delivering to Malta 34
hurricanes.
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14th November 1941.
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Churchill, writing to the Jewish Chronicle on its
centenary "None has suffered more
cruelly than the Jew by the unspeakable evils wrought by
Hitler and his vile regime"
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HMS Ark Royal sunk near
Gibraltar
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15th
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Heedless of common sense - of even history - the German
invaders of Russia discovered to their shock that due to
extreme cold only 150 of their 10,150 tanks are operational.
The absence of warm clothing for the soldiers caused
thousands to suffer or die from frostbite.
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18th
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In an act of tremendous
heroism 11 Red Army engineers hold back 20 German
tanks.
General Sir Alan Brooke takes over as Chief of Imperial
General Staff.
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19th
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British and Commonwealth Forces begin major attack upon
the Germans and Italians in North Africa.
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20th
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Rostov-on-Don falls to Germans. This was to be as far as
the Germans invaded a distance from Berlin of 1000 miles.
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Food rations cut for fifth time in two months. The plight
of all defending the city was extreme. When the ice on the
lake was strong enough supplies would be driven across - but
not before thousands had died.
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22nd November 1941.
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The Royal
Navy
HMS Devonshire sinks German raider Atlantis which had
sunk 22 allied ships.
New Zealand troops re-take Bardia in North Africa.
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24th
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Germans forced to evacuate Rostov-on-Don.
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HMS Dunedin sunk by U boat.
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27th
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Australian sloop Paramatta sunk off Tobruk, killing 138.
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Red Army occupies Rostov-on-Dom.
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30th
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Field Marshall Gerd Von Rundstedt is sacked as commander
of German Army after abandoning Rostov-on-Don in
contravention of an order from Hitler never to withdraw.
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December 1941
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1st
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Leningrad. 11,000 people die from cold and starvation.
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Lithuania. Colonel Karl Jaeger of the SS reports to
Hitler that his force has killed 23,000 Baltic Jews since
June.
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Appalling damage at
Valetta
Malta. Island has its 1,000th air raid.
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2nd
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Tokyo. The Japanese Prime Minister rejects US proposals
for peace and secretly orders bombing of Pearl Harbour.
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Battleships HMS Prince
of Wales and Repulse arrive in Singapore to boost
defences.
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4th
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Land girls
Parliament orders all women from 18 to 40 to register for
war work.
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5th
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Japan assures USA that its build up of troops in
Indochina is purely defensive.
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Hitler halts Moscow offensive because of bad weather, and
orders to leave Russia for Mediterranean.
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Red Army launch major counter-offensive.
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6th
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HMS Perseus (submarine) sunk by a mine. Only one survivor
who swims 10 miles to shore.
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7th
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Japan attacks Pearl
Harbour by air and its navy bombards Midway
island.
Admiral Nagumo
The Japanese War Lord
responsible for the attack on the US Navy in Pearl
Harbour
It was the surprise (?) attack on USA Navy at Pearl
Harbour that brought American public opinion round to the
need to join the war and defeat Germany and Japan. It is
claimed by some historians that Roosevelt knew about
Japanese plans to attack the US Navy.
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700 Jews in Kolo in Poland deported to Chelmno.
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8th December 1941
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Japan air force bombs US air base at Clark Field in
Manila.
US islands of Wake and Gaum fall to Japanese.
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Japan invades Thailand which surrenders.
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Japan bombs Hong Kong.
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Libya. Allies retake Sidi Rezegh and begin to relieve
garrison at Tobruk.
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9th
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China declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy.
Britain declares war on Japan.
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10th
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HMS Prince of Wales and
HMS Repulse
Japanese air craft sink HMS Prince of Wales and HMS
Repulse. Churchill says that for him this was the worst day
in the entire war. Over 600 men drowned. It left the Pacific
Ocean open to the Japanese Navy.
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Japan takes Guam in Pacific.
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11th
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After receiving declarations of war from Italy and
Germany the USA declares war on them.
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12th
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Japan invades Burma.
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14th
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HMS Galatea sunk by U boat off Alexandria.
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15th
December 1941
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Germans execute communist Gabriel Peri and 100 hostages
in Paris.
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Russians recapture Kalinin. The great encirclement
battles of Kiev and Smolensk and the German defeat outside
Moscow (bigger than Stalingrad) destroys so many tanks that
they never recover from it.
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Crimea. In 3 days Nazis have killed 14300 Jews.
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British army attacks Rommel and his Afrika Korp at
Gazala.
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16th
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Red Army captures Kalinin from German 9th army.
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