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- 1941: A SUMMARY OF THE YEAR
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- Jan 5: British capture Bardia,North Africa.
- Jan 21: British attack Italians in Tobruk.
- Jan 22: British capture Tobruk.
- Jan 30: N.Africa- Australians capture Derna.
- Feb 4 : 7th Armoured divsion captures Msus.Coombe force detached to cut
- off the Italian retreat at Beda Fomm.
- Feb 6: Australians capture Benghazi.
- Feb 7: Italians surrender at Beda Fomm, 20,000 prisoners taken.
- Feb 12: Rommel arrives in Tripoli.
- Mar 7: British forces arrive at Athens.
- Apr 6: Germans invade Greece and Yugoslavia.
- Apr 13: Japan and USSR sign non-agression pact.
- Apr 17: Yugoslavia surrenders to Germans.
- Apr 22: Greece surrenders to Germans.
- Apr27/28 - 43,000 Allied troops are evacuated from Greece.
- May 20: Germans invade Crete.
- May 21: HMS Hood sunk by Bismark.
- May 27: Bismark sunk.
- May 31: Allies evacuate Crete.
- Jun 22: Beginning of German invasion of USSR - `Operation Barbarossa`
- Jun 29: Minsk pocket is closed encirlcing 100,000`s of Red Army troops.
- Jul 1: Fall of Riga.
- Jul 5: German forces reach River Dnieper.
- Jul 9: Rivers Dvina and Dnieper crossed, Smolensk is threatened.
- Jul 12: First bombing of Moscow by Luftwaffe.
- Jul 14: German forces reach River Luga.
- Jul 17: Dnieper crossed at Mogilev.
- Jul 26: US freeze Japanese assets in the USA.
- Jul 27: Smolensk pocket is closed.
- Jul 31: Army Group North reaches Lake Ilmen.
- Aug 1: Russian counter-attack from the Pripet marshes.
- Aug 7: First Russian air raid on Berlin.
- Aug 12: Army Group Centre splits to send panzers north and south.
- Aug 23: Guderian heading rapdily towards Kleist.
- Aug 29: Finnish army captures Viipuri.
- Sep 12: Kiev pocket is closed.
- Sep 15: Leningrad cut off from the rest of the USSR.
- Sep 25: Start of the siege of Sevastapol.
- Sep 26: Kiev pocket eliminated - Germans now only 200 miles from Moscow.
- Oct 2: Beginning of Operation Typhoon - assault on Moscow.
- Oct 6: Kleist reaches Sea of Azov.
- Oct 13: Vyazma pocket is eliminated.
- Oct 14: German advance reaches Kalinin.
- Oct 15: Odessa evacuated by sea.
- Oct 19: Moscow evacuated but Stalin stays put.
- Nov 9 : Germans capture Yalta.
- Nov 15: Assault on Moscow is renewed.
- Nov 18: North Africa - beginning of Operation Crusader.
- Nov 21: Fall of Rostov.
- Nov 23: Capture of Klin.
- Nov 24: Russians recapture Rostov.
- Dec 3: Hitler halts the drive on Moscow.
- Dec 6: Russian counter-offensive begins.
- Dec 7: Pearl Harbor attacked by Japanese.
- Dec 8: Rommel abandons fight and Tobruk is relieved.
- Dec 8: US and Great Britain declare war on Japan.
- Dec 8: Japanese forces land at Kota Bahru.Singapore is bombed.
- Dec 10: Prince of Wales and Repulse sunk by Japanase dive bombers.
- Dec 15: Soviets reocuupy Klin and Kalinin.
- Dec 17: Germans begin final assault on Sevastapol.
- Dec 26: Russians begin counter-attack in the Crimea.
- Dec 30: Russians recapture Tula.
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