1941
A coup in Yugoslavia by General Simonic and other army officers overthrows the pro-German government. King Peter takes control and a new cabinet is formed. This upsets Hitler, who decides to delay his surprise attack on the Soviet Union in order to launch “Operation Union”, whose intent is the destruction of Yugoslavia.
British troops finally take Keren, although they suffer nearly 4,000 casualties in the process, while the Italians lose some 3,000 men. The Italians are forced to withdraw towards Asmara. The 11th African Division captures Harar in Abyssinia after the Italians have declared it an  ‘open town’.
Tokeo Yoshikawa arrives in Oahu, Hawaii, to begin spying for Japan on the U.S. Fleet at Pearl Harbor.
Under the Lend-Lease Act, US signs 99-year lease on British bases in the western hemisphere and approves $7 billion in aid to Britain.
1942
The British raid the Nazi submarine base at St. Nazaire, France
Filippino President and Government arrive in Australia.
The start of deportation of French Jews to Auschwitz.
One thousand Jews leave Drancy, France for the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1943
Germans delay British/New Zealanders at Tebaga Gap and retreat to Wadi Akarit, Tunisia.
The United Stages Navy defeats the Japanese in thebattle of Komondorski Islands in Aleutians, the longest continuous gun battle in history of US Navy.
1944
Thousands of Jews are murdered in Kaunas, Lithuania. The Gestapo shoots forty Jewish policemen in the Riga, Latvia ghetto.
1945
General Dwight Eisenhower declares that the German defenses on the Western Front have been broken.
The allied bridgehead north of Ruhr is now 700 square miles. 16,257 POW’s are taken for 6,781 allied casualties in four days. The U.S. Third Army captures Aschaffenburg.
The 1,115th and last V2 to reach England lands in Kynaston Rd., Orpington, Kent, England.
Bitter street fighting in Danzig as the Russians force their way into the City defences. A German counterattack from the Frankfurt bridgehead toward Kastrin bogs down after only a few miles.
B-29s lay mines in Japan’s Shimonoseki Strait to interrupt shipping.