1940
Britain reduces passenger train service due to coal shortage.
1941
Third and final day of Swansea Blitz (Luftwaffe bombing of Swansea, Wales): 230 killed, but docks and facilities are undamaged.
1942
Convoy ON-166 (60 ships) sailing from Britain to North America, is attacked in the North Atlantic by 19 U-boats from wolfpacks Ritter and Knappen between the 21st and 26th February. 14 allied ships are lost for 87,901 tons. 4 U-boats U-225, U-606, U-529, U623 were sunk during the battle.
House of Representatives begins hearings about removal of Japanese-Americans from West Coast.
German spy Bernard Julius Otto Kuehn convicted of espionage for sending information about Pearl Harbor to the Japanese before and during the attack.
1943
The 25th Anniversary of the creation of the Red Army is celebrated in all allied countries.
1944
U.S. Marines complete the capture of Eniwetok Atoll, suffering 339 dead.
Hideki Tojo becomes chief of staff of the Japanese army.
1945
The 1st Ukrainian Front captures Guben.
The US 8th Air Force bombs Nurnberg with over 1,000 bombers.
The British 2nd Division establishes another Irrawaddy bridgehead, while the British 36th Division breaks through at Myitson, in northern Burma. Meanwhile further British forces cross the Irrawaddy in central Burma.
Off Iwo Jima, Japanese kamikazes sink US escort carrier Bismarck Sea and damage the Aircraft Carriers Saratoga and Lunga Point.
US Sixth Army secures Bataan Peninsula on Luzon.
Scottish Olympic runner Eric Liddell (memorialized in Chariots of Fire) dies in Japanese internment camp in China, where he had served as a missionary.