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2 days ago · September 23 – The 1941 Texas hurricane makes landfall near Bay City, Texas, causing extensive damage and flooding in Galveston and Houston. WWII: The National Liberation Front (Greece) (the main Greek Resistance movement) is established, and Georgios Siantos is appointed its first acting leader.
6 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 13, 2024 · The Battle of Crete took place from May 20 to June 1, 1941, during World War II. It began with an airborne assault by Nazi Germany on the Greek island of Crete. It was the first major parachute attack in the history of warfare.
- Adrian Gilbert
1 day ago · Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa; Russian: Операция Барбаросса, romanized: Operatsiya Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War.
- 22 June 1941 – 7 January 1942, (6 months, 2 weeks and 2 days)
- Axis captured approximately 600,000 square kilometres of Soviet territory but failed to reach the A-A line
- Soviet Victory, Axis operational failure
2 days ago · However, it is more widely accepted that the Pacific War itself began on 7 December (8 December Japanese time) 1941, when the Japanese simultaneously attacked American military bases in Hawaii, Wake Island, Guam, and the Philippines, the British colonies of Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong, and invaded Thailand.
- 7 December 1941 – 2 September 1945, (3 years, 8 months, 3 weeks and 5 days)
19 hours ago · 210–300 aircraft captured [10] 3 destroyers captured. 3 submarines captured. The invasion of Yugoslavia, also known as the April War [a] or Operation 25, [b] was a German -led attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers which began on 6 April 1941 during World War II.
