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ISBN 1-56389-743-1. World's Finest Archives Volume 3. ISBN 1-4012-0411-2. World's Finest Comics is an American comic book series published by DC Comics from 1941 to 1986. The series was initially titled World's Best Comics for its first issue; issue #2 (Summer 1941) switched to the more familiar name.
Spring 1941. Shakespeare in Love's Joseph Fiennes stars in this epic period drama where not only war surrounds but love, betrayal and danger. As Nazi Germany dominate the Poland, Jewish doctor Artur, his wife Clara and daughters seek safety. They are taken in by their local grocer Emilia.
Bibliography. v. t. e. This is a timeline of events of World War II in 1939 from the start of the war on 1 September 1939. For events preceding September 1, 1939, see the timeline of events preceding World War II . Germany 's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 brought many countries into the war. This event, and the declaration of war by ...
14 escorts in relays. Operation Dervish (21–31 August 1941) was the first of the Arctic Convoys of the Second World War by which the Western Allies supplied material to the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany. Included in the convoy was the personnel and equipment of an RAF Wing, for the air defence of the Russian ports, several civilians and ...
The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km (370 mi) sector of the Eastern Front during World War II, between September 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler 's attack on Moscow, the capital and largest city of the Soviet Union.
8 December — The Nazi German extermination camp Chelmno opens in occupied Poland near a small village called Chełmno nad Nerem. Between December 1941-April 1943 and June 1944-January 1945 at least 153,000 people were killed in the camp. 11 December — Germany and Italy declare war on the United States. 19 December — Hitler becomes Supreme ...
The spring 1945 offensive in Italy, codenamed Operation Grapeshot, was the final Allied attack during the Italian Campaign in the final stages of the Second World War. [8] The attack in the Lombard Plain by the 15th Allied Army Group started on 6 April 1945 and ended on 2 May with the surrender of German forces in Italy .
