WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO OCTOBER 1941
Find out what all happened May to October 1941

The SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships. (27. September 1941)

Anglo-Iraqi War: The United Kingdom completes the re-occupation of Iraq and returns 'Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for Faisal II. (31. May 1941)

The June Uprising in Lithuania begins. (22. June 1941)

World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow. (2. October 1941)

First flight of the Gloster E.28/39 the first British and Allied Jet Aircraft. (15. May 1941)

1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp. (30. October 1941)

World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks then-pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen. (24. May 1941)

World War II: Concerned that Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, is about to ally his petroleum-rich empire with Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union invade Iran in late August and force the Shah to abdicate in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. (16. September 1941)

The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later. (23. June 1941)

Japanese troops occupy French Indochina. (27. July 1941)

World War II: Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing. (5. June 1941)

The Drama Uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece begins. (28. September 1941)

Ground is broken for the construction of The Pentagon. (11. September 1941)

Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv. (4. July 1941)

World War II: In Kragujevac, Serbia, German Wehrmacht soldiers massacred about 7,000 citizens, including schoolchildren and professors. (21. October 1941)

German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa. (27. June 1941)

Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 07:12, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for espionage. (15. August 1941)

A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president. (9. October 1941)

German troops execute the male population of the villages Kerdyllia in Serres, Greece. (17. October 1941)

World War II: German troops reach the Dnieper River. (5. July 1941)