WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO NOVEMBER 1941
Find out what all happened September to November 1941

After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore is completed. (31. October 1941)

The Holocaust: Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs. (3. September 1941)

World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, is issued. (17. September 1941)

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

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

World War II: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 U.S. Navy sailors. It is the first U.S. Navy vessel sunk by enemy action in WWII. (31. October 1941)

World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations. (30. October 1941)

Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. (4. October 1941)

World War II: In their invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany reaches the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol. (8. October 1941)

World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad. (8. September 1941)

World War II: The Soviet cruiser Chervona Ukraina is destroyed during the Battle of Sevastopol. (12. November 1941)

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

World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen. (19. November 1941)

World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from the German submarine U-81 sustained on November 13. (14. November 1941)

World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day. (13. November 1941)

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

Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia. (11. October 1941)

The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action". (29. October 1941)

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

For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship. (17. October 1941)