WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO DECEMBER 1941
Find out what all happened February to December 1941

World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground, killing 180 of its inhabitants. (3. June 1941)

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

A Luftwaffe air raid on Dublin, Ireland, claims 38 lives. (31. May 1941)

World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada declare war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War. (6. December 1941)

World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China. (20. December 1941)

W47NV (now known as WSM-FM) begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the U.S.. (1. March 1941)

World War II: USMC F4F "Wildcats" sink the first 4 major Japanese ships off Wake Island. (12. December 1941)

World War II: The Axis powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustaše fascist insurgents in power. (10. April 1941)

World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol. (1. December 1941)

World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance. (13. May 1941)

Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin. (12. May 1941)

World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, and the Philippine Commonwealth, declare war on Germany and Japan. (9. December 1941)

World War II: Japanese forces simultaneously invade Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies. (See December 7 for the concurrent attack on Pearl Harbor in the Western Hemisphere.) (8. December 1941)

World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day. (26. June 1941)

World War II: The first gas chamber experiments are conducted at Auschwitz. (3. September 1941)

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

The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. (6. May 1941)

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

Charles Lindbergh's Des Moines Speech accusing the British, Jews and the Roosevelt administration of pressing for war with Germany. (11. September 1941)

World War II: Battle of Crete – German paratroops invade Crete. (20. May 1941)