WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO MAY 1941
Find out what all happened March to May 1941

World War II: The U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency". (27. May 1941)

World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages. (9. May 1941)

World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships. (16. April 1941)

Viet Minh, a communist coalition, formed at Cao Bang Province, Vietnam. (19. May 1941)

World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan – in the Mediterranean Sea, British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham leads the Royal Navy in the destruction of three major Italian heavy cruisers and two destroyers. (28. March 1941)

World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men. (27. May 1941)

The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact. (25. March 1941)

Emmanouil Tsouderos becomes the 132nd Prime Minister of Greece. (21. April 1941)

World War II: Rommel attacks Tobruk. (14. April 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)

Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines takes its first flight between Manila (from Nielson Field) to Baguio City with a Beechcraft Model 18 making the airline the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name. (15. March 1941)

World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan. (11. March 1941)

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

In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. (17. March 1941)

World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-Axis government in a bloodless coup. (27. March 1941)

World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany. (17. April 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: German troops enter Athens. (27. April 1941)

World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands; the first large scale British Commando raid. (4. March 1941)