1941: A SUMMARY OF THE YEAR

Jan 5:  British capture Bardia,North Africa.
Jan 21: British attack Italians in Tobruk.
Jan 22: British capture Tobruk.
Jan 30: N.Africa- Australians capture Derna.
Feb 4 : 7th Armoured divsion captures Msus.Coombe force detached to cut
        off the Italian retreat at Beda Fomm.
Feb 6:  Australians capture Benghazi.
Feb 7:  Italians surrender at Beda Fomm, 20,000 prisoners taken.
Feb 12: Rommel arrives in Tripoli.
Mar 7:  British forces arrive at Athens.
Apr 6:  Germans invade Greece and Yugoslavia.
Apr 13: Japan and USSR sign non-agression pact.
Apr 17: Yugoslavia surrenders to Germans.
Apr 22: Greece surrenders to Germans.
Apr27/28 - 43,000 Allied troops are evacuated from Greece.
May 20: Germans invade Crete.
May 21: HMS Hood sunk by Bismark.
May 27: Bismark sunk.
May 31: Allies evacuate Crete.
Jun 22: Beginning of German invasion of USSR - `Operation Barbarossa`
Jun 29: Minsk pocket is closed encirlcing 100,000`s of Red Army troops.
Jul 1:  Fall of Riga.
Jul 5:  German forces reach River Dnieper.
Jul 9:  Rivers Dvina and Dnieper crossed, Smolensk is threatened.
Jul 12: First bombing of Moscow by Luftwaffe.
Jul 14: German forces reach River Luga.
Jul 17: Dnieper crossed at Mogilev.
Jul 26: US freeze Japanese assets in the USA.
Jul 27: Smolensk pocket is closed.
Jul 31: Army Group North reaches Lake Ilmen.
Aug 1:  Russian counter-attack from the Pripet marshes.
Aug 7:  First Russian air raid on Berlin.
Aug 12: Army Group Centre splits to send panzers north and south.
Aug 23: Guderian heading rapdily towards Kleist.
Aug 29: Finnish army captures Viipuri.
Sep 12: Kiev pocket is closed.
Sep 15: Leningrad cut off from the rest of the USSR.
Sep 25: Start of the siege of Sevastapol.
Sep 26: Kiev pocket eliminated - Germans now only 200 miles from Moscow.
Oct 2:  Beginning of Operation Typhoon - assault on Moscow.
Oct 6:  Kleist reaches Sea of Azov.
Oct 13: Vyazma pocket is eliminated.
Oct 14: German advance reaches Kalinin.
Oct 15: Odessa evacuated by sea.
Oct 19: Moscow evacuated but Stalin stays put.
Nov 9 : Germans capture Yalta.
Nov 15: Assault on Moscow is renewed.
Nov 18: North Africa - beginning of Operation Crusader.
Nov 21: Fall of Rostov.
Nov 23: Capture of Klin.
Nov 24: Russians recapture Rostov.
Dec 3:  Hitler halts the drive on Moscow.
Dec 6:  Russian counter-offensive begins.
Dec 7:  Pearl Harbor attacked by Japanese.
Dec 8:  Rommel abandons fight and Tobruk is relieved.
Dec 8:  US and Great Britain declare war on Japan.
Dec 8:  Japanese forces land at Kota Bahru.Singapore is bombed.
Dec 10: Prince of Wales and Repulse sunk by Japanase dive bombers.
Dec 15: Soviets reocuupy Klin and Kalinin.
Dec 17: Germans begin final assault on Sevastapol.
Dec 26: Russians begin counter-attack in the Crimea.
Dec 30: Russians recapture Tula.