1941
War Diary of WW2

January 1941

• British capture Bardia in Libya
  WW2 chronology for week from December 30, 1940 - January 5, 1941
• Stukas disrupt Malta convoy
  WW2 chronology for week from January 6, 1941 - January 12, 1941
• Start of Italian East Africa Campaign
  WW2 chronology for week from January 13, 1941 - January 19, 1941
• British capture Tobruk
  WW2 chronology for week from January 20, 1941 - January 26, 1941
• South Africans invade Italian Somaliland
  WW2 chronology for week from January 27, 1941 - February 2, 1941

February 1941

• Battle of Beda Fomm
  WW2 chronology for week from February 3, 1941 - February 9, 1941
• Afrika Korps arrives at Tripoli
  WW2 chronology for week from February 10, 1941 - February 16, 1941
• Gneisenau and Scharnhorst scatter convoy
  WW2 chronology for week from February 17, 1941 - February 23, 1941
• Bulgaria joins Axis
  WW2 chronology for week from February 24, 1941 - March 2, 1941

March 1941

• British troops convoyed from Egypt to Greece
  WW2 chronology for week from March 3, 1941 - March 9, 1941
  
• Roosevelt signs lease-lend bill
  WW2 chronology for week from March 10, 1941 - March 16, 1941
• Heaviest night raid on London since last December
  WW2 chronology for week from March 17, 1941 - March 23, 1941
• Yugoslavia signs Tripartite Pact and Coup d'etat in Belgrade
  WW2 chronology for week from March 24, 1941 - March 30, 1941

April 1941

• German invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece
  WW2 chronology for week from March 31, 1941 - April 6, 1941
• Siege of Tobruk begins
  WW2 chronology for week from April 7, 1941 - April 13, 1941
• Yugoslav army capitulates
  WW2 chronology for week from April 14, 1941 - April 20, 1941
• Last Greek army capitulates
  WW2 chronology for week from April 21, 1941 - April 27, 1941

May 1941

• 8 consecutive night raids on Liverpool
  WW2 chronology for week from April 28, 1941 - May 4, 1941
• Hess flies to Britain
  WW2 chronology for week from May 5 - May 11, 1941
• Operation Brevity: First British Offensive against Afrika Korps
  WW2 chronology for week from May 12 - May 18, 1941
• German airborne invasion of Crete
  WW2 chronology for week from May 19 - May 25, 1941
• Bismarck sunk
  WW2 chronology for week from May 26 - June 1, 1941

June 1941

• British invasion of Syria and Lebanon
  WW2 chronology for week from June 2 - June 8, 1941
• Operation Battleaxe
  WW2 chronology for week from June 9 - June 15, 1941
• German invasion of Russia
  WW2 chronology for week from June 16 - June 22, 1941
• Finland, Hungary and Slovakia declares war on USSR
  WW2 chronology for week from June 23 - June 29, 1941
  

July 1941

• Stalin broadcasts 'scorched earth' policy
  WW2 chronology for week from June 30 - July 6, 1941
• Anglo-Soviet mutual assistance pact
  WW2 chronology for week from July 7 - July 13, 1941
• Battle of Smolensk
  WW2 chronology for week from July 14 - July 20, 1941
• Moscow Blitz
  WW2 chronology for week from July 21 - July 27, 1941
• 'Final Solution' order
  WW2 chronology for week from July 28 - August 3, 1941

August 1941

• Siege of Odessa
  WW2 chronology for week from August 4 - 10, 1941
• Hitler postpones direct advance on Moscow
  WW2 chronology for week from August 11 - 17, 1941
• First convoy to Russia
  WW2 chronology for week from August 18 - 24, 1941
• Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
  WW2 chronology for week from August 25 - 31, 1941

September 1941

• Leningrad encircled
  WW2 chronology for week from September 1 - 7, 1941
• Siege of Leningrad
  WW2 chronology for week from September 8 - 14, 1941
• Battle of Kiev
  WW2 chronology for week from September 15 - 21, 1941
• De Gaulle forms Free French National Committee
  WW2 chronology for week from September 22 - 28, 1941

October 1941

• Operation Taifun
  WW2 chronology for week from September 29 - October 5, 1941
• Battles of Bryansk and Vyazma
  WW2 chronology for week from October 6 - October 12, 1941
• General Tojo forms Japanese cabinet
  WW2 chronology for week from October 13 - October 19, 1941
• Germans capture Kharkov
  WW2 chronology for week from October 20 - October 26, 1941
• Siege of Sebastopol
  WW2 chronology for week from October 27 - November 2, 1941

November 1941

• Stalin's call to defend 'Mother Russia'
  WW2 chronology for week from November 3 - November 9, 1941
• HMS Ark Royal torpedoed
  WW2 chronology for week from November 10 - November 16, 1941
• Operation Crusader
  WW2 chronology for week from November 17 - November 23, 1941
• German offensive stalls only 30 km from Moscow
  WW2 chronology for week from November 24 - November 30, 1941

December 1941

• Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
  WW2 chronology for week from December 1 - December 7, 1941
• Germany and Italy declare war on USA
  WW2 chronology for week from December 8 - December 14, 1941
• Hitler takes personal command of militay operations and issues 'Halt Order'
  WW2 chronology for week from December 15 - December 21, 1941
• First Washington conference
  WW2 chronology for week from December 22 - December 28, 1941