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U.S. Tank Commander1940: Lord Halifax rejects Hitler’s ‘peace proposals'. The Special Operations Executive (SOE) is created in order to encourage resistance across occupied Europe.
1940: Konoye leads his 2nd Cabinet-policy of "opportunism" to create new order with Manchukuo and Wang Ching-wei regime in China.
1941: German onslaught stopped at Lake Ilmen, south of Novgorod by fatigue and marshes.
1941: The Luftwaffe launches its first bombing raid on Moscow with 127 aircraft, but achieve minimal results.
1942: The first gas ration coupons are issued in the United States. With a special no-limit X pass for such essential personnel as doctors, policemen, and firemen. Members of Congress, viewing themselves as essential, arrange to obtain the X coupons as well, but public outcry forces them to reconsider.
1942: Auchinleck musters 323 tanks against Rommel’s 92 in the second battle of Ruweisat (“Kidney”) Ridge, but loses 131 tanks and 2,600 men.
1942: Treblinka concentration camp is opened, which initiates new deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto. The deportation of Belgian Jews to Auschwitz begins.
1943: Patton’s 2nd Armored Division captures Palermo and surrounds 45,000 Italian troops in western Sicily.
1944: The Russian advance into Baltic States continues with the capture of Panevezys in Lithuania. The Brody Pocket is eliminated by the Russians, who take 17,000 prisoners.
1944: The last organized Japanese resistance on Biak ends.
*1938: The Third Reich issues special identity cards for Jewish Germans.
Prince Fumimaro Konoye of Japan (READ COVER STORY)
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