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| 1941 May 10 |
| | | Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy in the Nazi party, flies to Britain on a bizarre secret mission | |
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| 1941 May 15 |
| | | A Gloster E.28/39 air frame becomes the first craft to fly with a Whittle jet engine | |
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| 1941 May 19 |
| | | The Vietminh is founded as a guerrilla force to liberate Vietnam from the Japanese, and Ho Chi Minh soon emerges as the leader | |
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| 1941 May 27 |
| | | Germany's latest battleship, the Bismarck, is sunk in the Atlantic with the loss of nearly all her 2222 crew | |
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| 1941 May 27 |
| | | With Iceland as an Allied base, convoys can now be escorted by warships for the entire Atlantic crossing | |
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| 1941 May |
| | | German forces evict the British from the island of Crete after a week-long battle | |
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| 1919 June 22 |
| | | German armies cross the border to invade Russia on a front from the Baltic to southern Poland | |
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| 1941 June 27 |
| | | June 27 - the Communist Party of Yugoslavia appoints Tito to head a guerrilla force to resist the recent German invasion of the country | |
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| 1941 July |
| | | Churchill appoints Claude Auchinleck as British commander in North Africa and the Middle East | |
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| 1941 July |
| | | The systematic shooting of Russian Jews by German Einsatzgruppen is the first step in the development of the Holocaust | |
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