WHAT ALL HAPPENED OCTOBER TO NOVEMBER 1941
Find out what all happened October to November 1941

World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 °C as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city. (12. November 1941)

German troops execute the male population of the villages Kerdyllia in Serres, Greece. (17. October 1941)

World War II: Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov takes command of Red Army operations to prevent the further advance into Russia of German forces and to prevent the Wehrmacht from capturing Moscow. (23. October 1941)

American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography. (1. November 1941)

For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship. (17. October 1941)

World War II: In Kragujevac, Serbia, German Wehrmacht soldiers massacred about 7,000 citizens, including schoolchildren and professors. (21. October 1941)

World War II: In Slonim, German forces engaged in Operation Barbarossa murdered 9000 Jews in a single day. (14. November 1941)

World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen. (19. November 1941)

1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp. (30. October 1941)

World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day. (13. November 1941)

World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations. (30. October 1941)

World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow. (2. October 1941)

World War II: The Soviet cruiser Chervona Ukraina is destroyed during the Battle of Sevastopol. (12. November 1941)

World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer. (22. October 1941)

Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. (4. October 1941)

HMS Barham (04) was sunk by a German torpedo during World War II. (25. November 1941)

Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia. (11. October 1941)

World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces. (24. November 1941)

World War II: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 U.S. Navy sailors. It is the first U.S. Navy vessel sunk by enemy action in WWII. (31. October 1941)

World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from the German submarine U-81 sustained on November 13. (14. November 1941)