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USS Hornet (CV-8), late 1941 (US Naval History & Heritage Command: NH 81313) 85 Years Ago—Oct. 20, 1941: Carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) is commissioned under Capt.

Women and elderly men from Moscow digging tank trap outside the city, Oct. 1941 (public domain via United States Information Agency) 85 Years Ago—Oct. 19, 1941: Stalin announces he’ll stay in Moscow, and he declares a state of siege.

British poster for Target for Tonight (Imperial War Museum: Art.IWM PST 4015) 85 Years Ago—Oct. 18, 1941: Gen.

Destroyer USS Kearny at Reykjavik, Iceland, 19 October 1941, two days after being torpedoed by U-568; destroyer USS Monssen is alongside; note the torpedo hole (US Naval History and Heritage Command: 80-G-28788) 85 Years Ago—Oct. 17, 1941: In Convoy SC-48…

Soviet poster urging defense of Moscow, October 1941 85 Years Ago—Oct. 16, 1941: Except for Stalin, the Soviet government evacuates from Moscow to Kuibyshev.

Abandoned Soviet vehicles and barricades in Odessa soon after capture by Germans, October 1941 (public domain via Wikipedia) 85 Years Ago—Oct. 15, 1941: As the Germans advance, the Soviets evacuate 35,000 troops from Odessa in Ukraine by sea in one night…

Map of the German advance on Moscow, 26 Aug-5 Dec 1941(The History Department of the United States Military Academy) 85 Years Ago—Oct. 14, 1941: Germans encircle 6 Soviet armies near Vyazma and take Vyazma.

German night-fighter unit badge, WWII (public domain via Wikipedia) 85 Years Ago—Oct. 13, 1941: Hitler orders Luftwaffe to stop night intruder raids against British air bases, although they were effective.

German infantrymen fighting in Russia, fall 1941 (US National Archives: 242-GAP-286B-4) 85 Years Ago—Oct. 12, 1941: Germans take Bryansk, Russia.

Freddy Martin in the movie Stage Door Canteen, 1943 (public domain via Wikipedia) 85 Years Ago—Oct. 11, 1941: Encircled Soviet 3rd & 13th Armies at Bryansk, Russia, break out.

Yevdokiya Bershanskaya, 1943, leader of the Soviet 588th Night Bomber Regiment the only woman awarded the Order of Suvorov; under her command twenty-three aviators in the regiment became Heroes of the Soviet Union (public domain via Ministry of Culture of…

John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia, 1942 (National Library of Australia: 137128148) 85 Years Ago—Oct. 7, 1941: To boost morale in the USSR as the Germans advance, Stalin lifts the ban on religion and permits many churches to reopen.

US poster featuring Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom from Want,” 1943 85 Years Ago—Oct. 6, 1941: US House of Representatives declares Thanksgiving to be the last Thursday in November, as it was from 1863-1939, later amended to the fourth Thursday (Read more: Th…

US Supreme Court Louis Brandeis on the cover of Time Magazine, 19 Oct 1925 (public domain via Wikipedia) 85 Years Ago—Oct. 5, 1941: Field Marshal Paul von Kleist is named commander of German 1st Panzer Army and Gen.

British poster praising shipbuilding, WWII (Imperial War Museum: Art.IWM PST 13993) 85 Years Ago—Oct. 4, 1941: German U-boats first attack British supply line between Alexandria, Egypt, and besieged Tobruk, Libya.

Warner Brothers poster for The Maltese Falcon, 1941 (public domain via Wikipedia) 85 Years Ago—Oct. 3, 1941: Dwight D.

German armored column advances on the Moscow front, October 1941 (Public domain via Wydawnictwo Prasowe Kraków-Warszawa: 2-882) 85 Years Ago—Oct. 2, 1941: German Army Group Center launches an offensive toward Moscow.

WAVES man a war bonds booth at a midwestern naval air station, WWII (US Navy photo 80-G-K-14170) 85 Years Ago—Oct. 1, 1941: US signs contract to send military aircraft to the USSR (15,000 sent during the war).

Soldiers of Japanese 4th Division man Type 92 heavy machine gun near Miluo River in China, Second Battle of Changsha, 22 or 23 Sep 1941 (public domain via Wikipedia) 85 Years Ago—Sept. 30, 1941: Chinese defeat Japanese in the Second Battle of Changsha.

Map of US Navy Western Atlantic and Canal Zone Defense Area in WWII (Source: US Navy) 85 Years Ago—Sept. 29, 1941: Babyn Yar Massacre begins: German SS begins 2-day massacre of 33,771 Jews from Kiev in Ukraine.

Baseball card for Boston Red Sox left fielder Ted Williams, 1940 (Wikipedia, public domain) 85 Years Ago—Sept. 28, 1941: Free French declare independence of Syria and Lebanon.

Liberty ship SS Patrick Henry launching in Baltimore, MD, on Liberty Fleet Day, 27 September 1941 (National Museum of the US Navy: Lot-3452-6) 85 Years Ago—Sept. 27, 1941: Liberty Fleet Day: US launches first 14 Liberty cargo ships, led by SS Patrick Henry

Poster for the US Army Corps of the Military Police, WWII 85 Years Ago—Sept. 26, 1941: Gen.

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Poster with Charles De Gaulle’s speech to France on the BBC, 18 Jun 1940 (public domain via National Library of France) 85 Years Ago—Sept. 24, 1941: Fifteen Allied nations (including neutral US) and governments-in-exile agree to follow the principles of t…

Battleship USS Massachusetts, Battleship Cove, Fall River MA (Photo: Sarah Sundin, July 2014) 85 Years Ago—Sept. 23, 1941: Germans declare French men who help downed British airmen will be shot; women will be sent to concentration camps.

King George II of Greece, 1942 (Library of Congress: fsa.8e00859) 85 Years Ago—Sept. 22, 1941: King George II of Greece and the Greek government arrive in London to form a government-in-exile.

Luftwaffe aerial photograph of the damaged Soviet battleship Marat in Kronstadt, leaking oil, 27 September 1941 (Luftwaffe photo, public domain via Wikipedia) 85 Years Ago—Sept. 21, 1941: At Kronstadt, Russia, Luftwaffe Ju 87 Stuka bombers heavily damage…

Vichy French propaganda poster featuring Marshal Pétain and motto of the French State, “Travail, Famille, Patrie” (work, family, fatherland), 1942 (Public domain via Wikipedia) 85 Years Ago—Sept. 20, 1941: Vichy France abolishes local teachers colleges (é…

German sentinel in the citadel of Kiev with the burning Dnieper River Bridge in the background, 20 September 1941 (German Federal Archive: Bild 183-L20208) 85 Years Ago—Sept. 19, 1941: Germans take Kiev in Ukraine and 665,000 Soviet POWs.

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Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr at Copenhagen Conference, 1934 (US Department of Energy photo) 85 Years Ago—Sept. 17, 1941: US begins escorting British convoys from Newfoundland to Iceland, violating neutrality: five destroyers begin escorting Convoy HX-…

Mohamed Reza Pahlavi on his inauguration as Shah of Iran, 17 September 1941 (public domain via Wikipedia) 85 Years Ago—Sept. 16, 1941: German army orders that 50-100 communist hostages are to be killed for every German killed by resistance members in occu…

Quartermaster Supply Unit during Louisiana Maneuvers, September 1941 (Library of Congress AS-124-LC) 85 Years Ago—Sept. 15, 1941: British 1st Parachute Battalion is established, Britain’s first airborne unit.

Fire in Kiev’s main street, possibly due to Soviet mine, September 1941.

Soviet soldiers in Leningrad, Russia, 28 Sep 1941 (public domain via WW2 Database) 80 Years Ago—Sept. 13, 1941: German army decides Soviet POWs will have smaller rations than other POWs.

USCG cutter Northland in Greenland, 1944 (US Coast Guard photo) 85 Years Ago—Sept. 12, 1941: In Mackenzie Bay, Greenland, US Coast Guard cutters Northland and North Star seize Norwegian trawler Buskoe carrying 30 Germans establishing a weather station; the

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Corvette HMCS Moose Jaw, 1941 (Canadian Navy photo: H-2693) 85 Years Ago—Sept. 10, 1941: In convoy SC-42 off Greenland, corvettes HMCS Moose Jaw and HMCS Chambly sink U-501, the first U-boat sunk by Canadian ships.

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Soviet soldiers in the trenches on the Leningrad Front before an offensive, 1 Sept 1941 (RIA Novosti archive, image #58228 / Vsevolod Tarasevich / CC-BY-SA 3.0) 85 Years Ago—Sept. 8, 1941: The siege of Leningrad begins as Germans completely surround the c…

Sara Delano Roosevelt with son Franklin, 1887 (Franklin D.

Light cruiser USS Atlanta christened by author Margaret Mitchell during her launching ceremony, Kearny, NJ, 6 Sep 1941 (US National Archives: 19-N-27282) 85 Years Ago—Sept. 6, 1941: Japanese open offensive toward Changsha, China.

Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress in flight, 1942 (US Air Force photo) 85 Years Ago—Sept. 5, 1941: Children under 12 are evacuated from Moscow as the Germans advance.

USS Greer (US Navy photo: 0514502) 85 Years Ago—Sept. 4, 1941: Off Iceland, a British bomber signals destroyer USS Greer and bombs German U-boat U-652; Greer and U-652 exchange torpedo and depth charge attacks, no damage.

Labels taken from canisters of Zyklon B from Dachau, used as evidence at the Nuremberg Trials, 7 April 1946 (US National Archives: 03563) 85 Years Ago—Sept. 3, 1941: Germans first experiment with the use of Zyklon-B in the gas chambers at Auschwitz on Sov…