SprueStack Zero Hour: WW2 day by day
1 October 1941
What happened on this day in the Second World War, from 1939 to 1945, with a source for every entry.
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Each day we list events from the Second World War that happened on that date, from 1939 to 1945. Every entry names its source and links to it, so you can read further. Entries are sourced and machine-screened before they go up, a subset is human-reviewed, and we add more over time.
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Entries
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New Zealand troops land in Egypt and take over Fort Capuzzo.
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Soviet Union government begins move eastward to Samara, a city on the Volga, but Joseph Stalin remains in Moscow. The citizens of Moscow frantically build tank traps and other fortifications for the coming siege.
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UK Parliament
Coal Supply (House of Lords)
Official record of proceedings in the House of Lords, sitting of 1941-10-01: "Coal Supply." Source: Hansard (Open Parliament Licence v3.0)
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Series of encirclement battles during Operation Typhoon.
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