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3/26/1941, Yugoslavia Joins Axis Powers; German Troop Concentrations Threaten Greece … Map, Med. Region, Emerson Kent

3/26/1941, German Government Reaffirms Determination to Respect at All Times Yugoslavia's Territorial Sovereignty

3/26/1941, Axis Reps. Watch Yugo Signing Ceremonies; Ribbentrop Declares New Order in Europe & Asia Being Carried Out

3/26/1941, Turkey Can Count on Soviet Sensitivity & Neutrality; Sources Hint at Anti-German Pact Between Turks & Russians

3/26/1941, Oil Tanker Blows Up Off Cape Lookout N.C.; 19 Seamen Missing … Map, Cape Lookout North Carolina, Google

3/26/1941, Last Week's Merchant Shipping Losses Due to Enemy Action Totaled 17 British Ships & Six Allied Ships

3/26/1941, About 250,000 Cheering & Flag-Waving Residents of Brisbane Australia Welcome Visiting U.S. Naval Squadron

Map, Brisbane, Google … 3/26/1941; British Bombing Policy Generally Aims at German Factories, Ports, Airfields, & U-Boats

3/26/1941, Aussie Troops Supported by British Artillery & Engineers Capture Jarabub Oasis After Stiff Resistance from Italians

Map, Girabub Oasis Libya, Google … … 3/26/1941, Steamer Brings French Troops & Ammo to Saigon … Map, Saigon, Google

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3/26/1941, Army to Investigate Mistreatment of Soldiers at Holsworthy Detention Camp … Map, Holsworthy Australia, Google

Model Prisons Benefit Soviet Gov't; Smiling Faces, Cell Doors Unlocked, Atmosphere of Goodwill, Excellent Food, 6/28/1930

3/26/1941, Dutch East Indies on Virtual War Footing … War Department Pocket Guide to Dutch East Indies, Ibiblio, HyperWar

3/26/1941, Churchill & Turkish President Send Goodwill Messages to Greece; U.S. Navy Transferring 20 Destroyers to Britain

3/26/1941, Portuguese Steamer Arrives at St. Vincent with 79 Survivors of Torpedoed British Ships … Map, St. Vincent, Google

3/26/1941, Reports from Detroit Indicate Seasonal Automobile Production Slackening Due to Defense Drive & Labor Problems

3/26/1941, U.S. Marines Patrol International Settlement in Shanghai Following Week of Unprecedented Terrorist Activities

Map, Shanghai China, Google … 3/26/1941, F.D.R.'s Rep. Returns from Far East with List of Chinese Needs in War with Japan

3/26/1941, F.D.R. Designates Defense Areas at Subic Bay & Kodiak Island … Map, Subic Bay, Google … Map, Kodiak Isl., Google

3/26/1941, U.S. Accumulating Non-Refrigerated Foodstuffs for Shipment To Britain; Feds Completing Details of Food Aid

3/26/1941, Japanese Foreign Minister Mr. Matsuoka Leaves Moscow for Berlin; Japan May Want Neutrality Pact with Soviets

3/26/1941, Australian Vital Statistics Issued; 77,890 Marriages Last Year; Births (126,349) Reach "Replacement Rate"

3/26/1941, Dept. of Info from London Reports Upsurge of (Anti-Axis) Nationalism in Yugo Due to Pact with Hitler & Mussolini

3/26/1941, British & Indian Troops Close in on Italian-Held Keren in Wind-Swept East Africa … Map, Keren Eritrea, Google

3/26/1941, Japanese Troops Deploy to Ongoing Battles in Kwangtung Province China … Map, Kwangtung Province, Wikipedia

3/26/1941, Spring Training; Yanks Edge Dodgers in 11 as Pitching & Defense Prevail at St. Pete … Map, St. Petersburg, Google

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3/26/1941, Yugoslav Riot Police Busy Breaking Up Countrywide Protests Against Axis Pact Signing; Hundreds Arrested

3/26/1941, Steady Stream of German Tourists & Agents Arrive in Algeria on Way to Casablanca … Map, Casablanca, Google

3/26/1941, Anti-Axis Pamphlets Circulated Widely in Belgrade; Bloody Demonstrations Have Occurred in Montenegro

Map, Belgrade & Montenegro, Google … 3/26/1941, Yugoslav Ministers Avoided Anti-Axis Crowds on Way to Sign Axis Pact

3/26/1941; British Stretched Thin in Africa Without Seapower, but Empire Troops Still Nightmare for Mussolini's Dreams

3/26/1941, German Plane Bombs & Strafes Steamer Taubate off Port Said; Three Seamen Wounded … Map, Port Said, Google

3/26/1941, Bands of Abyssinian Patriots Cut Off Italian Supply Road Linking Gondar & Asamra; Intense Fighting Near Keren

Map, Asmara Eritrea, Google … Map, Gondar Ethiopia, Google … Map, Keren Eritrea, Google … … Map, Balkans, Emerson Kent

3/26/1941, Berlin Reports "German African Corps" [Reinforced] Has Occupied El Agheila … Satellite View, El Agheila, Google

3/26/1941, Italian Assaults Stalled by Spirited Greeks in S. Albania … Battle of Hill 731, Wikipedia … Map, Hill 731, Google

Greeks Fiercely Resist Italian Invasion; British Seize Crete; Flaming Naval Battle Reported, 10/28/1940, Part 1 ... Part 2

Map, Crete, Google … … Mussilini & Hitler Meet in Florence, 10/28/1940, Part 1 … Part 2 … Map, Florence Italy, Google

3/26/1941, Thousands of Incendiaries Rain on Berlin from Large Force of British Bombers Flying Against Fierce Barrage

Waves of German Bombers Stage Marathon Raid on London; Numerous Fires; Damaged Planes Crash All About, 9/9/1940

3/26/1941, Brooklyn Manager Leo Durocher Nominates Promising Star Pete Reiser (Speed to Burn) to Play Centerfield

Reiser HR, but Cubs Sweep Brooklyn, 9/12/1940 … Dodger Casey Blanks Bucs then Wins Game Two in Relief, 9/13/1940

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3/26/1941, Spontaneous Anti-Axis Demonstrations Erupt Throughout Yugoslavia; Protesters Denounce Pact with Germany

3/26/1941, Upswing for Railroad Stocks Continues in Anticipation of Improving Finances (Southern Pacific Closed at 9.75)

Map, Southern Pacific Railroad, Wikipedia … Photo, S. Pacific Locomotive, Wikipedia … Photo, 1941 Locomotive, Wikipedia

3/26/1941, Bombardment by British Fleet May Force Italian Garrisons Off Dodecanese Islands … Map, Dodecanese, Wikipedia

3/26/1941, U.S. Office of Production Management Lists 12 Strikes Affecting National Defense (Totaling 62,550 Workers)

3/26/1941, State Police Battle Striking Picketers at Sprawling Bethlehem Steel Plant … Map, Bethlehem Pa., Google

3/26/1941, Food Riots Break Out Across Syria Again; French Authorities Attempt to Isolate Damascus from Uprisings

Map, Damascus Syria, Google … 3/26/1941, U.S. Mass Production Methods Lead World; 2,000 Autos Daily at One Detroit Plant

3/26/1941, Germany Extends Blockade to Within Three Miles of Greenland; Berlin Decrees Iceland Within Combat Zone

Satellite View, Greenland, Google … 3/26/1941, British Meat Ration Reduced … 3/26/1941, Possible Blitz Routes in Balkans

3/26/1941, Japanese F.M. Matsuoka Arrives in Berlin for Talks with Three-Power (Axis) Pact & Receives Rousing Welcome

3/26/1941, Anti-Axis Demonstrators Clash Violently with Police in Streets of Sarajevo … Map, Sarajevo (Yugoslavia), Google

Heir to Austro-Hungarian Throne & Wife Assassinated in Sarajevo by Serbian with Nationalistic Motive, 6/29/1914

Anti-Serb Mob Rampages Through Sarajevo Wrecking Serb Property & Singing Austrian National Anthem, 6/30/1914

Austria Sends Ultimatum to Serbia; Russia Will Not Abandon Serbia, 7/25/1914 … Pacific Coast League Standings, 7/25/1914

Timely Relief Pitching in 9th by Hughes Strands Two Sacramento Runners in 5-3 L.A. Win, 7/25/1914, Part 1 … Part 2

Venice Maintains P.C.L. Lead by Edging Oakland 4-2 at L.A.; Harkness Goes Distance, 7/25/1914 … Map, Venice, Google

Seals Sweep Pair from Portland in S.F.; Higginbotham (Ordered Off Field in 5th of Opener) Loses Both Games, 7/25/1914

3/26/1941, British Sub Sturgeon Torpedoes & Sinks 10,000-Ton German Tanker Off Norway; German Planes Sink Four Ships

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3/26/1941, Moscow Hopes Anti-Axis Yugoslav Communists Will Impede German Advance Toward Turkish Straits & Ukraine

Map, Turkish Straits, Google … Map, Yugoslavia, Wikipedia … Map, Prince Albert Saskatchewan Canada, Google

3/26/1941, R.A.F. Wireless Operator Sgt. H.G. Loutes of Prince Albert (Stationed in England) K.I.A. During Air Operations

3/26/1941, Top Nazi Party Officials Greet Matsuoka's Arrival by Train in Berlin; Matsuoka Will Stay in Hitler's Guest House

3/26/1941, P.M. Mackenzie King Details Magnitude of Canada's Pledge to Contribute 44% of National Income to War Effort

3/26/1941, Draftee & Best 1940 Film Actor James Stewart Assigned to Air Corps; Stewart Holds Commercial Pilot's License

3/26/1941, Close Post-War Cooperation Between U.S. & Britain Would Be "Magnet" for Other Nations with Similar Views

3/26/1941, U.S. Army Infantry Contingent of 1,600 Men Will Bivouac in Bend Oregon During Move from S.F. to Fort Lewis

Map, Bend Oregon, Google … 7/26/1941, Budget for Deschutes County Oregon … Map, Fort Lewis Washington, Google

3/26/1941, Millionaire Gets $18 Weekly Working as Gas Station Attendant in Tulsa … Map, Tulsa Oklahoma, Google

3/26/1941, Plastics Research About to Bring Millions of Transparent Packages to Stores; Saves Aluminum for Defense

3/26/1941; National Basketball Committee Meeting Sat. in K.C. Will Look at Standardizing Balls, Baskets, Floors, Etc.

Map, Kansas City Missouri, Google … 3/26/1941, U.S. Office of Education Indicates Increase in Skilled-Trades Training

3/26/1941, K.C. Blues Nullify Mike Ryba's Six-Inning Gem at Sarasota; Red Sox Head for Miami Beach & then Havana Cuba

Map, Sarasota, Google [Ryba Spent 13 Years in Cards' Farm System] … Map, Miami Beach, Google … Map, Havana, Google

3/26/1941, Extension of War Zone to Iceland Meaningless Say British Sources; Germans Sink Everything They See Anyway

3/26/1941; Freighter Greystone Castle Two Weeks Overdue from Calcutta to England, 12 Passengers, Manganese Ore

3/26/1941, Listing of U.S. Naval Officers Issued Assignments; Lieut. Comdr. Samuel G. Fuqua to U.S.S. Arizona, Etc.

3/26/1941, Chrysler Motors Plans to Double Floor Space at Parts Depot in San Leandro … Map, San Leandro Ca., Google

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3/26/1941, Anti-Axis Riots & Street Fighting Erupt in Belgrade & Yugoslavia, Part 1 … Part 2 … … Map, Belgrade, Google

3/26/1941, Less than Three Weeks Remain in Which to File Return for Annual California State Personal Income Tax

3/26/1941, Fidelity Auto Finance Corp. Nominally Fined $50 in Federal Court for Repossessing Draftee's Automobile

3/26/1941, War Costs Canada $885 Million in Fiscal Year Ending March 31 According to Finance Minister J.L. Ilsley

3/26/1941, Pictures Found on German Aviator Shot Down in England Shows Executed Men Hanged by Nazis in Warsaw

3/26/1941, Santa Fe Railroad. Co. Needs Extra Line Near Torrance Ca. to Handle Increased Defense Production

3/26/1941, Map, Torrance Ca., Google … … 3/26/1941, Most Auto Accidents Occur from 7:pm to 8:pm & 5:am to 6:am

3/26/1941, British Stretched Thin by Deployments to Greece; More German Troops Arrive in Libya … Map, Libya, Google

3/26/1941, Italy's E. Africa Stronghold Addis Ababa May Fall to British Before Rainy Season … Map, Addis Ababa, Google

3/26/1941, Making America Strong; U.S. Industry Provides Weapons for National Defense; Airplane Production Up 1000%

3/26/1941, Long-Range German Bombers Sink 10,000-Ton British Merchant Ship 250 Miles W. of Hebrides Islands Scotland

Map, Hebrides Islands, Wikipedia … Map, Scotland, Google … Map, Stoneham Ma., Google … Map, Morehead City, Google

3/26/1941, Retired U.S. Navy Man James Kerns of Stoneham Ma. Killed in Ship Explosion off Morehead City N.C.

3/26/1941, Survivors Believe 19 Seamen Went Down on 9,136-Ton Oil Tanker Cities Service Denver After Explosion & Fire

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