27th September
1939
Poland surrenders after 26 days of fighting the German invasion from the west initially and then the Soviet invasion from the east.
1940
The Tripartite Pact was signed between Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan.
1941
The first of the Liberty ships, built by the US under the lend-lease scheme for the UK, is launched. Another 2,700 followed.
1942
The only US surface ship to sink a German surface warship, the SS Stephen Hopkins sinks the surface raider Stier before sinking below the waves herself.
1943
Mussolini holds his first cabinet meeting in northern Italy, while Italian resistance forces start attacking German troops in Naples.
1944
In Estonia, Soviet forces have eliminated most German resistance.
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