Editing 1941 (section)

===August===
{{Main|August 1941}}
* [[August]] &ndash; The [[Political Warfare Executive]] is formed in the United Kingdom to disseminate propaganda to Germany and its occupied countries.
* [[August 1]] &ndash; The [[Willys MB]] U.S. Army [[Jeep]] is first produced.
* [[August 5]] &ndash; The [[Provisional Government of Lithuania]] is dissolved.
* [[August 6]] &ndash; Six-year-old [[Elaine Esposito]] goes to have an [[Vermiform appendix|appendix operation]] in [[Florida]] and lapses into a [[coma]], dying 37 years later, still comatose. 
* [[August 7]] &ndash; WWII: British submarine {{HMS|Severn|N57|6}} sinks an Italian [[Marconi-class submarine]].
* [[August 9]] &ndash; [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and [[Winston Churchill]] meet on board ship at [[Naval Station Argentia]], [[Dominion of Newfoundland|Newfoundland]]. The [[Atlantic Charter]] (released [[August 14]]), setting goals for postwar international cooperation, is created as a result.
* [[August 16]]
** [[The Holocaust]]: Units of the ''[[Wehrmacht]]'' and the ''[[Einsatzgruppen]]'' (as part of [[Operation Barbarossa]]) start killing Jewish children, signalling the start of the Jewish Genocide.
** {{HMS|Mercury|shore establishment|6}} Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School opens at Leydene, near [[Petersfield]], Hampshire, England.
* [[August 19]] &ndash; The [[Tiraspol Agreement]] is signed between [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] and [[Kingdom of Romania|Romania]].<ref name=":99">{{cite journal|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309415043|title=The beginning of war in the East and hastening the approaches against the Jewish population|first1=Adina|last1=Babeș|first2=Alexandru|last2=Florian|journal=Holocaust. Studii și cercetări|issue=7|year=2014|pages=30–44}}</ref>
* [[August 21]] &ndash; In revenge for the execution two days earlier of [[French Resistance]] member [[Samuel Tyszelman]], communist activist [[Pierre Georges]] (with others) shoots and kills a member of the German military in occupied Paris, initiating a cycle of assassinations and retribution that will claim hundreds of lives.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hansen|first=Randall|year=2014|title=Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance After Valkyrie|url=https://archive.org/details/disobeyinghitler0000hans|url-access=registration|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/disobeyinghitler0000hans/page/31 31]|isbn=978-0-19-992792-0}}</ref>
* [[August 25]] &ndash; WWII: The [[Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran]] to secure the [[Persian Corridor]] and oilfields begins.
* [[August 27]] &ndash; WWII: [[Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre]], 23,600 Jews are shot dead by [[Einsatzgruppen]] troops and local collaborators in Ukraine.
* [[August 28]] &ndash; WWII: [[Soviet evacuation of Tallinn]] &ndash; German troops capture [[Tallinn]], [[Estonia]] from the Soviet Union, while attacks on the evacuating Soviet ships leave more than 12,000 dead in one of the bloodiest naval battles of the war. German forces will capture the entire Estonian territory by December 6.
* [[August 29]]
** WWII: The [[Government of National Salvation]], a [[Serbs|Serb]] [[puppet state]] of the [[Axis powers]], is established by General [[Milan Nedić]] in [[Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia|Nazi-occupied Serbia]] in [[Belgrade]], under military commander [[Heinrich Danckelmann]]; the regime includes 15 Ministers.
** [[Robert Menzies]] resigns as [[Prime Minister of Australia]], after losing the support of his [[United Australia Party|party]]. He will not return to the Prime Ministership until [[1949 Australian federal election|1949]]. [[Arthur Fadden]], leader of the [[National Party of Australia|Country Party]], consequently becomes Prime Minister, while former Prime Minister [[Billy Hughes]] [[1941 United Australia Party leadership election|replaces]] Menzies as UAP leader.
* [[August 30]]
** German troopship ''Bahia Laura'' is sunk by British submarine {{HMS|Trident|N52}}; 450 are killed.
** [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] and [[Kingdom of Romania|Romania]] sign another treaty, the [[Tighina Agreement]].<ref name=":99" />
* [[August 31]]
** WWII ([[Uprising in Serbia (1941)|Uprising in Serbia]]): [[Battle of Loznica (1941)|Battle of Loznica]]: [[Chetniks]] capture the town of [[Loznica]] in [[Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia|Nazi-occupied Serbia]].
** ''[[The Great Gildersleeve]]'' debuts on [[NBC]] Radio in the United States.