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This is a list of
aviation-related events from
1941:
Events
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Jackie Cochran became the first woman to fly a bomber across the
Atlantic Ocean.
February
*
February 8 - a fleet of
Junkers Ju 52s is used to airlift
Germany German troops to North Africa.
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February 10 -
United Kingdom Britain uses
paratroops for the first time in an attack on
Tragino
March
*
March 1 -
New Zealand's first fighter squadron,
No. 485 Squadron RAF is formed.
*
March 11 - the
Congress of the United States passes the
Lend-Lease bill, paving the way for the provision of (amongst other equipment) 16,000 warplanes to the UK. Later Lend-Lease arrangements will supply other Allied nations.
April
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April 15 -
Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company CAMCO signs an agreement with the Chinese government to equip and administer the
American Volunteer Group in China.
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April 16 -
London comes under intense bomber attack, with nearly 900 tonnes of high explosive dropped on the city.
May
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May 6 -
Igor Sikorsky sets a world endurance record for helicopter flight of 1 hour 32 minutes, in a
Sikorsky VS-300
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May 10 -
Rudolf Hess parachutes into
Scotland to try and negotiate an alliance with Britain against the
Soviet Union
*
May 20 - the
Luftwaffe's largest paratroop assault sees 22,750 troops landed in
Crete in
Operation Merkur. The heavy losses taken mean this will also be the Luftwaffe's last such operation for the war.
*
May 26 -
Royal Air Force and
Fleet Air Arm aircraft play a key role in finding and sinking the
German battleship Bismarck German battleship ''Bismarck''.
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May 29 - the
USAAC forms
USAAC Ferrying Command Ferrying Command to fly newly manufactured aircraft across the Atlantic to Britain.
June
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June 8 -
July 8 - the British invades
Syria - air combat between British and French aircraft
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June 20 - the USAAC is renamed the
United States Army Air Forces USAAF and placed under the command of General
Henry Arnold
*
June 22 - Germany invades the Soviet Union (
Operation Barbarossa). 1,200 Soviet aircraft are destroyed on the first day alone.
July
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July 18 - the first RAF aircraft equipped with
radar
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July 28 - the
Vichy government agrees to build German aircraft in France
August
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August 1 - the Soviet Union makes the first operational use of
parasite fighters, attacking
Constanza with modified
Polikarpov I-16s carried into action by
Tupolev TB-3s.
* August 1 - the
United States embargoes the sale of aviation fuel to
Japan.
September
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September 23 -
Hans-Ulrich Rudel single-handedly sinks a Soviet battleship (the
Soviet battleship Marat ''Marat'') flying a
Junkers Ju 87
October
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October 2 -
Heini Dittmar sets a new airspeed record of 1,004 km/h (624 mph) in a
Messerschmitt Me 163A. The record is unofficial because the flight (and the Me 163 programme) is kept secret.
November
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November 12 - aircraft carrier
HMS Ark Royal (91) HMS ''Ark Royal'' is sunk by a German submarine
December
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December 7 - the
Imperial Japanese Navy makes a devastatingly successful surprise attack on the
US Navy fleet at
Pearl Harbor. Six
aircraft carriers launched a total of nearly 400 warplanes which claimed five US battleships and ten other vessels, and damaged three other battleships. The US declares war on Japan.
*
December 18 - Lt
Buzz Wagner becomes the first US ace of the war.
*
December 22 - a radar-equipped
Fairey Firefly sinks a German submarine (
Unterseeboot 451 U-451) at night, the first such victory
First flights
'''January'''
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Junkers Ju 288
*
January 9 -
Avro Lancaster prototype ''BT 308'' (at the time, an
Avro Manchester Mk III)
'''February'''
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February 25 -
Messerschmitt Me 321
'''April'''
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April 2 -
Heinkel He 280
'''May'''
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Nakajima J1N
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May 15 -
Gloster E.28/39, first British jet
'''August'''
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August 1 -
TBF Avenger Grumman TBF Avenger
'''December'''
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December 22 -
Fairey Firefly prototype ''Z 1826''
Entered service
'''February'''
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P-39 Airacobra with 31st Pursuit Group (39th, 40th, and 41st Pursuit Squadrons, USAAC)
'''November'''
*
de Havilland Mosquito with
No. 105 Squadron RAF
'''December'''
*
Avro Lancaster with
No. 44 Squadron RAF No. 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron RAF
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