Noted for his activities in the Ukrainian SSR in 1940-1941, he sided with Ana Pauker during World War II, and returned to Romania to serve as the Minister of Finance and one of the most recognizable leaders of the Communist regime.

* Admiral George McMillin, 38th and final Naval Governor of Guam, one of the first WWII POWs at First Battle of Guam 1940-1941

The character's original incarnation, as drawn by Joe Shuster, appeared only twice between 1940-1941.

Triple conjunctions between Jupiter and Saturn -- so-called Greatest Conjunctions -- last took place in 1682-1683, 1821 ( only in right ascension ), 1940-1941 and 1981.

The Group continued to fly only Hampdens until the winter of 1940-1941 when it began to convert to the new Avro Manchester.

Egypt, 1915: Mesopotamia, 1915-1918: Egypt & Libya, 1940-1942: Greece 1940-1941, Mediterranean, 1940 – 1941, Ceylon April, 1942: Arakan, 1944: Burma 1944-1945

According to a Ukrainian historian, out of approximately 160 Polish professors living in Lviv in June 1941, the professors chosen for execution were specifically those who actively cooperated with the Soviet regime in some way between 1940-1941.

* East Africa ( As part of the 1st Infantry Division and then later, as part of the independent 1st South African Infantry Brigade ) 1940-1941

About 26 were sold to Siam and saw action as Infantry support guns and AA guns during the Franco-Thai war ( 1940-1941 ) along with 30 Vickers Mk. E Type B 6-ton tanks.

During World War II, the 1940-1941 Franco-Thai War left the French Indochinese colonial authorities in a position of weakness.

During the years of Soviet occupation, 1940-1941, the Ninth Fort was used by the NKVD to house political prisoners on their way to the labour camps in Siberia.

Its commander from 1940-1941 was Ellis M. Zacharias, later narrator of the Cold War docudrama Behind Closed Doors ( NBC, 1958 – 1959 ).

When British officials learned of Soviet officials surveying the Aksai Chin for Sheng Shicai, warlord of Xinjiang in 1940-1941, they again advocated the Johnson Line.

Rainfall is extremely erratic and in exceptional years like 1940-1941 and 1997-1998 over of rain has fallen in a year, but in dry seasons less than is not unheard of.

The Military Advisor to the Commonwealth Government was US General Douglas MacArthur, who was assisted by Major Dwight Eisenhower and Major James Ord ; along with four officers from the Philippine Department, under Major General Lucius Holbrook ( 1936-1938 ) and Major General Grunert ( 1940-1941 ), as well as retired Lieutenant colonel Sidney L. Huff.

* Gleason, S. Everett, and William L. Langer ; The Undeclared War, 1940-1941 ( 1953 ).

** 1940-1941 Sr. Faustino Félix Gastelum ( PRI )

* Colonel Passy, Souvenirs-Tome 1: 2e bureau, Londres ( 1940-1941 ), Raoul Solar, 1947-Tome 2: 10, Duke Street, Londres ( le B. C. R. A ), Raoul Solar, 1951-Tome 3: Missions secrètes en France ( novembre 1942-juin 1943 ), Plon, 1951, rééd.

After the Fall of France, during 1940-1941, approximately 4, 800 experienced National Guard aviation personnel were mobilized from their observation squadrons.

The attack by Italy from Albania and the Greek victories enabled Greece to conquer, during the winter of 1940-1941, parts of southern Albania ( Northern Epirus, as it is identified by Greeks ) which were administered as a province of Greece for a short time until the German offensive of April 1941.

During the invasion crisis of 1940-1941, the demand for Dannert wire was so great that some was produced with low manganese steel wire which was easier to cut.

Throughout 1940-1941 several tens of thousands of Bukovinians were deported to Siberia and Kazakhstan, some 13, 000 of them on June 13, 1941 alone.

In 1940-1941, the Soviet reprisals were more massive in the parts of the Chernivsti oblast were Romanians predominated ; when, however, after 1944, Ukrainian anti-Soviet resistance rose up, Romanians and Ukrainians fought alongside against NKVD.

Devised by Sir Paul Chambers, PAYE was introduced into the UK in 1944, following trials in 1940-1941.

* Charles B. Jahnke 1940-1941

This relationship was rooted largely in the generous and lenient treatment of Japanese POWs by the Nationalist government in the years immediately following the Japanese surrender in 1945, and was felt especially strongly as a bond of personal obligation by the most senior members then in power .< ref name =" Journal1 "> Gillin, Donald G. and Etter, Charles.

In The Doctor of Stalingrad ( 1958 ) dealing with German POWs in the Soviet Union, Germans are portrayed as more civilized, humane and intelligent than the Soviets, who are showed for the most part as Mongol savages who brutalized the German POWs.

Both researchers also concluded that such coercive persuasion succeeded only on a minority of POWs, and that the end-result of such coercion remained very unstable, as most of the individuals reverted to their previous condition soon after they left the coercive environment.

Japanese soldiers took most of the morning tying all of the POWs hands together and in the dusk divided them into 4 columns, and opened fire at them.

During this time, most of the POWs were moved to hospital and relocation camps where they could be available for maintenance crews or sent to Japan to alleviate the manpower shortage there.

Following the late 1970 attempted rescue operation at Son Tay prison camp, most of the POWs at the outlying camps were moved to Hoa Lo, so that the North Vietnamese had fewer camps to protect.

Before they were sent as guards to the concentration camps, most Soviet POWs who served as camp guards underwent special training in Trawniki, originally a holding center for refugees and Soviet POWs whom the Security Police and SD had designated potential collaborators or dangerous persons.

Canada's first national internment operations of 1914-1920 involved the internment of both genuine POWs and thousands of civilians, most of them Ukrainians who had come from western Ukrainian lands ( Galicia and Bukovyna ) then held by the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

In this decisive battle, more than 500, 000 KMT soldiers were annihilated ; among the POWs was General Du Yuming, Chiang's most distinguished protégé.

Of the 10, 000-12, 000 Poles sent to Kolyma in 1940 – 41, most POWs, only 583 men survived, released in 1942 to join the Polish Armed Forces in the East.

He destroys most of the camp with the helicopter, then lands and arms himself with the machine gun that is mounted on the Huey, kills the remaining soldiers, and rescues all the POWs.

After the DEF designations were made in the early summer of 1945, the International Red Cross was not permitted to fully involve itself in the situation in camps containing German prisoners ( POWs, DEFs or SEPs ), some of which initially were Rheinwiesenlager transit camps, and even though conditions in them gradually improved, " even the most conservative estimates put the death toll in French camps alone at over 16, 500 in 1945 ".

Tuchola was the most notorious POW camp for Red Army POWs ( 1919 – 1922 ).

During the Japanese occupation in the Second World War, most of the Moluccan soldiers were only briefly interned as prisoners of war ( POWs ).

Hanoi's Ministry of Public Security's Medical Office ( MPSMO ) was responsible for " preparing studies and performing research on the most effective Soviet, French, Communist Chinese and other ... techniques ..." of extracting information from POWs.

Kun ’ s actions in Russia, most notably the organization of a massacre of White Russian POWs in 1921, drew censure from Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin and other prominent Bolsheviks.

Both researchers also concluded that such coercive persuasion succeeded only on a minority of POWs, and that the end-result of such coercion remained very unstable, as most of the individuals reverted to their previous condition soon after they left the coercive environment.

The Japanese transferred most of the prisoners to other areas, leaving just over 500 American and other Allied POWs and civilians in the prison.

In most camps, the POWs were broken up in groups of 250 to 300 men and because of the inadequate roads and the flow of battle, not all the prisoners followed the same route.

Kerry won public approval when he heavily emphasized his Vietnam service, while his opponents, most famously the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth, alleged that Kerry did not truly earn the medals he was awarded in Vietnam.

During the Second World War, the largest internment camp in eastern Canada was located in the hamlet of Ripples, 10 km west of the village ; in addition to German POWs, its most notable prisoner was the anti-conscriptionist mayor of Montreal, Camillien Houde.

From 25 July 1944 until March 1946 German POWs, most of them captured in the North Africa campaigns, were housed in these same barracks buildings.