In September 1941, Stalin told British diplomats that he wanted two agreements: ( 1 ) a mutual assistance / aid pact and ( 2 ) a recognition that, after the war, the Soviet Union would gain the territories in countries that it had taken pursuant to its division of Eastern Europe with Hitler in the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact.

In 1941, Escher summarized his findings in a notebook, which he labeled Regelmatige vlakverdeling in asymmetrische congruente veelhoeken (" Regular division of the plane with asymmetric congruent polygons ").

While 60 % of regimental commanders had two years or more of command experience in June 1941, and almost 80 % of rifle division commanders, only 20 % of corps commanders, and 5 % or fewer army and military district commanders, had the same level of experience.

Shafer ( 1941 ) also rejected the division of the family into Sinitic and Tibeto-Burman branches, but instead placed Sinitic on the same level as other branches as working hypotheses:

Patton served as the acting division commander from November 1940 until April 1941.

In 1941, a Parachutist division was completed and was designated the 185th Parachute Division Folgore.

It is the longtime central location of Bell Labs ( now part of Alcatel-Lucent ), having relocated here in 1941 from New York City when the division was still part of Western Electric.

According to Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson, the King in a private conversation had threatened to abdicate if the Government did not approve a German request to transfer a fighting infantry division – the so-called Engelbrecht Division – through Swedish territory from southern Norway to northern Finland in June 1941, around Midsummer.

This division lasted until 1941, when the Timber Supply Department was absorbed by the Ministry of Supply.

On 31 July 1941, the division consisted of 10, 473 troops, mostly enlisted Filipinos, known as the Philippine Scouts.

In October 1941, as part of the U. S. Army Forces Far East, plans were made to " triangularize " the division.

The division was then sent to Mansfield, Louisiana from 11 August through 2 October 1941 for the August – September 1941 Louisiana Maneuvers.

The division was transferred to the VIII Corps Louisiana maneuver Area on 27 July 1941, being redesignated as the 2nd Infantry Division in August, and remained there until 22 September 1942, whereupon the formation returned to Fort Sam Houston.

The division was activated on 15 April 1941 by cadre of the 1st Armored Division, and was fitted out as a full armored division in 1942 under the command of Major General John S. Wood.

Beginning in 1941, al-Husseini visited Bosnia, and convinced Muslim leaders that a Muslim S. S. division would be in the interest of Islam.

The division of authority between the Air Corps and GHQ Air Force was removed with promulgation of Army Regulation 95-5, creating the United States Army Air Forces on June 20, 1941, only two days before Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union.

* Ruben Lagus, Colonel, infantry brigade and division commander-( 22 July 1941 )

* Erkki Raappana, Colonel, division commander-( 3 August 1941 )

* Aaro Olavi Pajari, Major-General, infantry division commander-( first on 14 September 1941, second on 16 October 1944 )

Ron Lyle ( February 12, 1941 – November 26, 2011 ) was an American professional boxer in the heavyweight division .< ref >

This division into spheres of influence lasted less than two years, and ended when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, in violation of the non-aggression pact.

Frederick Reines, ( M. E., 1939, M. S., 1941 ), who would later discover the neutrino — which won him the Nobel Prize in 1995 — directed the experimental division of the Manhattan Project.

Soviet division commander Vladimir Kirpitsnikov as prisoner of war in 1941 lights a smoke for Oesch.

Relations further deteriorated when, in January 1948, the U. S. State Department also published a collection of documents titled Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939 – 1941: Documents from the Archives of The German Foreign Office, which contained documents recovered from the Foreign Office of Nazi Germany revealing Soviet conversations with Germany regarding the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, including its secret protocol dividing eastern Europe, the 1939 German-Soviet Commercial Agreement, and discussions of the Soviet Union potentially becoming the fourth Axis Power.

* 1941 – World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.

In 1941, during the run-up to American involvement in World War II, President Roosevelt appointed LaGuardia first director of the new Office of Civilian Defense ( OCD ).

Falsifiers was published in response to the documents made public in Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939 – 1941: Documents from the Archives of The German Foreign Office, which included the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and other secret German-Soviet relations documents.

In 1941, Vannevar Bush was appointed head of the federal Office of Scientific Research and Development and directed funding to only a select group of universities, including MIT.

On 31 July 1941 Göring gave written authorisation to SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, Chief of the Reich Main Security Office ( RSHA ), to " make all necessary preparations " for a " total solution of the Jewish question " in all the territories under German influence, to coordinate the participation of all government organizations whose cooperation was required, and to submit a " comprehensive draft " of a plan for the " final solution of the Jewish question ".

Franklin D. Roosevelt set up the Office of Lend-Lease Administration in 1941, appointing steel executive Edward R. Stettinius as head.

The Office of Price Administration ( OPA ) was established within the Office for Emergency Management of the United States government by Executive Order 8875 on August 28, 1941.

Both divisions merged to become the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply ( OPACS ) within the Office for Emergency Management by Executive Order 8734, April 11, 1941.

He joined the Dutch Diplomatic Service in 1938 and after a two year assignment at the Private Office of the Foreign Minister he was appointed as attaché in Bern ( Switzerland ) in 1940 and in late 1941 he moved to Lisbon ( Portugal ).

Nevertheless, the Weygand General Delegation ( 4th Office ) collaborated with Germany by delivering to Rommel's Afrika Korps 1200 French trucks and other French army vehicles ( Dankworth contract of 1941 ), as well as heavy artillery pieces accompanied with 1000 shells per gun.

* Jedwabne, 10 July 1941: An interview with Pawel Machcewicz, Director, Office of Public Education, Institute of National Memory

The Dodge Post Office existed from November 20, 1901, until August 15, 1941.

Prior to the Japanese invasion of 1941, Marquat served with the Office of the Military Advisor to the Commonwealth Government of the Philippines, as the chief engineering advisor.

He then served as Commander, Aircraft, Scouting Force ( September 18, to October 12, 1940 ), and as Commander, Patrol Wings, United States Fleet ( October 12, 1940 to January 23, 1941 ) before reporting to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations on January 25, 1941.

While dean of the Harvard Law School from 1938 to 1946, Landis served as regional director of the U. S. Office of Civilian Defense ( 1941 – 1942 ) and then as its national director ( 1942 – 1943 ).

* Office vacant 1940 – 1941

Blacker called the weapon the ' Baby Bombard ', and presented it to the War Office in 1941.

However, when the weapon was tested it proved to have a host of problems ; a War Office report of June 1941 stated that the casing was flimsy and the spigot itself did not always fire when the trigger was pulled, and none of the bombs provided exploded upon contact with the target.

By summer 1941 the Office of Price Administration believed, however, that with factories converting to military production and consuming many critical supplies, rationing would become necessary if the country entered World War II.

On January 17, 1941, almost 11 months before the U. S. entered World War II, the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations asked the Commandant of the 13th Naval District to find a location for the re-arming and refueling of Navy patrol planes operating in defense of Puget Sound, should such defense be necessary.