Played primarily second base for the St. Louis Cardinals ( 1933 – 1935 ), New York Giants ( 1936 – 1941 ), and Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1946 ).

According to one Nazi official in 1941, " Every child knows who the Kittelbach Pirates are.

Waner played for the Pirates until the beginning of the 1941 season.

In 1940 and 1941, the London Pirates played in the Pennsylvania-Ontario-New York League, more commonly known as the PONY League.

Vic's brother Bob Barnhart was also a teammate on the 1941 London Pirates.

After playing the first fifteen years of his career with the Pirates, Waner ended his career playing for the Dodgers ( 1941, 1943 – 1944 ), Boston Braves ( 1941 – 1942 ) and New York Yankees ( 1944 – 1945 ).

* Pirates on Horseback ( Director: Lesley Selander, 1941 )

On December 12, 1941, after a decade as the Pirates ' starting shortstop, Vaughan was traded to the Brooklyn Dodgers for four players.

A native of Chester, Pennsylvania, Murtaugh played during nine seasons for the Philadelphia Phillies ( 1941 – 43, 1946 ), Boston Braves ( 1947 ) and Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1948 – 51 ).

This category is for players of the Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL, known as the Pittsburgh Pirates before 1941.

His contract was purchased by the Pittsburgh Pirates late in the 1941 season, and he played parts of the next two seasons with the Pirates as a reserve outfielder.

He had a 13-year career in MLB for the New York Giants ( 1941 – 43, 1946 – 49, and 1955 ), Boston Braves ( 1950 – 52 ), Milwaukee Braves ( 1953 ), and Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1954 – 55 ).

The franchise takes its name from an earlier Cincinnati Bengals team, which played from 1937 – 1941.

Cleveland entered 1941 with a young team and a new manager ; Roger Peckinpaugh had replaced the despised Vitt ; but the team regressed, finishing in fourth.

The Stooge films made between 1935 – 1941 captured the team at the peak, according to film historians Ted Okuda and Edward Watz, authors of The Columbia Comedy Shorts.

In November 1941, Kelsey gave the unofficial nod to Johnson and the P-38 team to engineer a drop tank system to extend range for the fighter, and they completed the initial research and development without a contract.

After Layforce ( and No. 8 Commando ) were disbanded on 1 August 1941, Stirling remained convinced that due to the mechanised nature of war a small team of highly trained soldiers with the advantage of surprise could exact greater damage to the enemy's ability to fight than an entire platoon.

These men, who had been part of a team trained in Great Britain, parachuted into Bohemia in December 1941 as part of Operation Anthropoid.

On 29 and 30 September 1941, a special team of German SS troops supported by other German units and local collaborators murdered 33, 771 Jewish civilians after taking them to the ravine.

The Celestial Navigation Trainer of 1941 was 13. 7 m ( 45 ft ) high and capable of accommodating the navigation team of a bomber crew.

In 1941, the club changed its name to Atlético Bilbao, following a decree issued by Franco, banning the use of non-Spanish language names and scrapping the policy of only letting Basque-born players in the team ( see origins of the " grandparent rule ").

A team of Royal Engineer ( RE ) officers was assembled at the Military Engineering Experimental Establishment ( MEXE ), in Barrack Road Christchurch, Dorset, in 1941 and 1942 ; among them were Robin Foulkes, Darrell Herbert, John de Waele, and Bill Buckle, all R. E.

The Red Skull was introduced in Timely Comics ' Captain America Comics # 1 ( cover-dated March 1941 ), written and drawn by the team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby.

John Adams, who attended and played basketball at Beebe High School, and in 1941, was a member of the Arkansas Razorbacks Final Four team, is credited by some as being the inventor of the jump shot.

* Jim Thomason, an American football halfback and member of the 1939 national championship team of Texas A & M University, was selected fifth overall by the Detroit Lions in the 1941 NFL Draft.

Other film roles for the team include Look Who's Laughing ( 1941 ) and Here We Go Again ( 1942 ), both with Fibber McGee and Molly.

The situation improved in 1941, when the painter Zhang Daqian arrived at the caves with a small team of assistants and stayed for two and a half years to repair and copy the murals.

Goddard and his team launched 34 rockets between 1926 and 1941, achieving altitudes as high as and speeds as high as 885 km / h ( 550 mph ).

Design had begun in September 1941, during which time the Bell team was guided mostly by theory, as General Electric would not finish and begin testing the first engine until March 1942.

The NBS team built six fuzes which were placed in air-dropped bombs and successfully tested over water on 6 May 1941.

The team played in the American Professional Football Association ( now the National Football League ) during the 1921 season, and continued to operate as a football club until 1941.

Playing under the name Newark Bears ( a name previously used by the Newark Bears of the 1926 American Football League ), the team played in the AA through 1941.

When the Gunners ' application was eventually denied, the team returned to an independent status until they disbanded in 1941.

Carl Storck, who later served as treasurer of the NFL and as acting league president from 1939 to 1941, co-sponsored the Dayton Cadets and used players recruited from the three factories to fill out the team roster.

In 1951, a group led by Ken Stauffer and Tiny Radar were inspired by Vancouver Sun columnist Andy Lytle's article to start a football team in Vancouver ( an early team known as the Vancouver Grizzlies had played one season in the Western Interprovincial Football Union in 1941 ).

Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

Map of the Italian Empire ( 1936 – 1941 ), that included Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia

Other leading films included Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ( 1936 ), Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), You Can't Take It With You ( 1938 ), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Meet John Doe ( 1941 ), Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ) and State of the Union ( 1948 ).

Universal's horror cycle continued into the 1940s, these included The Wolf Man ( 1941 ), not the first werewolf film, but certainly the most influential, as well as a number of films uniting several of their monsters.

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.

Katherine Hillyer's article was published nationally on February 20, 1941, and included a picture of the vehicle with the caption:

Political developments in the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1941 included Stalin dismantling the remaining elements of democracy from the Party by extending his control over its institutions and eliminating any possible rivals.

Economic developments in the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1941 included the acceleration of collectivization of agriculture.

Social developments in the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1941 included the relinquishment of the relaxed social control and allowance of experimentation under Lenin to Stalin's promotion of a rigid and authoritarian society based upon discipline – mixing traditional Russian values with Stalin's interpretation of Marxism.

In November 1941 Adorno followed Horkheimer to what Thomas Mann called " German California ," setting up house in a Pacific Palisades neighborhood of German emigres which included Bertolt Brecht and Arnold Schoenberg.

Serious 1941 films involving training for war included U. S. Cavalry in MGM's The Bugle Sounds, RKO's Parachute Battalion, Paramount Pictures I Wanted Wings and Warner Brothers ' Dive Bomber.

From 1941 – 45, the Croatian Ustaše regime murdered around 500, 000 people, 250, 000 were expelled, and another 200, 000 were forced to convert to Catholicism ; the victims were predominantly Serbs but included 37, 000 Jews.

These included Dreiser Looks at Russia ( 1928 ), the result of his 1927 trip to the Soviet Union, and two books presenting a critical perspective on capitalist America, Tragic America ( 1931 ) and America Is Worth Saving ( 1941 ).

The anthology, entitled Foundation's Friends, included tributes to Thiotimoline, a fictional substance Asimov wrote about during his Ph. D. studies, as well as many tributes to robotics, a term coined by Asimov in the 1941 short story " Liar!

Military industries which moved to Omsk included part of the OKMO tank-design bureau in 1941, and S. M.

One of the earliest exhibitions included 21 of his masterpieces from 1910 to 1941.

Further highlights of this period included Tom, Dick, and Harry, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men ; I'll Be Seeing You, with Joseph Cotten ; La Cava's 5th Avenue Girl ( 1939 ), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family ; and especially the sharp and highly successful comedies: Bachelor Mother ( 1939 ), with David Niven, in which she played Polly Parrish, a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby ; and Billy Wilder's first Hollywood feature film: The Major and the Minor ( 1942 ), in which she played a woman who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period.

Robert Lenkiewicz was born in London in 1941, the son of refugees who ran a Jewish hotel in Fordwych Road, whose elderly residents included a number of Holocaust survivors.

The remaining twelve roadshows were held throughout 1941, which included a thirty-nine week run at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles from January 29.

Other famous works presented at the Savoy included the première of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit ( 1941, which ran 1, 997 consecutive performances, setting a new record for non-musical theatre runs ), Robert Morley in The Man Who Came to Dinner, and several comedies by William Douglas-Home starring, among others, Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft, and John Mills.

Notorious pogroms of World War II included the 1941 Farhud in Iraq, the Iaşi pogrom in Romania – in which over 13, 200 Jews were killed – and the Jedwabne pogrom in Poland.

After hosting the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, the United States Navy deemed Treasure Island an ideal location for transporting people and machines to the Pacific theater, and on April 1, 1941, established Treasure Island Naval Station which also included a portion of Yerba Buena Island.

In addition, writers born outside Wales, who have both lived in as well as written about Wales, are often included, such as John Cowper Powys ( 1872 – 1963 ), who settled in Wales in 1935 and wrote two major novels, Owen Glendower ( 1941 ) and Porius ( 1949 ), that have Welsh subject matter.

In 1941, Tatum recorded two sessions for Decca Records with singer Big Joe Turner, the first of which included " Wee Wee Baby Blues ", which attained national popularity.

Herrmann also created the music for Welles's CBS radio series the Orson Welles Show ( 1941 – 1942 ), which included the debut of his wife Lucille Fletcher's suspense classic, The Hitch-Hiker ; Ceiling Unlimited ( 1942 ), a program conceived to glorify the aviation industry and dramatize its role in World War II ; and The Mercury Summer Theatre on the Air ( 1946 ).