The Bronze Star Medal may be awarded by the Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of Homeland Security with regard to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy, or by such military commanders, or other appropriate officers as the Secretary concerned may designate, to any person who, while serving in any capacity in or with the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Coast Guard of the United States, after 6 December 1941, distinguishes, or has distinguished, himself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service, not involving participation in aerial flight —

*" The Coming of the White Worm " — Stirring Science Stories, April 1941 LW2

In addition, thousands of political prisoners throughout Germany — and from 1941, throughout the occupied territories under the Night and Fog Decree — simply disappeared while in Gestapo custody.

When released on May 1, 1941, Citizen Kane — based in part on the life of William Randolph Hearst — did not do much business at theaters ; Hearst owned numerous major newspapers, and forbade them to carry advertisements for the film.

" She was a graphic artist and a painter, and — under the name " Alice Bradley Davey " — an art critic for the Chicago Sun between 1941 and 1942.

Hammerstein won two Oscars for best original song — in 1941 for " The Last Time I Saw Paris " in the film Lady Be Good, and in 1945 for " It Might as Well Be Spring " in State Fair.

* Blumhofer, Edith L. The Assemblies of God: A Chapter in the Story of America Pentecostalism, Volume 1 — To 1941.

* In the 1941 Noël Coward play Blithe Spirit poltergeist activity is due to the ghost of the central character's first wife — and later to the ghosts of both wives.

* 1941 — 13. 6 million

Two filmed sequels followed: Topper Takes a Trip in 1939 and Topper Returns in 1941 — this last film was not based on a book.

Henri Léon Lebesgue ForMemRS (; June 28, 1875 – July 26, 1941 ) was a French mathematician most famous for his theory of integration, which was a generalization of the 17th century concept of integration — summing the area between an axis and the curve of a function defined for that axis.

He was not allowed to paint — even in private — after 1941.

* Russian — Akhmatova, Anna: Poem without a Hero ( Part I: " The Year Nineteen Thirteen ", written 1941, pub.

Pueblo de Taos ( Ansel Adams — 1941 ).

Landscape with pueblo through native Populus deltoides | cottonwood trees ( Populus deltoides ) ( Ansel Adams — 1941 ).

After the outbreak of World War II, the state was recognised by Slovakia ( 1 June 1940 ), France ( 12 July 1940 ), Romania ( 1 December 1940 ), Bulgaria ( 10 May 1941 ), Finland ( 18 July 1941 ), Denmark ( August 1941 ), Croatia ( 2 August 1941 )— all controlled or influenced by Japan's ally Germany — as well as by the China's Wang Jingwei government ( 30 November 1940 ), Thailand ( 5 August 1941 ) and the Philippines ( 1943 )— all under Japanese control.

In the Dunn-Atherton memorandum of February 4, 1942, the State Department had expected to be able to hold Russia in check by withholding agreement to her 1941 boundaries.

Work on Volume 2, was begun in 1941, interrupted by the war in 1942, and resumed in 1945.

* 1941 – World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships.

The ABC had been examined by John Mauchly in June 1941, and Isaac Auerbach, a former student of Mauchly's, alleged that it influenced his later work on ENIAC, although Mauchly denied this ( Shurkin, pg.

* 1941 – Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 7: 12 am, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for treason.

* 1941 – Tallinn, the Capital of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.

The term was popularized by G. L. Trager and Bernard Bloch in a 1941 paper on English phonology and went on to become part of standard usage within the American structuralist tradition.

* 1941 – World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organization is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion.

In 1941, interviews on American radio and favorable articles in US magazines, including a piece by Jack Alexander in The Saturday Evening Post, led to increased book sales and membership.

In 1941 it was rumored to have been inspected by the federal Works Progress Administration to determine its structural strength, but there is no evidence of this.

Roma returned to form after being inconsistent for much of the late 1930s ; Roma recorded an unexpected title triumph in the 1941 – 42 season by winning their first ever scudetto title.

After his death from cancer in 1941 his manuscripts were curated by his linguist friends who also worked to spread the influence of Whorf's ideas on the relation between language, culture and cognition.

The Bulgarian government declared a token war on the United Kingdom and the United States near the end of 1941, an act which resulted in the bombing of Sofia and other Bulgarian cities by Allied aircraft.

Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, involved a number of breakthroughs and encirclements by motorized forces.

The " Cogadh na Saoirse " medal, awarded since 1941 by the Irish government to IRA veterans of the War of Independence, bears a ribbon with two vertical stripes in black and tan.

Other continuing cars in the series were a 1941 Packard 180 with a Victoria body designed by Howard " Dutch " Darrin ( license plate number 178344 ) and a 1973 Cadillac Fleetwood limousine ( mobile telephone number KL 17811 ).

He also served as a Nazi spy in the United States and, in 1941, he was caught by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) in the largest espionage case in U. S. history: The Duquesne Spy Ring.

President Roosevelt authorized the Bronze Star Medal by Executive Order 9419 dated 4 February 1944, retroactive to 7 December 1941.

The Axis occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941 allowed the Croatian radical right Ustaše to come into power, forming the " Independent State of Croatia ", led by Ante Pavelić, who assumed the role of Poglavnik (" Head-man ") Nezavisne Drzave Hrvatske (" Leader of the Independent State of Croatia ").

* Columbus ( novel ), a 1941 novel by the British writer Rafael Sabatini depicting the explorations of Christopher Columbus

For example, during the 872-day Siege of Leningrad, reports of cannibalism began to appear in the winter of 1941 – 1942, after all birds, rats and pets were eaten by survivors.

* HH Prince Mohammed Ali Tewfik ( Cairo, 9 November 1875-Lausanne, 18 March 1955 ), married on 25 November 1941 to Suzanne Hemon, without issue

Sultan Mohammed V refused to apply these racist laws and, as a sign of defiance, insisted on inviting all the rabbis of Morocco to the 1941 throne celebrations.

Born in Baghdad on 1 July 1941 and son of the prominent Iraqi figure Mohammed Ridha Al-Shabibi, Dr. Al-Shabibi holds a B. Sc.

* 1941 – World War II: Concerned that Reza Pahlavi the Shah of Persia is about to ally his petroleum-rich empire with Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union invade Iran in late August and force the Shah to abdicate in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

* Reza Shah Pahlavi, until 1941

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the most recent Shah of Iran, from 1941 to 1979

In September 1941, Reza Shah Pahlavi was forced to abdicate his throne.

Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran reigned for more than 37 years ( 1941 – 1979 ) until he fled during the Iranian Revolution, which replaced 2500 years of monarchy with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

In 1941 Reza Shah Pahlavi was forced to abdicate in favor of his son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi by the British.

On 25 August 1941, armed forces of the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union invaded Persia and removed the pro-German Shah Reza Shah.

Rezā Shāh Pahlavi (;, born Rezā Khan ( March 15, 1878 – July 26, 1944 ), was the Shah of the Imperial State of Iran from December 15, 1925, until he was forced to abdicate by the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran on September 16, 1941.

Along with the modernization of the nation, Reza Shah was the ruler during the time of the Women's Awakening ( 1936 – 1941 ).

1925 – 1941 ) and Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi ( reg.

In August 1941, because Reza Shah refused to expel the German nationals, Britain and the Soviet Union invaded Iran, arrested the Shah and sent him into exile, taking control of Iran's communications and railroad.

In 1941 Reza Shah was deposed and his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was installed by an invasion of allied British and Soviet troops.

Reza Khan was subsequently proclaimed Shah as Reza Shah Pahlavi, reigning from 1925 to 1941,

He was released from prison after Reza Shah was deposed by the Allies in 1941.

Tadj ol-Molouk of Iran ( born Nimtaj Ayromlou, 17 March 1896-10 March 1982 ) was the daughter of General Teymūr Khan Ayromlou, and the Queen Consort of Reza Shah, founder of the Pahlavi dynasty and Shah of Iran between 1915 and 1941.

An act of Vosough od-Dowleh government in 1919 introduced the use of surnames, and the practice expanded during the reign of Reza Shah ( r. 1925 – 1941 ).

Following the forced abdication of Reza Shah in 1941, the British came to believe that Zahedi was planning a general uprising in cooperation with German forces, and as one of the worst grain-hoarders, was responsible for widespread popular discontent.

In 1941 his son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi became Shah.

In September 1941 the Allies took over operation of the Trans-Iranian Railway: British and Empire Royal Engineers ( RE ) commanded by Brigadier Godfrey D. Rhodes operating the Southern Division between Tehran and the port of Bandar Shahpur on the Persian Gulf and the Soviet Army operating the Northern Division between Tehran and the port of Bandar Shah on the Caspian Sea.