Time The Weekly News Magazine Volume XXXVII Number 25 June 23, 1941 hd

Luce, Henry R. et al

Published by Time & Life, New York, 1941

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Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 96. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. Weekly Timeline: June 16: All German and Italian consulates in the United States are ordered closed and their staffs to leave the country by July 10. 20: Under the directives of the United States Department of War, the bulk of the personnel of what had been known as the United States Army Air Corps up to this date are brought into what becomes the United States Army Air Forces from this date forward, with General Henry H. Arnold as its first commander. As part of the reorganization, General Headquarters Air Force is renamed Air Force Combat Command; the new Army Air Forces organization consists of Air Force Combat Command (its combat element), with the existing logistics and training element retaining the older "United States Army Air Corps" designation. 22: Germany invades the Soviet Union with Operation Barbarossa, a three-pronged operation aimed at Leningrad, Moscow, and the southern oil fields of the Caucasus, ending the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact. Romania invades south-western border areas of the Soviet Union in Europe on the side of Germany. . British general in Libya/Egypt Wavell is replaced by General Auchinleck. . June Uprising against the Soviet Union in Lithuania.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Time The Weekly News Magazine Volume XXXVII Number 25 June 23, 1941 hd
• Publisher: Time & Life, New York
• Publication Date: 1941
• Binding: Paperbound
• Condition: In quite good condition.
• Seller catalogs:
  • History World War II