Battle of Crete
1941 · Event
First mainly airborne invasion in history; Germans took Crete at heavy paratrooper losses.
On these timelines: Master, World War II
Around 1941
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)