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This week we are going to take a look at the early stages of the European Theater during World War II.  This is another in our Aces High series of World War 2 timelines, and this week we will be covering April, 1941.  We hope you enjoy a look back, and we hope when you are done you will give Aces High a try. We have a free two week download of our popular combat flight simulation, so give it a try and find out why we are number one.  Now, on to April, 1941.

• 1st British retreat from El Aghelia, Libya, and Rommel decides to press his advantage and continue offensive.
• 1^st Heavy bombing continues of British cities, and British convoys suffer heavy attacks.
• 2^nd Rommel decides to take all of Libya and begins assaults.
• 3^rd Bristol, England, suffers major damage; Rommel takes Benghazi, Libya; British troops take Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, from Italian armies.
• 4^th Rommel advances on Tobruk and Egypt; Atlantic convoy suffers 50% losses from German U-Boats.
• 6^th Axis Powers move through Romania and Hungary and begin invasions of Yugoslavia and Greece.
• 6^th Italian Army is driven out of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Rommel takes Derna on Libyan coast and then takes Mechili on the 8^th.
• 7^th Luftwaffe begins two-day assault on Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
• 8^th Germans take Salonika, Greece.
• 10^th Greenland is occupied by United States; there the U.S. will build naval and air bases.
• 10^th Yugoslavia is spilt up by Germany and Italy; Croatia is established as a result.
• 11^th U.S. begins sea patrols in the Atlantic as a neutral nation.
• 11^th Germany conducts heavy air raids of Coventry and Birmingham.
• 12^th Belgrade, Yugoslavia surrenders
• 13^th Malta is bombed in an attempt to conquer it as it has been a deterrence for German supply movement in Mediterranean Sea.
• 13^th Japan and Russia sign a neutrality agreement.
• 14^th Rommel fails in attack of Tobruk.
• 15^th British destroyers sink five transports and three destroyers
• 16^th Heavy air raid on Belfast, Northern Ireland
• 17^th All of Yugoslavia surrenders
• 19^th London suffers heavy losses in air raids.
• 21^st 223,000 Greek soldiers surrender in Albania
• 22^nd British army begins to evacuate Greece
• 23^rd Greek government is evacuated to Crete
• 24^th Plymouth suffers from heavy bombing once again.
• 25^th Rommel wins victory at Halfaya Pass near Egypt.
• 26^th Rommel crosses into Egypt
• 27^th Athens is occupied by Germany; Greece surrenders

These were indeed the dark days of the war for the Allied cause, but brighter days were ahead. In a mere nine months the tide of the war would begin to change.