Jump on our Virtual Newsstand as we journey back to 1941. See and read the comic books on sale month by month, and find out the major news of the day.

January: Australian & British forces capture Italian held Tobruk. The harbor is strategically important to supply a desert campaign.

February: Lothar von Arnauld de la Periere is killed in a plane crash. The World War I U-boat commander sank a record 194 ships.

March: President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Bill to supply materials to the Allies. This ends U.S. pretense of neutrality.

April: The America First Committee holds its first mass rally in New York City. It will shut down after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

May: After a solo flight, Rudolf Hess deputy chief of the Nazi Party parachutes into Scotland. He claims it is a peace mission.

June: Over 4 million Axis soldiers invade the USSR, code named Operation Barbarossa it is the largest invasion in warfare history.

July: The British Army form the Special Air Service (SAS). A commando force to operate behind enemy lines in North Africa.

August: Production starts on the Willys MB, a four-wheel drive utility vehicle. The U.S. Jeep will become an iconic symbol of WWII.

September: A decree signed by Reinhard Heydrich requires Jews aged 6 or over to wear the Star of David with 'Jew' inscribed.

October: Carving George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt & Abraham Lincoln on Mount Rushmore finally finishes.

November: The British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by the German submarine U-81. She sinks the following day.

December: Japanese aircraft launch an attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. America is now a combatant in World War II.