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Lend-Lease is introduced into the U.S. Congress. The USA would supply vast amounts of war material to the allied nations between 1939 and 1945.

While escorting a convoy, HMS Illustrious comes under Stuka attack 60 miles west of Malta. She is hit by 8 bombs and suffers extensive damage. While she is being repaired , Allied ability to prevent the German landings in North Africa is hampered.

Australian 6th division (part of XIII Corps or The Western Desert Force) attack and take Bardia. 45,000 Italian prisoners are taken.

German bombers, perhaps off course, bomb Ireland two nights in a row.

Despite her age and mechanical problems, she participated in the 1940-41 Greco-Italian War under the command of Lt Cdr Miltiadis Iatridis, carrying out six war patrols in the Adriatic. During one of these, she sank the Italian ship Antonietta.