September 25th, 1941 (THURSDAY)
U.S.S.R.: Soviet forces in the Crimea are now isolated by the Germans. They begin attacks, with support from paratroop units, near Perekop.
Hitler orders all attacks by Heeresgruppe Nord (von Leeb) on Leningrad stopped; the city is to be besieged and starved-out, and after its eventual surrender, levelled to the ground.
CROATIA: The Italians reoccupy the demilitarized zone to secure Italy's Adriatic flank.
CANADA: Patrol boat
HMCS Kuitan launched.
Corvettes HMCS Summerside and Drumheller
arrive Halifax from builders.
U.S.A.: The motion picture "A Yank in the RAF" premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California. Directed by Henry King, this war musical/drama stars Tyrone Power, Betty Grable and Reginald Gardiner. Tyrone plays a "hot shot" pilot who enlists in the RCAF and ferries aircraft to the U.K. There he meets his old girlfriend (Gable). He then begins to understand what the war is about.
Marshall requests Stark
delay converting three freighters into escort carriers to increase shipping lift
for the reinforcements being sent to the Philippines.
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor are greeted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and cheering crowds as they arrive in Washington for their first visit together.
The motion picture "Lydia" is released today.
Directed by Julien Duvivier, this romantic drama adopted from the French film
"Un Carnet de Bal" stars Merle Oberon, Alan Marshal and Joseph Cotton.
This tearjerker has an elderly woman (Oberon) meeting her former beaux and
recalling their courtship. The film is nominated for a musical Academy Award.
In baseball, the Brooklyn Dodgers win their first National League pennant in 21
years as the second-place St. Louis Cardinals lose their game and the Dodgers
defeat the Boston Braves 6-0.
ATLANTIC OCEAN:
U-124 sank SS Empire Stream in
Convoy HG-73.
During a battle against convoy HG-73
U-124 unsuccessfully attacked
a British cruiser with two torpedoes.
In first successful US Navy escort of convoys during World War II, Navy escort
turn over HX-150 to British escorts at the Mid-Ocean Meeting Point. All ships
reach port safely]