October 26th, 1941 (SUNDAY)
GERMANY: Tonight the RAF attacks Hamburg with 115 bombers.
YUGOSLAVIA: Belgrade: They seek him here in the ruined capital of Yugoslavia; they seek him out there in the rugged, mountainous countryside so ideal for guerrilla fighting; the Germans seek him everywhere and bring in more and more troops daily to search for this man whose name they do not know and his partisan bands who grow in numbers daily. Josip Broz, a former sergeant in the Austro-Hungarian army, became a dedicated communist while a prisoner of the Russians and spent years in Yugoslav prisons for his beliefs. While he organized his partisan bands from a luxury villa here - with an escape hatch behind the wash-basin - he used more than 20 aliases until he settled on "Tito". Until today, Tito's partisans have maintained a guarded alliance against the Germans with the Chetnik fighters who are led by an army colonel, Drazha Mihailovich. The two men met today soon after the Germans started killing 100 Yugoslavs for every German soldier killed. Tito wants a joint command, but Mihailovich is opposed to sharing leadership in this way.
NORTH AFRICA: Tobruk: The operation to relieve the Australian garrison with the British 70th Infantry Division; begun on 12 October, ends; at least one ship, the minelayer HMS LATONA, has been lost to Stuka dive-bombers.
CANADA: Corvette HMCS Sudbury arrived Halifax from builder Montreal, Province of Quebec.
ATLANTIC OCEAN: During the battle against convoy HG-75, U-71 attacked an escort with a four-torpedo fan, but all missed. The escort fought back with depth charges, damaging the boat so severely that she was forced to return to base.
U-83 damaged AMC HMS Ariguani in Convoy HG-75.