Eighty Years Ago: Asia Pacific, Sep 25 – Oct 1, 1941

Sep 25, 1941: John F. Kennedy joins the US Naval Reserve

Sep 26, 1941: Japanese Army’s 6th Division clashes with Chinese 74th Army during battle of Changsha in central China

Sep 27, 1941: Japanese Army says it has entered city of Changsha, central China, following fierce fighting

Sep 28, 1941: New data show Japan has world’s third-largest merchant marine after Britain and the United States

Sep 29, 1941: Chinese forces launch counterattack against Japanese at city of Changsha

Sep 30, 1941: Woodrow Wilson Street in the partly Japanese-occupied north Chinese city of Tianjin is renamed New Asia Street following Japanese pressure to erase the reference to the former US president

Oct 1, 1941: US Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox promises ‘to bring defeat to the legions of Hitler and his satellites in Italy and Japan’

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