Monday July 7, 1941. Marines in Iceland, Churchill writes Stalin, Patton in a turret, protests in New York City, rebellion in Yugoslavia.

U.S. Marines landed in Iceland.  President Roosevelt sent a note to Congress explaining the act as one necessary to protect Greenland, a Danish possession and frankly to protect arms shipments to the United Kingdom.

Marines in Iceland during World War Two.

The July issue of Life magazine featured George S. Patton in the turret of a light tank. The photograph remains a famous one.

On the same day Churchill sent a letter to Stalin praising Soviet resistance and vaguely promising British support to the USSR.  Churchill noted the UK's "growing resources".  On the same day, a protest in New York City urged the US to stop supplying arms to the UK.  Stalin wasn't impressed by the letter and asked for a formal written alliance between the two countries.

Serbian poster urging rebellion and the recruitment of partisans.

The Communist party in Servia revolted against the Serbian puppet regime and a rebellion also broke out in Herzegovina.

It was becoming clear that Yugoslavia was not going to enter the Axis sphere and would require a constant German presence.  The country had rebelled against its own government in order to oppose cooperation with the Axis in the first place and the rebellions of this date were at least the third to break out in that country.