The first meeting of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board, Washington, D.C., September 2, 1941.
On this day in 1941, Finnish forces completed retaking the Karelia Isthmus, territory that had been lost to it during the Winter War. You can see this and other items here:
Today in World War II History—September 2, 1941
On this time, while Finland had thrown its fate in with Nazi Germany, it's hard not to sympathize with their immediate war aims, of which this was one. This territory had been stolen from it by the Soviet Union, and in joining the war, it was taking back what it had only recently lost. Indeed, it would stop its advance upon doing so.
Showing the true nature of its ally, however, on this day Germans, along with Lithuanians, killed 3,700 Jews from Vilna.
Australians in Lebanon were photographed on this day.
Major General A. S. "Tubby" Allen, commander of the Australian 7th Division, with Lt Colonel Murray Moten, commander of the 2/27th Infantry Battalion and his men.
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