The Office of Lend Lease Administration was established on this day in 1941 to oversee that effort, something I only am aware of due to the link below:
Today in World War II History—October 28, 1941
Lend Lease was a massive effort, suffice it to say, and was one of the primary ways in which the US helped bring about the Allied victory.
In the US, the classic film How Green Was My Valley, about Welsh miners, was released. The John Ford epic is highly regarded, as is the semi biographical book it is taken from, but I've not read the book nor seen the film myself.
The Germans reached Tula south of Moscow, but were stopped there. They would not take the city.
The troops that reached the border of the city were under Guderian's command. While I can't find it offhand, I think that Tula is the city which Guderian made the really odd comment about "Tula, long drive, blond girl".
I have no idea what that means.
Lavrentiy Beria, Soviet Georgian, rapist, murderer and head of the Soviet NKVD had twenty former Soviet military officers and politicians executed in Kuybyshev.
In his capacity as an official murderer (rape was his hobby, being the bloody head of the NKVD his occupation) he was responsible for the deaths of thousands, but would go on to be executed following the death of his murderous patron, fellow Georgian Stalin, by natural. . . maybe, causes.
Australia opened its first diplomatic mission to China, opening it in Chunking due to wartime conditions in the country.
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