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• Hitler ordered a halt to attacks on Leningrad in northern Russia, instead ordering that the city be starved into submission. ww2dbase [Siege of Leningrad | TH]
• Zuikaku was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Zuikaku | CPC]
• German submarine U-124 sank British ship Empire Stream 500 miles north of the Azores islands at 0744 hours; 8 were killed, 27 survived. ww2dbase [CPC]
• John Kennedy enlisted in the US Navy. ww2dbase [John Kennedy | CPC]
• The Jager Report (issued on 1 Dec 1941) noted that 215 adult male, 229 adult female, and 131 children, all Jews, were killed in Jahiuna, Lithuania for a total of 575 people. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
• Captain Tsunekichi Fukuzawa was named the commanding officer of repair ship Akashi. ww2dbase [Akashi | CPC]

• Morosini sighted a large bomber in the Atlantic Ocean at 0854 hours; she submerged to avoid detection. ww2dbase [Morosini | CPC]

• USS New Mexico departed at Reykjavik, Iceland. ww2dbase [New Mexico | Reykjavik | CPC]

• German and Romanian troops reached the Perekop Isthmus in Russia and began to cut off the Crimean Peninsula. ww2dbase [Krym | CPC]

• Georges Boris, the Free French liaison with the BBC, spoke on air and called on all French people to stop the Germans from taking French goods. ww2dbase [CPC]

• The keel of submarine Sunfish was laid down at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States. ww2dbase [Mare Island Navy Yard | Sunfish (Gato-class) | Vallejo, California | CPC]

25 Sep 1941 Interactive Map