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- 1940 100,000 welcome home HMS Achilles crew
- 1940 Jockey Y-fronts hit NZ shops
- 1940 John A. Lee expelled from Labour Party
- 1940 Funeral procession for Labour PM Savage
- 1940 Fighter ace Edgar ‘Cobber’ Kain killed
- 1940 Niagara sunk by German mines off Northland
- 1940 Turakina sunk by German raider in Tasman
- 1940 Liner sunk by German raiders off East Cape
- 1941 Women's Auxiliary Air Force founded
- 1941 NZ troops arrive in Greece
- 1941 Sinking of the Hellas
- 1941 Jack Hinton wins the Victoria Cross
- 1941 NZ minesweeper sunk off Bream Head
- 1941 German paratroops assault Crete
- 1941 Finnish barque Pamir seized as war prize
- 1941 Death penalty abolished ... for the time being
- 1941 NZ pilot saves Scottish village
- 1941 Stan Graham runs amok on West Coast
- 1941 Fugitive Stan Graham shot by police
- 1941 New Zealand declares war on Japan
- 1941 HMS Neptune lost in Mediterranean minefield
- 1942 Nazi sabotage hoax
- 1942 First US troops arrive in Auckland
- 1942 Attack on the Nino Bixio
- 1942 NZ coastwatchers executed by the Japanese
- 1942 Women Jurors Act allows women to sit on juries
- 1942 NZ Division helps Allies break through at El Alamein
- 1942 Troopship Awatea goes down fighting
- 1942 Fire at Seacliff Mental Hospital kills 37
- 1943 49 killed in Featherston POW incident
- 1943 'Battle of Manners Street'
- 1943 NZ ship torpedoed in Tasman
- 1943 Turning point in Battle of the Atlantic
- 1943 Rail tragedy at Hyde
- 1943 US Navy tragedy at Paekākāriki
- 1943 NZ troops make first opposed landing since Gallipoli
- 1944 NZ and Australia sign the Canberra Pact
- 1944 NZ forces capture Castle Hill at Cassino
- 1944 CORSO formed
- 1944 Kiwi pilot's sacrifice saves French village
- 1944 Polish refugees land in New Zealand
- 1944 Poll tax on Chinese immigrants abolished
- 1944 Major Major, mascot of 19 Battalion, dies of sickness
- 1945 Kiwi soldier faces firing squad
- 1945 Death of John Mulgan
- 1945 NZ celebrates Victory in Europe
- 1945 Upham presented with VC
- 1945 The war is over! VJ Day
- 1946 Jayforce lands in Japan
- 1947 Liner Wanganella refloated after 18 days on Barrett Reef
- 1947 Debut performance of NZ Symphony Orchestra
- 1947 Death of Frances Hodgkins
- 1947 Mabel Howard becomes first woman Cabinet minister
- 1947 Assisted immigration resumes after war
- 1947 Civic funeral for 41 Ballantyne's fire victims
- 1948 Killer twister hits Frankton
- 1948 New Zealand citizenship established
- 1948 Mt Ruapehu air crash kills 13
- 1949 Foundation of IHC
- 1949 Election of first National government