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Jockey Y-fronts hit New Zealand shops
1940
100,000 Aucklanders welcome home HMS
Achilles
1940
Liner sunk off East Cape
1940
Turakina
sunk by German raider in Tasman
1940
Niagara
mined off Northland coast
1940
Funeral procession for Prime Minister Savage
1940
John A. Lee expelled from Labour Party
1940
Fighter ace Edgar ‘Cobber’ Kain killed
1941
25 Battalion suffers heavy casualties at Point 175
1941
HMS
Neptune
lost in Mediterranean minefield
1941
New Zealand at war with Japan
1941
Stan Graham's killing spree on West Coast
1941
New Zealand pilot saves Scottish village
1941
Flogging and whipping abolished
1941
Finnish sailing ship seized as war prize
1941
German paratroops land on Crete
1941
New Zealand minesweeper sunk near Hauraki Gulf
1941
Jack Hinton awarded the Victoria Cross
1941
Sinking of the
Hellas
1941
New Zealand troops arrive in Greece
1941
Women's Auxiliary Air Force founded
1941
First women enter police training
1942
Attack on the
Nino Bixio
1942
Deadly fire at Seacliff Mental Hospital
1942
Troopship
Awatea
goes down fighting
1942
2 New Zealand Division leads breakthrough at El Alamein
1942
Women Jurors Act allows women to sit on juries
1942
New Zealand coastwatchers executed by the Japanese
1942
First US troops arrive in Auckland Harbour
1942
Nazi sabotage hoax
1943
First opposed New Zealand landing since Gallipoli
1943
Eleanor Roosevelt visits Auckland
1943
US Navy tragedy at Paekākāriki
1943
Turning point in Battle of the Atlantic
1943
New Zealand ship torpedoed in Tasman Sea
1943
Battle of Manners Street
1943
49 killed in Featherston POW incident
1943
Rail tragedy at Hyde
1944
New Zealand and Australia sign the Canberra Pact
1944
New Zealand 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
Air Vice-Marshal Isitt accepts Japanese surrender
1945
The war is over! VJ Day
1945
Charles Upham presented with first Victoria Cross
1945
Death of John Mulgan
1945
Kiwi soldier faces firing squad
1945
New Zealand celebrates Victory in Europe
1946
Main body of Jayforce lands in Japan
1947
Greymouth beer boycott provoked
1947
Civic funeral for 41 Ballantynes fire victims
1947
41 die in Ballantynes fire
1947
Assisted immigration resumes after war
1947
Mabel Howard becomes first female Cabinet minister
1947
Death of Frances Hodgkins
1947
National Orchestra debuts
1947
Liner
Wanganella
refloated in Wellington Harbour
1948
14-year-old finds New Zealand’s oldest fossils
1948
Killer twister hits Frankton
1948
New Zealand citizenship established
1948
Mt Ruapehu air crash kills 13
1949
Foundation of IHC
1949
First female Māori MP elected
1949
Election of first National government
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