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