24 Oct 1941

- German troops captured Belgorod, Russia. ww2dbase [TH]
- German troops captured Kharkov, Ukraine. ww2dbase [First Battle of Kharkov | TH]
- Elements of the German 4th Panzer Division moved from Mtsensk, Russia northward toward Moscow, reaching Chern 20 kilometers away. ww2dbase [Battle of Moscow | CPC]
- Romanian troops massacred Ukranian civilians in the village of Dalnik near Odessa, setting fire to warehouses full of people. ww2dbase [CPC]
- German submarines U-563 attacked Allied convoy HG-75 300 miles west of Gibraltar at 0038 hours, damaging British destroyer HMS Cossack with a torpedo; 159 were killed, 60 survived. At 0636 hours, U-564 joined in on the attack, sinking British ships Carsbreck, Ariosto, and Alhama; 30 were killed, 96 survived. ww2dbase [CPC]
- British minesweeping trawlers HMS Lucienne Jeanne and HMT Emilion struck naval mines and sank in the Thames Estuary in southern England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [CPC]
- 50 communists were executed by the Germans at Camp Souge, France in retaliation for the killing of German occupation administrator Hans-Gottfried Reimers three days prior. ww2dbase [CPC]
- After sundown, British minelaying cruiser HMS Abdiel and destroyers HMS Kandahar, HMS Kingston, and HMS Griffin departed Alexandria, Egypt with troops and supplies for Tobruk, Libya, returning with troops of Australian 9th Division early in the next day. ww2dbase [Siege of Tobruk | CPC]
- Tatsuta Maru departed Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii for San Francisco, California, United States. ww2dbase [Tatsuta Maru | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
- Finland established Petrozavodsk Concentration Camp No. 1 in Petrozavodsk (Äänislinna) in occupied East Karelia. ww2dbase [Petrozavodsk Concentration Camp | Petrozavodsk, Karelia | CPC]
- Franklin Roosevelt hosted Princess Märtha of Sweden (Crown Princess of Norway) at his home in Hyde Park, New York, United States. ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | Hyde Park, New York | CPC]


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