Battleship USS North Carolina (BB-55) during her shakedown cruise, May 1941 (US Navy photo 80-G-K-13972) 85 Years Ago—Apr. 9, 1941: Germans take Salonika, Greece. US signs agreement with Danish ambassador to the US Henrik Kauffmann, allowing the US to build military facilities to defend Greenland; the agreement is approved by officials in Greenland, but denounced by the government in German-occupied Copenhagen. Battleship USS North Carolina is commissioned, New York Navy Yard, NY, the first US battleship since 1923. Danish Ambassador to the US Henrik Kauffmann, 1932 (public domain via Bibliothèque nationale de France)The post Today in World War II History—April 9, 1941 first appeared on Sarah Sundin.