1941 The Second World War continued in 1941 . Dated events . January - June . On 1 January , Professor Bernice Summerfield arrived on Guernsey in the English Channel . ( AUDIO : " Just War " ) On 20 January , Captain Jack Harkness and Toshiko Sato met the real Captain Jack Harkness at the Kiss the Boys Goodbye Dance at the Ritz in Cardiff . Tosh sent a message to Torchwood Three in 2008 containing her half of the Rift Manipulator formula to bring her and Jack back . ( TV : " Captain Jack Harkness " ) On 21 January , Captain Jack Harkness was killed in aerial combat while protecting Cardiff from a bombing raid . ( TV : " Captain Jack Harkness " ) In London , another American Royal Air Force volunteer who was also named Captain Jack Harkness failed to report for duty and was never heard from again . ( TV : " Everything Changes " ) Thomas Erasmus Flanagan was forgotten at a train station . ( TV : " Ghost Machine " ) From 1 March to 6 March , Professor Bernice Summerfield , stranded on Nazi - occupied Guernsey , uncovered a secret German weapon based on technology from the future . ( AUDIO : " Just War " ) On 7 June , Clyde Langer and George Woods evaded a group of Nazis after taking a piece of Chronosteel from them . Shortly afterward , Clyde returned to Ealing on 23 November 2010 . George was inspired by Clyde to join the British Army . ( TV : " Lost in Time " ) In June , the war spread into Eastern Europe as Germany attacked the Soviet Union . ( PROSE : " Just War " , " Losing the Audience " ) July - December . On 18 August , Bilis Manger contacted Tilda Brennan and suggested she follow the instructions in File TW3 / 87 / BM . ( PROSE : " The Twilight Streets " ) On 22 August , Jack Harkness returned to the Hub to find the personnel of Torchwood Three incapacitated by Tilda Brennan , shot dead when the Light gave up possession of her body . The Light used the diary of Gideon Tarry to take the body of Greg Bishop . ( PROSE : " The Twilight Streets " ) On 2 November , the Torajenn and Susini attempted to use of Day of the Dead celebrations in Coyoacan to harvest human body parts . The Torajenn used their bio - nuclear force field s to assume the appearance of dead loved ones and get close enough to humans to strip their flesh and steal their skeletons . The Eighth Doctor and Izzy Sinclair arrived in Coyoacan and were separated . While Izzy helped Frida Kahlo protect a large celebration in the town ' s cemetery from the Torajenn , the Doctor met Diego Rivera and killed the Torajenn and Susini . For a few more days in early November , the Doctor and Izzy stayed with Frida and Diego in their Coyoacan home . ( COMIC : " The Way of All Flesh " ) In December , the United States of America became involved in the war when Japan ese forces bombed Pearl Harbour . Two days later , Terrence Moody was shot down during the Battle of the Philippines . ( PROSE : " Happily Ever After Is a High - Risk Strategy " ) Reg Arwell ' s plane crashed , but later landed thanks to Madge . ( TV : " The Doctor , the Widow and the Wardrobe " ) On 24 December , Madge Arwell and her children Cyril and Lily met the Doctor . Cyril found a Christmassy land with naturally growing Christmas trees . Lily and the Doctor followed him . Madge later followed as well . ( TV : " The Doctor , the Widow and the Wardrobe " ) Winter arrived in Russia in December , bringing the German advance to a halt not far from Moscow . The Red Army counterattack pushed the Wehrmacht back , turning Germany ' s war into a defensive one for the first time . Germany was forced to abandon the Blitz as well as any plans of invading Britain . The possibility that Germany may lose the war began to be considered in Berlin . ( PROSE : " Just War " ) Undated events . The Ninth Doctor traced a Chula ambulance to London , thinking it a warship . He found a boy called Jamie , who had been partially resurrected by nanogene s . Jamie pursued the Doctor , Rose Tyler and Jack Harkness after Jack set off emergency protocols , releasing an army of people made to be just like Jamie searching for his mother . Nancy told Jamie that she was his mother , not his sister , after lying to him all his life . The nanogenes repaired Jamie and returned all the infected to normal . Jack began travelling in the TARDIS after the Doctor and Rose saved his life . ( TV : " The Empty Child " / " The Doctor Dances " ) Shortly afterwards , the Chula ambulance and Jamie ' s gas mask were found and stored at the Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum . ( GAME : " Security Bot " ) The Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond were summoned to the Cabinet War Rooms in London by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill . The Doctor discovered Dalek s working for Churchill . Increasingly frustrated by their charade as " soldiers " , he shouted his name at them . This testimony unwittingly activated the Progenitor , awakening the New Dalek Paradigm , who killed the older Daleks . The new Daleks distracted the Doctor by arming their robot Bracewell with a bomb that would destroy the Earth . The Doctor saved the Earth , but the Daleks escaped . ( TV : " Victory of the Daleks " ) In Shanghai , the Fourth Doctor helped a group of stranded Alpha Centauran s return home . ( PROSE : " The Shadow of Weng - Chiang " ) The United States was in the process of developing sonar . ( AUDIO : " Dark Convoy " ) The Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald visited the Sahara Desert . ( COMIC : " The Instruments of War " ) Emil Hartung was killed while test piloting the Nazi stealth plane " Hugin " in Guernsey . ( PROSE : " Just War " ) The First Doctor and Susan Foreman visited London during the Blitz . ( AUDIO : " The Alchemists " )