• 1942 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in January 1942: The Declaration...
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    (3 January 1942 – 26 January 1942), the Lyuban Offensive Operation (7 January 1942 – 30 April 1942), the Demyansk Offensive Operation (7 January 1942 –...
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    withdraw their best division and the bulk of their airpower in early January 1942. That, coupled with the defenders' decision to withdraw into a defensive...
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    to this article: Adolf Hitler's Speech at the Berlin Sportpalast (30 January 1942) Ten days after the Wannsee Conference at which the Final Solution was...
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    Operation Postmaster (category Conflicts in 1942)
    Scale Raiding Force (SSRF) and the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in January 1942. Their objective was to board the Italian and German ships in the harbour...
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  • 1942 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1942. 1942 (MCMXLII)...
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  • The list of shipwrecks in January 1942 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during January 1942. For the sinking of the Panamanian...
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    New Britain in the Australian Territory of New Guinea, from 23 January into February 1942. It was a strategically significant defeat of Allied forces by...
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  • periods: First (22 June 1941 – 18 November 1942) Second (19 November 1942 – 31 December 1943) Third (1 January 1944 – 9 May 1945) The war with Japan, the...
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    René Angélil (category 1942 births)
    Angélil CM OQ (French pronunciation: [ʁəne ɑ̃ʒelil]; (1942-01-16)16 January 1942 – (2016-01-14)14 January 2016) was a Canadian musical producer, talent manager...
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  • 1942 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in June 1942: Adolf Hitler visited...
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    American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM) was formed on 1 January 1942, to control all Allied forces in South East Asia and the South West Pacific...
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    The Battle of Bataan (Tagalog: Labanan sa Bataan; January 7 – April 9, 1942) was fought by the United States and the Philippine Commonwealth against Japan...
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    Gus March-Phillipps (category 1942 deaths)
    character of James Bond. In the Daily Telegraph, Max Hastings noted: "In January 1942 he launched Operation Postmaster, a picaresque 'cutting-out expedition'...
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  • all time, Casablanca. The top ten 1942 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: January 16 – Actress Carole Lombard is killed...
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    Philippine Islands. Much of the fleet was destroyed by the Japanese by February 1942, after which it was dissolved, and the remnants incorporated into the naval...
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    She departed Davao on 2 January 1942. Chitose was anchored in Malalag Bay in Davao Gulf on the coast of Mindanao on 4 January 1942 when U.S. Army Air Forces...
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    The third Battle of Changsha (24 December 1941 – 15 January 1942; Chinese: 第三次長沙會戰) was the first major offensive in China by Imperial Japanese forces...
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    in Berlin on 20 January 1942, Reinhard Heydrich outlined the Final Solution to the Jewish Question to senior Nazis, and from early 1942 freight trains...
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    the invasion of the Soviet Union, known as Operation Barbarossa. On 10 January 1942, he was ordered to collect radio equipment from an army post. He was...
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    sever diplomatic ties with the Vichy Government until November 1942. In January 1942, the Free French leadership decided to send Surcouf to the Pacific...
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    The Bombing of Darwin, also known as the Battle of Darwin, on 19 February 1942 was the largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia...
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    Final Solution (category 1942 in Europe)
    formulated in procedural and geopolitical terms by Nazi leadership in January 1942 at the Wannsee Conference held near Berlin, and culminated in the Holocaust...
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    convinced producer Hal B. Wallis to purchase the film rights to the play in January 1942. Brothers Julius and Philip G. Epstein were initially assigned to write...
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    the Second World War. Japanese forces invaded the island on 19 February 1942 and were resisted by a small, under-equipped force of Allied military personnel—known...
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    World War II by country (category Articles with dead external links from January 2017)
    they were involved from January 1942 in Malaya, the Dutch East Indies and the Australian territory of New Guinea. During mid-1942 Militia troops fought...
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    The First Battle of Balikpapan took place on 23–25 January 1942, off the major oil-producing town and port of Balikpapan, on Borneo, in the Netherlands...
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  • City's WOR on February 12, 1940. On Mutual, it was broadcast from August 31, 1942, to February 4, 1949, as a 15-minute serial, running three or, usually, five...
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  • Gazala: May–June 1942 Battle of Bir Hakeim: May–June 1942 First Battle of El Alamein: July 1942 Battle of Alam el Halfa: August–September 1942 Second Battle...
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  • Panzer Army Africa (category Articles with unsourced statements from January 2019)
    August 1941 – January 1942; German-Italian force Panzer Army Africa, (Panzerarmee Afrika, Armata Corazzata Africa) January–October 1942 German-Italian...
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