• 1942 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in May 1942: The British evacuated...
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    Tulagi, on 3–4 May 1942, was part of Operation Mo, the Empire of Japan's strategy in the South Pacific and South West Pacific Area in 1942. The plan called...
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  • The list of shipwrecks in May 1942 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during May 1942. "Russian Ship Sunk". The Times. No...
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    Campaign in August 1942 to Yamamoto's death in April 1943. The film, however, portrays Yamamoto's death as occurring in November 1942, the day after the...
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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 winter campaign of 1941–1942 from 5 December 1941 to 7 May 1942 was the name given by Soviet military command to the period that marked the commencement...
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  • Cauldron: Battle of Gazala, May 1942 is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1976 that simulates the Battle of Gazala during...
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    harbor and port facilities of Manila Bay were denied to the Japanese until May 1942. While the Dutch East Indies operations were unaffected, this heavily hindered...
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  • Rita May (born 9 May 1942) is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Mags in the ITV children's drama Children's Ward, Margaret in the Sky One...
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    Brazilian ships wherever they were, and from April 1942 were found in Brazilian waters. On 22 May 1942, the first Brazilian attack (although unsuccessful)...
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  • 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 Campaign...
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  • The year of 1942 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the greatest of all time, Casablanca...
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    April 1942. She made an overnight stop at Davao on 25–26 April and arrived at Sasebo on 1 May 1942. She was in drydock at Sasebo from 9 to 16 May 1942 for...
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    eliminated in May 1942. After the failure of their first assault on Sevastopol, the Axis opted to conduct siege warfare until the middle of 1942, at which...
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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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    Arthur Greenwood, who had left the war cabinet, from 22 February 1942 until 23 May 1945. The main problem for Churchill as he became Prime Minister was...
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    in Hawaiian waters. On 31 January 1942, Lieutenant Commander Yahachi Tanabe took command of I-68, and on 20 May 1942 she was renumbered I-168. Assigned...
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  • Friday 8 May 1942, Volume 59, Number 359., p. 3. Associated Press, "Flying Tragedy", The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, Sunday 24 May 1942, Volume...
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    December 1941 and began direct military assistance in North Africa on 11 May 1942. Fighting in North Africa started with the Italian declaration of war on...
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  • The action of 13 May 1942 was a naval engagement during World War II between the British Royal Navy and the German Kriegsmarine. It was an attempt by Royal...
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    British-led forces under his command, and he was relieved of the post in August 1942 during the North African campaign. In June 1943, he was once again appointed...
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  • educator (b. 1892) 1942 – John Barrymore, American actor (b. 1882) 1946 – Martin Gottfried Weiss, German SS officer (b. 1905) 1948 – May Whitty, English...
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    August 1942 Battle of Cape Esperance, 11–12 October 1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 13–15 November 1942 Battle of Tassafaronga, 30 November 1942 Operation...
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  • the Independent State of Croatia (NDH). It was carried out from mid-May to June 1942, with Chetnik forces taking part on the Italian side. The offensive...
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    was carried out in two phases within eastern Bosnia from 20 April to 13 May 1942, with Ustaše militia and Croatian Home Guard forces taking part on the...
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    reconnaissance of Kodiak Island on 24 May 1942 and of Chirikof Island and Sitkanak Island on 26 May 1942. On 27 May 1942, I-25 launched a Yokosuka E14Y1 (Allied...
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    to Melbourne in March 1942 and American troops began massing in Australia. Enemy naval activity reached Sydney in late May 1942, when Japanese midget...
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    by the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) and Kriegsmarine (German Navy). In 1942, the British assembled large flotillas of warships to escort Malta convoys...
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    crippled by the German submarine U-564 on 13 May 1942. The attack killed 13 of 35 crewmen. On 20 May 1942, a second tanker, Faja de Oro, also a seized...
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    victories, respectively. On 30 April 1942, then again on 2, 8, 13, and 14 May 1942, 14 August 1942, 2 and 23 September 1942, Hermann Graf, Luftwaffe fighter...
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