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* 1942 – Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code.
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A decade and a half later, the Polish anthropology student, Bronisław Malinowski ( 1884 – 1942 ), was beginning what he expected to be a brief period of fieldwork in the old model, collecting lists of cultural items, when the outbreak of the First World War stranded him in New Guinea.
He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.
* 1942 – Barry Levinson, American producer and director
* 1942 – Carlos Reutemann, Argentine race car driver and politician
* 1942 – Jacob Zuma, African politician, President of South Africa
* 1942 – Daryl Dragon, American keyboardist ( Captain & Tennille )
* 1942 – Brian Peckford, Canadian politician, 3rd Premier of Newfoundland
* 1942 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
* 1942 – George Jung, American convicted drug smuggler
* 1942 – Byard Lancaster, American saxophonist ( d. 2012 )
* 1942 – Indian leader Mohanda Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.
* 1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island – Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.
* 1942 – Tommie Agee, American baseball player ( d. 2001 )
* 1942 – Jack DeJohnette, American drummer, pianist, and composer ( Gateway and Trio Beyond )
* 1942 – David Steinberg, Canadian comedian, actor, director, and author
* 1942 – Major General Eugene Reybold of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the " Development of Substitute Materials " project, better known as the Manhattan Project.
* 1872 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate ( d. 1942 )
* 1942 – Isabel Allende, Chilean author
* 2012 – Jamaa Fanaka, American director, producer, and screenwriter ( b. 1942 )
* 1942 – André Gagnon, Canadian pianist and composer
* 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Reconstruction, Old and in the Way, and New Riders of the Purple Sage ) ( d. 1995 )
* 1942 – Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor
* 1942 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1872 )
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At the end of May 1942, Eisenhower accompanied Lt. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, commanding general of the Army Air Forces, to London to assess the effectiveness of the theater commander in England, Maj. Gen. James E. Chaney.
The new controller of RSS was Lieutenant-Colonel E. F. Maltby, and from 1942 Lt. Col. Kenneth Morton Evans was appointed Deputy Controller and Roland Keen, author of " Wireless Direction Finding ", was the officer in charge of the engineering.
: Auxiliary Field 2 is named Pierce Field for Lt. Col. George E. Pierce, killed 19 January 1942 while piloting B-25C-1 Mitchell, 41-13118, which crashed into the Gulf of Mexico S of Destin, Florida.
: Auxiliary Field 4 is named Peel Field for 2nd Lt. Garland O. Peel Jr., who died in the take-off crash of Martin B-12AM, 33-262, of the 387th School Squadron, 2 January 1942, when he suffered engine failure.
: Auxiliary Field 8 is named Baldsiefen Field for 2nd Lt. Richard Edward Baldsiefen, a gunnery instructor at Eglin, killed 4 March 1942 along with Lt. John W. Smith, in the crash of AT-6A-NA Texan, 41-528, which came down at Auxiliary Field 4.
Abstract: This bibliography on the geographical, water and geological information of Guadalcanal was begun to fill a request for current information needed for the forensics recovery of the bodies of the US Marines of the Lt Col. Frank B. Goettge Reconnaissance patrol that was ambushed in August 1942.
Japanese troops forced the surrender of the remaining American and Filipino forces on May 6, 1942, under the command of Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright.
During World War II Hordern served on HMS Illustrious ( R87 ), in Operation Ironclad in 1942 and later as a Lt .- Commander in the office of the first Sea Lord.
On January 18, 1942, the commander of 16th Army Lt. General Hitoshi Imamura arrived at Takao, Taiwan from his base at Saigon.
On September 10, 1942, Lt. Bong was assigned to the 9th Fighter Squadron ( aka " Flying Knights "), 49th Fighter Group, based at Darwin, Australia.
In February 1942, the growing military airfield's name was changed to Williams Field in honor of Arizona native 1st Lt Charles Linton Williams ( 1898 – 1927 ).
Thach ( F-1 ) and Lt. O ' Hare ( F-13 ) during the aerial photography flight of April 11, 1942.
The younger one, Flight Lt Michael Oser Weizmann ( d. 1942, aged twenty-five ), serving as a pilot in the British No. 502 Squadron RAF, was killed when his plane was shot down over the Bay of Biscay.
* Eugenie Pamela Wavell, b. 2 December 1918, married 14 March 1942 Lt Col A F W Humphrys MBE.
Following a groundswell of sentiment in favor of naming the Windsor Locks airfield in Lt. Bradley's honor, the airfield became Army Air Base, Bradley Field, Connecticut on January 20, 1942.
( Lt. Col .), Get Tough !, 1942 ISBN 0-87364-002-0 ( 1999 reprint )
In 1942, Lange became a Obersturmbannführer ( Lt.
In the fall of 1942, two additional Raider battalions were created ; the 3rd Raiders in Samoa, commanded by Lt. Col. Harry B. Liversedge, and the 4th Raiders at Camp Pendleton, California, commanded by now-Lt. Col. James Roosevelt.
Named for USMC aviator Lt. Cecil J. Doyle, posthumous recipient of the Navy Cross for heroism during 18 to 25 October 1942 in the Solomon Islands campaign.
Lt Gen. Arthur Percival, led by a Japanese officer, walks under a flag of truce to negotiate the Battle of Singapore | capitulation of Allied forces in Singapore, on 15 February 1942
In December 1941, Wright enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces, and after training was commissioned as an Air Corps 2nd Lt. in 1942.
It was established at New Delhi, India on 12 February 1942, around a nucleus of air force personnel newly arrived from Java and the Philippines, under the command of Major General ( later Lt. General ) Louis Brereton.
Lt Gen Arthur Percival, led by a Japanese officer ( center ), marches under a flag of truce to negotiate the capitulation of Allied forces during the Battle of Singapore, on February 15, 1942.
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