As the U-boats continued to be the arm of the Kriegsmarine that was doing most of the fighting, by 1942 Raeder was becoming increasingly overshadowed by Admiral Karl Dönitz, who made little secret of his contempt for the " battleship admiral " Raeder, and started to act more and more independently, for instance, dealing directly with Albert Speer in settling construction targets for the U-boats.

The introductory act of this crime was the so-called " first operation " from 11-19 of June 1942.

Probably the worst act of reprisal was the assault on the fishing village of Telavåg in the spring of 1942.

In March 1942, the War Production Board's first rationing act had a direct effect on the manufacture of suits and all clothing containing wool.

The " Sabre Dance " ( Suserov par ) is a movement in the final act of the ballet Gayane, written by Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian and completed in 1942.

The first aircraft built was a Harlow PC-5 On 2 April 1942, the government announced that the company had been nationalised when it had bought out the stakes of Walchand Hirachand and other promoters so that it could act freely.

The decoration was established by an act of Congress on August 7, 1942.

The government, however, argued that " a mountain of evidence " indicated that these acts in the aggregate did have a substantial effect ; for this proposition it relied on Wickard v. Filburn ( 1942 ), which held that Congress could regulate an individual act that lacked a substantial effect on interstate commerce if, when aggregated, acts of that sort had the required relation to interstate commerce.

In the 20th century, antisemitism and Social Darwinism culminated in an unparalleled act of genocide, called the Holocaust, in which some six million Jews were exterminated in Nazi occupied Europe between 1942 and 1945 under the National Socialist regime of Adolf Hitler.

Non-Muslims auctioning off their furniture to pay for the tax. The bill for the one-off tax was proposed by the Şükrü Saracoğlu government, and the act was adopted by the Turkish parliament on November 11, 1942.

The usage of deadpan as a verb (' to speak, act, or utter in a deadpan manner ; to maintain a dead pan ') is recorded at least as far back as 1942.

McWilliams left his government post in 1942, when incoming governor Earl Warren promised campaign audiences that his first official act would be to fire McWilliams.

Germany initially supported Tuka, but since 1942 when deportations of Jews started and a Germany-inspired act identifying Tiso and the HSLS-SSJN with the country itself ( the " Führer "- principle ) was forcibly adopted, Tiso's moderate wing had full support of Germany, whose only concern was the Jewish question and no problems whatsoever at German borders.

Although the congress at first had no political aspirations, in 1942 it asserted its claim to act as the spokesman for all Sudanese nationalists.

The Women's Reserve was authorized by act of Congress on 23 November 1942 and soon became known as SPARS ; derived from the Coast Guard's Motto: Semper Paratus, Always Ready.

Syd Little ( born Cyril Mead on 19 December 1942 ) is an English comedian and was once the straight man in the double act Little and Large, with Eddie Large.

Little and Large were a British comedy double act comprising straight man Syd Little ( Born Cyril Mead in 1942 ) and comic Eddie Large ( Born Edward McGinnis in Glasgow in 1941 ).

On March 11, 1942, the remaining boats of the squadron transported General Douglas MacArthur and several high-ranking officers from Corregidor to Mindanao, an act which earned every member of the squadron the Silver Star.

His film career started in 1942, when producers from Ealing Studios were looking for a young Scot to act in The Foreman Went to France and he was suggested for the part.

A Lancaster Mk I ( R5727 ) from Avro Aircraft ( UK ) was flown across the Atlantic in August 1942, to act as a " pattern " aircraft for production.

In 1942 he began to act in movies but also continued working on plays.

The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps ( WAAC ) was created by act of Congress on 14 May 1942, permitting them to serve, but not as Soldiers.

In 1942, the Coleman National Fish Hatchery ( Coleman NFH ) was established under an act of the U. S. Congress to mitigate the loss of historic spawning habitat caused by the construction of the dams.

The first act of the Wafd government installed by the British in 1942 was to dissolve parliament and call for elections.

* 1942 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.

By 1942, with the war industries booming and the draft in operation, need declined and Congress voted to close the program.

The CCC disbanded one year earlier than planned, as the 77th United States Congress ceased funding, causing it to conclude operations formally at the end of the federal fiscal year on June 30, 1942.

Congress provided funding for shutting the remaining camps down in 1942 with the equipment being reallocated .. It became a model for conservation programs that were implemented in the period after World War II.

This is " distinct from the thousands of earlier recordings on acetate and aluminum discs he made from 1933 to 1942 under the auspices of the Library of Congress.

Following the Quit India resolution passed by the Congress party in Bombay ( now Mumbai ) on 8 Aug 1942, the entire Congress working committee, including Gandhi and Nehru, was arrested and imprisoned.

An Act of Congress ( Public Law 671 — 77th Congress, Chapter 508, 2d Session ) on July 20, 1942, established the Legion of Merit and provided that the medal " shall have suitable appurtenances and devices and not more than four degrees, and which the President, under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe, may award to

Tensions escalated until Gandhi demanded immediate independence in 1942 and the British responded by imprisoning him and tens of thousands of Congress leaders for the duration.

Gandhi and the entire Congress Working Committee were arrested in Bombay by the British on 9 August 1942.

Authorization for the Silver Star was placed into law by an Act of Congress for the U. S. Navy on August 7, 1942 and an Act of Congress for the U. S. Army on December 15, 1942.

In retaliation, Warner-during his 1947 testmony before Congress, for making the 1942 Russian propaganda film Mission to Moscow – accused a number of studio employees of having ties to Communists.

* Robert Smith Walker ( born 1942 ), member of the Congress of the United States from Pennsylvania

The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States is an expression of loyalty to the federal flag and the republic of the United States of America, originally composed by Francis Bellamy in 1892 and formally adopted by Congress as the pledge in 1942.

The United States Congress officially recognized the Pledge for the first time, in the following form, on June 22, 1942:

The phrase " under God " was incorporated into the Pledge of Allegiance June 14, 1954, by a Joint Resolution of Congress amending § 7 of the Flag Code enacted in 1942.

Removal of the Bellamy salute occurred on December 22, 1942, when Congress amended the Flag Code language first passed into law on June 22, 1942.

Gandhi strongly pressured the All India Congress Committee to approve of an all-out campaign of civil disobedience, and the AICC approved the campaign on 7 August 1942.

Patel was arrested on 9 August and was imprisoned with the entire Congress Working Committee from 1942 to 1945 at the fort in Ahmednagar.