These existed alongside more flamboyant films like Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ), A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) and A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), as well as Laurence Olivier's 1944 film Henry V, based on the Shakespearean history Henry V. The success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs allowed Disney to make more animated features like Pinocchio ( 1940 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), Dumbo ( 1941 ) and Bambi ( 1942 ).

Colonel Patton was given command of the 2nd Armored Brigade, US 2nd Armored Division in July 1940.

Known mainly by the pseudonym, Colonel Rémy, he returned to France in August 1940, not long after the surrender of France.

A unique US public housing initiative was the development of subsidized middle-class housing during the late New Deal ( 1940 – 42 ) under the auspices of the Mutual Ownership Defense Housing Division of the Federal Works Agency under the direction of Colonel Lawrence Westbrook.

Formed in Plymouth in late June 1940 following the Dunkirk evacuation, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel John Durnford-Slater, No. 3 Commando was the first British unit to use the title of " Commando ".

In October 1940, as part of a reorganisation of the Commando formations, the unit was amalgamated with No. 8 ( Guards ) Commando into a single special service battalion known as the 4th Special Service Battalion, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Laycock.

* Lieutenant Colonel John Durnford-Slater, DSO and Bar: July 1940 – August 1943 ;

Lieutenant Colonel C. P. D Legard and the Regimental Sergeant Major W. Morris held their first parade on 22 July 1940, at Weymouth Pavilion.

* Colonel Richard Francis Abel Smith ( 11 October 1933 – 23 December 2004 ); he married Marcia Kendrew ( born 27 March 1940 ) on 28 April 1960 ; they have one daughter and four grandchildren.

During the Second World War from 1940 to 1945 Addington House was the residence of the Cigna, Moravec, Strankmuller and Tauer families of the Czechoslovak Military Intelligence staff under Colonel František Moravec, who planned the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.

Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss ( also spelled Höß, sometimes spelled in English as Hoess ; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947 ) was an ( Lieutenant Colonel ), and from 4 May 1940 to November 1943 the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, where it is estimated that more than a million people were murdered.

* Heneage Michael Charles Finch, 9th Earl of Aylesford ( 31 October 1908 – 28 May 1940 ), killed in action like his father ; he married 18 April 1940 ( as her second husband ) Pamela Elizabeth Dugdale, née Coventry ( 16 October 1901 – 4 May 1990 ), elder daughter of the cricketer Colonel Hon.

Though he was hardly ever cast as the villain, notable exceptions were his roles as ' Old Man Clanton ' in the 1946 film My Darling Clementine opposite Henry Fonda, the 1962 Cinerama production How the West Was Won as the murderous Colonel Jeb Hawkins, and as Judge Roy Bean in The Westerner, for which he won his third best supporting actor Academy Award, in 1940.

In August 1940, the British set up Mission 101 led by Colonel Daniel Sandford, a close friend and advisor of Haile Selassie and who had encouraged him to return from Britain.

* The German Luftwaffes chief of intelligence, Colonel Josef " Beppo " Schmid, reports that the British Royal Air Force and French Air Force are " clearly inferior in strength and armament in comparison to the Luftwaffe ," that even an entry into World War II by the United States would not alone improve the status of Allied air power during 1940, and that British fighters stood little chance in combat with the German Messerschmitt Bf 110 twin-engine fighter.

( British efforts to get Turkey as an ally against Germany are a central element of Eric Ambler's classic spy thriller Journey Into Fear, published in 1940, in which a fictional head of the MAH, Colonel Haki, plays an important role.

He was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards ( 23 March 1940 ), before joining No. 8 ( Guards ) Commando with whom he sailed ( 31 January 1941 ) to the Middle East with Colonel Bob Laycock's Layforce, ( whose Commando officers included Evelyn Waugh, Randolph Churchill, Philip Dunne, Carol Mather, David Stirling and many distinguished others ).

On the basis of tests in Northern Ireland in August 1940, Group Captain A. H. Wann RAF and Colonel J. D.

In 1940 the British Minister of Transport, Lieutenant Colonel John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, put forward the idea that airgraphs be used to reduce both the bulk and weight of mail travelling between the Middle East Force ( MEF ) and the UK.

In late 1940 Lieutenant Colonel ( later Brigadier ) Dudley Clarke arrived in Cairo at the request of Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, General Sir Archibald Wavell.

Following Colonel Busch's suicide in August 1939, conservative forces reasserted themselves, took power, and propitiated the 1940 elections in which the tradiational ( oligarchic ) parties linked to the country's big mining interests ( known as " La Rosca ") triumphed at the polls with General Enrique Peñaranda.

Confusingly, the special NKVD rank system was left intact, so for example Captain of Militsiya / State Security was assigned the three-box insignia of an army Colonel ( in the Red Army, this patch was reassigned to Lieutenant Colonel in September 1939, but the NKVD did not alter their insignia ) and Major of Militsiya / State Security was mapped to one-romb insignia of Kombrig ( a brigade commander ) ( which was abolished for commanding officers of the Red Army in May 1940 ).

2nd Edition 1940 by Frank Schlesinger and Louise F. Jenkins.

* 1940 – Frank Wilson, American songwriter and producer ( d. 2012 )

* 1993 – Frank Zappa, American musician and composer ( b. 1940 )

* Frank Pick, Managing Director of the Underground Group from 1928 and Chief Executive of the London Passenger Transport Board from its creation in 1933 until 1940.

In 1940, under the pen-name " Cato " he and two other Beaverbrook journalists ( Frank Owen, editor of the Standard, and Peter Howard of the Daily Express ) published Guilty Men, a Left Book Club book attacking the appeasement policy of the Chamberlain government that became a run-away best-seller.

* 1940 – Barney Frank, American politician

* Some of Hollywood's most notable blockbuster films of the 1940s include: The Maltese Falcon directed by John Huston ( 1941 ), It's a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra ( 1946 ), Double Indemnity directed by Billy Wilder ( 1944 ), Meet Me in St. Louis directed by Vincente Minnelli ( 1944 ), Casablanca directed by Michael Curtiz ( 1942 ), Citizen Kane directed by Orson Welles ( 1941 )," The Great Dictator directed by Charlie Chaplin ( 1940 ).

* December 4 – Frank Zappa, American guitarist and composer ( b. 1940 )

Sport: In the first half of the twentieth century, before Major League Baseball was racially integrated, dark-skinned and dark-complexion players were nicknamed Nig ; examples are: Johnny Beazley ( 1941 – 49 ), Joe Berry ( 1921 – 22 ), Bobby Bragan ( 1940 – 48 ), Nig Clarke ( 1905 – 20 ), Nig Cuppy ( 1892 – 1901 ), Nig Fuller ( 1902 ), Johnny Grabowski ( 1923 – 31 ), Nig Lipscomb ( 1937 ), Charlie Niebergall ( 1921 – 24 ), Nig Perrine ( 1907 ), and Frank Smith ( 1904 – 15 ).

Fonda starred in The Return of Frank James ( 1940 ) with Gene Tierney.

* Gaslight ( 1940 film ), starring Diana Wynyard, Anton Walbrook, Frank Pettingell, based on the play

Louisiana Tech constructed the building in 1940 and named it after Frank Howard, the former Dean of Engineering at Louisiana Tech.

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Frank was a patron of General Government chess tournaments ( 1940 – 1944 ).

Friends John Baptist Hanten ( 1859 – 1940 ) and others believed to be Michael Ludwig, Frank Marx, Nicholas Haan, Joseph Stumpf, and Joseph J.

She met Paul Frank Pelosi ( b. April 15, 1940, in San Francisco ) while she was attending Trinity College.

Charles Frank " Chuck " Mangione (; born November 29, 1940 ) is an American flugelhorn player and composer who achieved international success in 1977 with his jazz-pop single, " Feels So Good.

" In late 1939 and early 1940, Hans Frank, the General Governor of occupied Poland, refused to accept the 30, 000 German and Austrian Roma which were to be deported.

Jackson was appointed Attorney General by Roosevelt in 1940, replacing Frank Murphy.

In 1940, Dorsey hired singer Frank Sinatra from bandleader Harry James.

Frank Sinatra made eighty recordings from 1940 to 1942 with the Dorsey band.

His biggest hit was " I'll Never Smile Again ", featuring Frank Sinatra on vocals, which was number one for twelve weeks on the Billboard pop singles chart in 1940.

In 1940, subordinates of his led by Frank Rowlett broke Japan's PURPLE cipher, thus disclosing Japanese diplomatic secrets before America's entrance into World War II.