From 1942 to 1945, the US Army operated Camp Maxey, north of Paris.

* Land of Unreason ( 1942 ) ( with Fletcher Pratt )-best of the non-series de Camp / Pratt collaborations

Fort Rucker ( situated on of sub-marginal farmland, and formerly a wildlife refuge ) was opened the 1st of May in 1942 as " Camp Rucker ", and had quarters for 3, 280 Officers and 39, 461 Enlisted Personnel.

The 81st Division ( Wild Cat ) was the first unit activated at Camp Rucker on June 15, 1942.

Since the establishment of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in 1942, Oceanside has been home to U. S. armed forces personnel, and the wartime industry of WWII and the 1950s had an ammunition manufacturing facility in the city.

Although the construction of Camp Cooke continued well into 1942, troop training did not wait.

Beale AFB was established in 1942 as Camp Beale and is named for Edward Fitzgerald Beale ( 1822 – 1893 ), an American Navy Lieutenant and a Brigadier General in the California Militia who was an explorer and frontiersman in California.

* Camp Beale ( United States Army ), 1 October 1942

With the construction of Camp Gordon in 1942, Grovetown experienced rapid growth ; no longer the small agricultural town.

On July 27, 1942, shortly after the Lordsburg Internment Camp was opened, Private First Class Clarence Burleson, a sentry at the facility, allegedly shot two Japanese American internees under questionable circumstances.

Opened in 1942 to serve African Americans serving at Camp Shelby and now on the National Registry of Historic Places.

* Camp Endicott ( 1942 )

Camp Crossville, a site just east of Pleasant Hill, was used as a prisoner of war camp during World War II, housing German and Italian officers from November 1942 until the end of the war.

Until the 1940s Killeen remained a relatively small and isolated farm trade center, but this changed drastically after 1942, when Camp Hood ( re-commissioned as Fort Hood in 1950 ) was created as a military training post to meet the demands of the Second World War.

Kearns came into existence 1 May 1942 as a World War II United States Army Air Force training facility known as Kearns Army Air Base ( also known as Kearns Center ; redesignated: Camp Kearns, 1 January 1944 ).

* Choiseul Camp, a French concentration camp in the commune of Châteaubriant in Brittany, open from 1941 to 1942

In 1942, Copperas Cove received new life when the US government located Camp Hood next to the struggling community.

At the end of 1942 there were about 45, 000 troops living and training at Camp Hood.

The 9th Armored Division was organized here in July 1942 and after its deployment, Camp Funston was used as a German prisoner of war camp.

They then moved to Camp McCoy at Sparta, Wisconsin on 27 November 1942.

* Joseph Henry Pendleton ( 1860 – 1942 ), American Marine Corps general, eponym of Camp Pendleton

The base headquarters was established on November 4, 1942 and the first landing occurred in late November when a Major Micheal Carmichael, flying from Camp Kearny, was forced to make an emergency landing among the construction equipment.

During the World War II, Camp O ' Donnell in Capas became the terminal point of the infamous " Bataan Death March ", involving Filipino and American soldiers who surrendered in Bataan on April 9, 1942.

* Camp Springs Air Base, established 5 September 1942

Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock ( born 28 March 1942 ) is a British Labour Party politician.

Gordon married second husband, writer Garson Kanin, who was 16 years her junior, in 1942.

* June 13 – Lady Lucy Duff Gordon, English fashion designer ( d. 1942 )

* 1942: Reap the Wild Wind-Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings and William L. Pereira

* George Stuart Gordon ( 1881 – 1942 ), British academic and professor of poetry

* George Gordon ( Canadian politician ) ( 1865 – 1942 ), senator from Ontario

The Gildersleeve character, played by Harold Peary, became series broadcasting's first successful spin-off hit ; that plus the onset of World War II ( which cost Fibber McGee & Molly their Mayor LaTrivia, when Gale Gordon went into the Coast Guard in early 1942, and " The Old Timer " Bill Thompson was drafted almost a year later ) nabbed nearly every other remaining male voice.

Nicholas John " Nick " Tate ( born 18 June 1942 ) is an Australian actor best known for his role as Eagle pilot Alan Carter in both seasons of the 1970s science fiction television series Space: 1999, as well as for playing the role of Gordon Hamilton's errant brother James in the 1980s soap opera Sons and Daughters.

He was baptised in the Private Chapel at Windsor Castle on 22 February 1942 by Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury.

During and after the war, he also wrote several novels under his own name — East of Farewell ( 1942 ), Limit of Darkness ( 1944 ), Stranger in Town ( 1947 ), Bimini Run ( 1949 ) ( with a hero named " Hank Sturgis "), and The Violent Ones ( 1950 ) — and, more famously, several spy and hardboiled novels under an array of pseudonyms, including Robert Dietrich, Gordon Davis and David St. John.

*" I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo " ( 1942 ) w. Mack Gordon ( 1942 ) for Orchestra Wives

* " At Last " ( 1942 ) w. Mack Gordon for Sun Valley Serenade

* " I Had the Craziest Dream " ( 1942 ) w. Mack Gordon for Springtime in the Rockies

* " People Like You and Me " ( 1942 ) w. Mack Gordon for Orchestra Wives

* " Serenade In Blue " ( 1942 ) w. Mack Gordon for Orchestra Wives

* " That's Sabotage " ( 1942 ) w. Mack Gordon for Orchestra Wives

* " There Will Never Be Another You " ( 1942 ) w. Mack Gordon for Iceland ( 1942 version: ; 1966 version: )

* Jamaa Fanaka, African-American filmmaker ( born Walter Gordon in 1942 ).

Starting at age 17, Darnell dated her publicity agent Alan Gordon, whom she allegedly married in a double wedding with Lana Turner and Joseph Stephen Crane on July 17, 1942.

In 1942 – 43, she played Olga in Chekhov's Three Sisters, in a production which also featured Katharine Cornell, Ruth Gordon, Edmund Gwenn, Dennis King, and Alexander Knox.

However, Hepburn, while resigning as Premier, insisted on remaining as party leader, and simply appointed his ally, Gordon Daniel Conant as the new Premier of Ontario on October 21, 1942.