The final cavalry charge by British Empire forces occurred on 21 March 1942 when a 60 strong patrol of the Burma Frontier Force encountered Japanese infantry near Toungoo airfield in central Burma.

On January 20, 1942, Commander-in-Chief, United States Fleet ( Cominch ), sent a coded dispatch to Commander, Eastern Sea Frontier ( CESF ), requesting immediate consideration of the manning and fitting-out of " Queen " ships to be operated as an antisubmarine measure.

* The Second World War: Dyle, Defence of Escaut, Dunkirk 1940, Cagny, Mont Pincon, Quarry Hill, Estry, Heppen, Nederrijn, Venraij, Meijel, Roer, Rhineland, Reichswald, Cleve, Goch, Moyland, Hochwald, Rhine, Lingen, Uelzen, North-West Europe 1940 ' 44 – 45, Egyptian Frontier 1940, Sidi Barrani, Halfaya 1941, Tobruk 1941 ' 42, Msus, Knightsbridge, Defence of Alamein Line, Medenine, Mareth, Longstop Hill 1942, Sbiba, Steamroller Farm, Tunis, Hammam Lif, North Africa 1940 – 1943, Salerno, Battipaglia, Cappezano, Volturno Crossing, Monte Camino, Calabritto, Garigliano Crossing, Monte Ornito, Monte Piccolo, Capture of Perugia, Arezzo, Advance to Florence, Monte Domini, Catarelto Ridge, Argenta Gap, Italy 1943 – 1945

Sprague was assigned as Air Officer of Gulf Sea Frontier, Miami, Florida in June 1942.

Its success spawned a second hotel on what would become the Strip, the Hotel Last Frontier, in 1942.

Eddie Foy Jr. appeared as his father in several films — Frontier Marshal ( 1939 ), Lillian Russell ( 1940 ), Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ), and Wilson ( 1944 )— as well as a television version of The Seven Little Foys with Mickey Rooney ( 1964 ).

In November 1942, he became Commander, Thirteenth Naval District and Commander, Northwestern Sea Frontier to calm the public fear of invasion from the north.

Rocky Nelson was Founder and President of Arizona Airways from its founding in 1942 until its merger with Challenger and Monarch Airlines June 1, 1950 to form Frontier Airlines, headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

By 1942 more modern cartridges had all but eclipsed the. 44-40, but it regained some popularity in the 1950s and ' 60s when Colt began once again to manufacture the Single Action Army and Frontier.

: Otta, Norway 1940, Withdrawal to Escaut, Defence of Arras, French Frontier 1940, Ypres-Comines Canal, Dunkirk 1940, St. Valery-en-Caux, Normandy Landing, Tilly sur Seulles, Odon, Fontenay Le Pesnil, Caen, Bourguebus Ridge, Troarn, Mont Pincon, St Pierre La Vielle, Gheel, Nederrijn, Aam, Venraij, Rhineland, Schaddenhof, Brinkum, Bremen, North-West Europe 1940 and 1944 – 45, Jebel Defeis, Keren, Ad Teclescan, Abyssinia 1940 – 41, Gazala, Cauldron, Mersa Matruh, Defence of Alamein Line, El Alamein, Mareth, Wadi ZigZaou, Akarit, North Africa 1940 – 42, 1942 – 43 and 1943, Banana Ridge, Medjez Plain, Gueriat el Atach Ridge, Tunis, Djebel Bou Aoukaz 1943, North Africa 1943, Primasole Bridge, Landing in Sicily, Lentini, Sicily 1943, Minturno, Anzio, Campoleone, Rome, Monte Ceco, Italy 1943 – 44 and 43 – 45, Sittang 1942, Pegu 1942, Paungde, Yenangyaung 1942, North Arakan, Maungdaw, Defence of Sinzweya, Imphal, Bishenpur, Kanglantonbi, Kohima, Meiktila, Capture of Meiktila, Defence of Meiktila, Rangoon Road, Pyawbwe, Arakan beaches, Chindits 1944, Burma Campaign ( 1942 – 44 ).

It was subsequently rebuilt and renamed the " Hotel Last Frontier " in 1942.

* 1942: Bruce Hutchison, The Unknown Country and Edgar McInnes, The Unguarded Frontier

During World War II, Manekshaw saw action in Burma in the 1942 campaign on the Sittang River as a captain with the 4 / 12 Frontier Force Regiment, and had the rare distinction of being honoured for his bravery on the battle front itself.

On October 30, 1942, R. E. Griffith rebuilt on the site of a nightclub called Pair-O-Dice, that first opened in 1930, and renamed it Hotel Last Frontier.

* The Guides Cavalry ( 10th Queen Victoria's Own Frontier Force ) ( from 1942 to?

* 1942 – Barry Levinson, American producer and director

* 1942 – Daryl Dragon, American keyboardist ( Captain & Tennille )

* 1942 – George Jung, American convicted drug smuggler

* 1942 – Byard Lancaster, American saxophonist ( d. 2012 )

* 1942 – Tommie Agee, American baseball player ( d. 2001 )

* 1942 – Jack DeJohnette, American drummer, pianist, and composer ( Gateway and Trio Beyond )

* 2012 – Jamaa Fanaka, American director, producer, and screenwriter ( b. 1942 )

* 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 – World War II: the Battle of Guadalcanal begins – United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.

* 1942 – Tobin Bell, American actor

* 1942 – Garrison Keillor, American writer and radio host

* 1942 – B. J. Thomas, American singer

* 1942 – Jim Lonborg, American baseball player

* 1881 – Edward Siegler, American gymnast ( d. 1942 )

* 1942 – Larry Hartsell, American martial arts instructor and author ( d. 2007 )

* 1942 – Barbara George, American singer-songwriter ( d. 2006 )

* 1942 – Fred Thompson, American politician and actor

* 1942 – World War II: the Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.

* 1942 – Nathan Deal, American politician, 82nd Governor of Georgia

* 1942 – Leon Russell, American pianist and guitarist

* 1942 – Sterling Morrison, American singer and guitarist ( The Velvet Underground ) ( d. 1995 )

* 1942 – James Glennon, American scientist

These drugs were later renamed antibiotics by Selman Waksman, an American microbiologist, in 1942.

* 1942 – Steve Blass, American baseball player

* 1942 – Robert Christgau, American journalist and critic

Because New Criticism isolated the text and excluded historical and biographical contexts, critics argued as early as 1942 that Brooks ’ approach to criticism was flawed for being overly narrow and for " disabl any and all attempts to relate literary study to political, social, and cultural issues and debates " ( 1350 ).

* 1942, Lewis White Beck, " Nicolai Hartmann's Criticism of Kant's Theory of Knowledge ," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol.