This ship was originally named the USS Kearsarge, but was renamed in honor of the previous Hornet CV-8 ( famous for the Doolittle raid ), which was lost in October 1942.

In the summer of 1942, when Germany launched another offensive in the southern USSR against Stalingrad and the Caucasus, the Soviets again lost tremendous amounts of territory, only to counter-attack once more during winter.

In 1941 they were swept by the Boston Bruins, and in 1942 they lost a seven-game series to Toronto after winning the first three games.

The Russians, whose side lost, failed to keep up and despite newer models coming into service, I-16s were outfought by the improved Bf 109s in World War II, while remaining the most common Soviet front-line fighter into 1942.

* 1942 – The heavy cruiser is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed, along with which lost 375 men.

The previous two teams to do it, the 1934 and 1942 Chicago Bears, both lost those years ' NFL Championship Games.

*, a Gato-class submarine, in commission from 1942 until lost in 1944 during World War II

The Axis advance was stopped in 1942, after Japan lost a series of naval battles and European Axis troops were defeated in North Africa and, decisively, at Stalingrad.

As a result, Erhard lost his job in 1942 but continued to work on the subject by order of the " Reichsgruppe Industrie ".

*, was a heavy cruiser commissioned in 1937 and lost in the Battle of Savo Island in 1942

For many years, the original nitrate film negative was thought to have been lost in an Allied air raid in 1942 that destroyed a leading laboratory outside Paris.

He played alongside Bing Crosby in Holiday Inn ( 1942 ) and later Blue Skies ( 1946 ) but, in spite of the enormous financial success of both, was reportedly dissatisfied with roles where he lost the girl to Crosby.

LeMay was quite aware of the Japanese opinion of him: he once remarked that had the U. S. lost the war, he fully expected to be tried for war crimes, especially in view of Japanese executions of uniformed American flight crews during the 1942 Doolittle raid.

O ' Brien went on to do some special effects work, re-using one of the mattes from Son of Kong, on Orson Welles ' American classic Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) and George Pal's Oscar-nominated animated short Tulips Shall Grow ( 1942 ), as well as developing his own project, Gwangi, about cowboys who encounter a prehistoric animal in a " lost " valley, which he failed to sell to the studio.

In 1942 he lost his positions of authority outside the General Government after annoying Hitler with a series of speeches in Berlin, Vienna, Heidelberg, and Munich and also as part of a power struggle with Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger, the State Secretary for Security — head of the SS and the police in the General Government.

The Nazi Germans lost faith in the Vichy regime after Operation Torch, and — during Case Anton in November 1942 — German and Italian forces occupied Vichy France.

At the battle of El Alamein in 1942 he lost his right eye and as a result he wore a smoked-glass monocle over an artificial eye.

This junction was lost on 6 January 1942, but the withdrawal to Bataan had been successfully concluded.

* On 8 April 1942, the 57th Infantry Regiment and the 31st Infantry Regiment were lost near the Alangan River, and the 45th Infantry Regiment surrendered, 10 April 1942.

Later on in the war, Kunming was targeted by the Imperial Japanese Air Force during their bombing campaigns, and when the Burma Road was lost to the Japanese, the American Volunteer Group, known as the " Flying Tigers ", used Kunming as a base in 1941 and 1942 to fly in supplies over the Himalayas from British bases in India in defiance of Japanese assaults.

On 23 February 1942, with Malaya lost and the Allied position in Java and Sumatra precarious, ABDACOM was closed down and its headquarters in Java evacuated.

By the end of 1942, eight had been lost, and 17 more by the end of 1943.

In July 1942 the First Battle of El Alamein was lost by Rommel because he was suffering from the eternal curse of the desert war, long supply lines.

* 1942 – Malta received the George Cross for its gallantry.

Commander Alastair Denniston, was operational head of GC & CS from its formation from the Admiralty's Room 40 ( NID25 ) and the War Office's MI1b in 1919, until 1942.

In 1942 Beech won its first Army-Navy ‘ E ’ Award production award and became one of the elite five percent of war contracting firms in the country to win five straight awards for production efficiency, mostly for the production of the Beechcraft 18 which remains in widespread use worldwide.

Beginning with a Nintendo Entertainment System port of 1942 published in December 1985, the company started to venture into the market of home console video games, which became its main business segment a few years later.

In 1942, Raymond Lindeman wrote a landmark paper on the trophic dynamics of ecology, which was published posthumously after initially being rejected for its theoretical emphasis.

Following its defeat at the Battle of Gazala in June 1942, the British Eighth Army had retreated from the Gazala line to Mersa Matruh, roughly inside the Egyptian border.

Willys also followed the Ford pattern by stamping its name into some body parts, but stopped this in 1942.

* 1942 – World War II: the Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using only its jet engines for the first time.

By the winter of 1941 – 1942 just 39 percent of the fighter force was operational and possessed just 60 more combat aircraft than it did in June 1941 despite its increased commitments.

* 1942 – World War II: Nazi Germany completes its occupation of France.

* 1942 – World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.

Drilling of the first oil well began at Jebel Dukhan in October 1938 and, over a year later, the well struck oil in the Upper Jurassic limestone which, unlike the Bahraimi strike, was similar to Saudi Arabia ’ s Dammam field discovered three years before .< ref >" The Qatar Oil Discoveries " by Rasoul Sorkhabi < http :// www. geoexpro. com / history / qatardiscoveries ></ ref > Production was halted between 1942 and 1947 because of World War II and its aftermath.

Following the decisive victory in the Battle of Moscow in January 1942, the high command began to reintroduce Rifle Corps into its most experienced formations.

In 1942, an official SS Volunteer Committee was established in Finland to take care of the battalion's somewhat strained relations with its German superiors.

Although many film scholars would agree that its classic period had effectively ended by 1942, elements of the genre have persisted, or have been paid homage, in contemporary film.

* 1942 – The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.

* 1942 – World War II: In response to news of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn leads an uprising in the Ghetto of Lakhva, in present-day Belarus.

The initial purchaser had paid £ 5, 250 for it on its completion, and subsequent sales were for £ 861 in 1935, £ 265 in 1942, and was " bought in " at £ 252 in 1960 ( having failed to meet its reserve ), but when the same picture was auctioned at Christies in New York in May 1995, it sold for £ 1. 75 million.

During the 1939 – 1942 period, the UK depleted much of its gold stock in purchases of munitions and weaponry on a " cash-and-carry " basis from the U. S. and other nations.

( 1942 ): The vertebrate eye and its adaptive radiation Cranbook Institute of Science.

A member of Doriot's fascist Parti Populaire Français from age 20, Maurice Duverger completed his studies in from the Bordeaux Department of Law in 1942, before lecturing in law at Poitiers in 1942, and Bordeaux in 1943 ( where he would, in 1948, found the Institut d ' Études Politiques as its first director ).

Brazda was sent to Buchenwald in August 1942 and held there until its liberation by U. S. forces in 1945.

Chrysler was prolific in its production of war materiel from 1942 to 1945, and Dodge in particular was well known to both average citizens and thankful soldiers for their tough military-spec truck models and ambulances like the WC54.