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.

The Constitution stipulated that Australia was a constitutional monarchy, where the Head of State is the British ( or, since 1942, Australian ) monarch, who is represented at the federal level by a Governor-General, and at the state level by six Governors, one for each state.

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.

In December 1942, after a British blockade lasting one hundred and one days, Governor Pierre Nouailhetas surrendered French Somaliland.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Mountbatten, who was promoted to the acting rank of vice-admiral in March 1942, was in large part responsible for the planning and organisation of The Raid at St. Nazaire in mid 1942, an operation resulting in the disuse of one of the most heavily defended docks in Nazi-occupied France until well after war's end, the ramifications of which greatly contributed to allied supremacy in the Battle of the Atlantic.

Bogart would star in 36 films between 1934 and 1942 including John Huston's The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), one of the first films now considered a classic film noir.

Felix Hausdorff ( November 8, 1868 – January 26, 1942 ) was a German mathematician who is considered to be one of the founders of modern topology and who contributed significantly to set theory, descriptive set theory, measure theory, function theory, and functional analysis.

* 1942 – The Battle of Los Angeles, one of the largest documented UFO sightings in history ; the event lasted into the early hours of February 25, 1942.

* 1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the United States mainland.

* Ice Capades of 1943 ( 1942 )-Styne contributed one song

Cagney's Oscar-winning role in Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ) allowed him to sing and dance, and he considered it to be one of his finest moments.

In 1942, Steiner won his second Oscar for Now, Voyager, and was also nominated for Casablanca, which remains one of his most famous scores.

It also extended trade regulation of the 1940 German – Soviet Commercial Agreement until August 1, 1942, increased deliveries above the levels of year one of that agreement, settled trading rights in the Baltics and Bessarabia, calculated the compensation for German property interests in the Baltic States now occupied by the Soviets and other issues.

In the last century the most severe one occurred in 1942.

A team of chemists led by Louis Fieser at Harvard University was the first one to develop synthetic napalm, during 1942 for the U. S. Armed Forces.

* 1942 – World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U. S. aircraft carrier, Hornet, is sunk and another aircraft carrier, Enterprise, is heavily damaged.

The New Guinea campaign ( 1942 – 1945 ) was one of the major military campaigns of World War II.

On March 14, 1942, the first patient was treated for streptococcal septicemia with US-made penicillin produced by Merck & Co. Half of the total supply produced at the time was used on that one patient.

( 7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942 ) was a high-ranking German Nazi official during World War II, and one of the main architects of the Holocaust.

He won two Academy Awards for his screenplays — one before his imprisonment and blacklisting ( for Woman of the Year in 1942 ), and one after ( for M * A * S * H in 1970 ).

A resistance movement called Otechestven front ( Fatherland front, Bulgarian: Отечествен фронт ) was set up in August 1942 by the Communist Party, the Zveno movement and a number of other parties to oppose the elected government, after a number of Allied victories indicated that the Axis might lose the War.

In September 1942, the party organized a popular front organization, the National Liberation Movement ( NLM ), from a number of resistance groups, including several that were strongly anticommunist.

With the intention of organizing a partisan resistance, they called a general conference in Pezë on 16 September 1942 where the Albanian National Liberation Front was set up.

A nationalist resistance to the Italian occupiers emerged in November 1942.

* 1891 – August Froehlich, German Roman Catholic priest, member of the resistance against Nazism and martyr ( d. 1942 )

* 1942 – Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the Nazis.

Clemence Dane's series of radio plays, The Saviours ( 1942 ), used a historical Arthur to embody the spirit of heroic resistance against desperate odds, and Robert Sherriff's play The Long Sunset ( 1955 ) saw Arthur rallying Romano-British resistance against the Germanic invaders.

Munich was the base of the White Rose, a student resistance movement from June 1942 to February 1943.

* 1942 – World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyst generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.

In March 1942, further sweeps against Czech cultural and patriotic organisations, military, and intelligentsia resulted in the practical paralysis of Czech resistance.

** Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino politician and resistance leader ( d. 1942 )

In 1942, French resistance numbered about 10, 000, and 1943, the Free French numbered about 70, 000.

In 1942 he joined the Polish resistance and served in the Armia Krajowa.

Jean Moulin, the deputy of Charles de Gaulle, the leader of the Free France resistance movement, was parachuted into Eygalières, in the Bouches-du-Rhône on 2 January 1942 to unite the diverse resistance movements in all of France against the Germans.

The final remnants of Italian guerilla movement discontinued all resistance in British Somaliland by the summer of 1942.

* 1942 — Max Delbruck and Salvador Luria demonstrated that bacterial resistance to virus infection is caused by random mutation and not adaptive change.

The mass executions of Russians, Ukrainians, Jews and others, as well as what he believed was an already apparent deficiency in military leadership ( Hitler had assumed the role of supreme commander in late 1941 after firing Hoepner and others ), finally convinced Stauffenberg in 1942 to join with resistance groups within the Wehrmacht, the only force that had a chance to overcome Hitler's Gestapo, SD, and SS.

During 1942, Oster and Tresckow nevertheless succeeded in rebuilding an effective resistance network.

In the midst of the 1942 deportations, some Jews in Tarnów organized a Jewish resistance movement.

De Gaulle's influence grew in France, and by 1942 one resistance leader called him " the only possible leader for the France that fights ".

A militant Jewish Zionist resistance organisation, the Jewish Army ( Armée Juive ), was founded in 1942 by Abraham Polonski, Lucien Lublin, David Knut, and their wives.

The novel Le Silence de la Mer was written in 1942 by Jean Bruller, and quickly became a symbol of mental resistance through its story of how an old man and his niece do not speak to the German officer occupying their house.