In 1942 she was named President-elect of The Herdwick Sheepbreeders ’ Association, the first time a woman had ever been elected to that office, but died before taking office.

In 1942 she joined the United States Army Air Forces and worked in the Army Air Forces photointelligence group.

According to her bio in Playbill ( 1942 ), Paxinou was disowned by her family after she decided to seek a permanent stage career.

The S-26 did not sink in a test dive ; she instead sank in a collision with a patrol combatant, PC-460, in January 1942.

In 1942, at the age of twelve, she played a lead in Don't Feed the Animals, a play produced by the East Falls Old Academy Players.

Soon after her arrival in Los Angeles, Gardner met fellow MGM contract player Mickey Rooney ; they married on January 10, 1942, in Ballard, California ; she was 19 years old and he was 21.

Although she moved from Germany to the Netherlands to avoid Nazi persecution, in 1942 she was arrested and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she died in the gas chamber.

The position of the Roman Catholic Church is that Stein also died because of the Dutch episcopacy's public condemnation of Nazi racism in 1942 ; in other words, that she died to uphold the moral position of the Church, and is thus a true martyr.

The film gave Lombard's career a boost and she followed its success with what proved to be her last film, and one of her most successful, To Be or Not to Be ( 1942 ).

Even though she had already worked in the movies ( she had sung briefly in the 1942 Abbott and Costello film Ride ' Em Cowboy ), she was " delighted " when Norman Granz negotiated the role for her, and, " at the time .... considered her role in the Warner Brothers movie the biggest thing ever to have happened to her.

Following her retirement in 1942, she married Martin Arrougé ( March 23, 1914 – August 8, 1999 ), a former ski instructor twelve years her junior.

Further highlights of this period included Tom, Dick, and Harry, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men ; I'll Be Seeing You, with Joseph Cotten ; La Cava's 5th Avenue Girl ( 1939 ), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family ; and especially the sharp and highly successful comedies: Bachelor Mother ( 1939 ), with David Niven, in which she played Polly Parrish, a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby ; and Billy Wilder's first Hollywood feature film: The Major and the Minor ( 1942 ), in which she played a woman who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period.

* Rogers was the heroine of a novel, Ginger Rogers and the Riddle of the Scarlet Cloak ( 1942, by Lela E. Rogers ), in which " the heroine has the same name and appearance as the famous actress but has no connection ... it is as though the famous actress has stepped into an alternate reality in which she is an ordinary person.

From 1942 to 1974 she was the museum's president and chairman after which she functioned as honorary chairman until her death in 1986.

The first came in 1942, when she improved the world mark in the 80 m hurdles.

Etty Hillesum was interned in this camp from 30 July 1942 until 7 September 1943, when she and her family were put on a train to Auschwitz.

In the spring of 1942 Operation Reinhard began in Lublin.

( Churchill sent a telegram to Alexander on 23 September 1942 which began, " We are in your hands and of course a victorious battle makes amends for much delay.

American biological weapon development began in 1942.

For example, during the 872-day Siege of Leningrad, reports of cannibalism began to appear in the winter of 1941 – 1942, after all birds, rats and pets were eaten by survivors.

After 1942, Axis forces began to falter.

They began dating and they married in the spring of 1942.

Filming at the Babelsberg Studios near Berlin began 18 months later in April 1942 and lasted into summer.

In 1942 the French composer and theoretician Pierre Schaeffer, began his exploration of radiophony when he joined Jacques Copeau and his pupils in the foundation of the Studio d ' Essai de la Radiodiffusion Nationale.

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.

Trick-or-treating spread from the western United States eastward, stalled by sugar rationing that began in April 1942 during World War II and did not end until June 1947.

The battle began on August 23, 1942, and on the same day, the city suffered heavy aerial bombardment that reduced most of it to rubble.

By the early 1940s, the British film industry began to combine documentary techniques with fictional stories in films like Noël Coward's In Which We Serve ( 1942 ), Millions Like Us ( 1943 ) and The Way Ahead ( 1944 ).

The World War II era also brought on rising production costs that resulted in a reduced number of elaborate gags and outdoor sequences, Del Lord's stock and trade ; as such, the quality of the teams ' films ( particularly those directed by Lord ) began to slip after 1942.

The first successful launch of a V-2 was on October 3, 1942 and began operation on September 6, 1944 against Paris, followed by an attack on London two days later.

The deportation of the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto began on 22 July 1942, which was the 9th of Av, Tisha B ' Av, according to the Jewish calendar: " According to the SS Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop report, a total of approximately 310, 000 Jews were transported in freight trains from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka during the period from 22 July to 3 October 1942.

Franz Stangl restored order in the camp, and the transports of Warsaw and Radom Jews began to arrive again on September 3, 1942.

Starting in January 1942, the Navy began a very intense and difficult training program for electronic maintenance technicians.

In 1942, having moved to the United States with his new wife Netta Patmore, he began to write biographies.

Schlesinger began to phase in the production of color Looney Tunes with the 1942 cartoon The Hep Cat.

But with a mixed command he was reorganizing and training up on the fly ( Many Australian units were drilling with wooden mockups of rifles in August 1942 ) before MacArthur's people could set up his planned defensive bases on the north coast of eastern Papua, the Japanese Army had moved in and taken both north-coast villages he'd targeted for bases as reinforcements and war materials finally began to trickle in from the States in July — Buna and Gona — several weeks before the forces and transports his staff was organizing could have reached them in strength — at a time when Japan's Navy and Air forces were dominant every where they chose to go.

Allied concern grew large when, in early July 1942, the IJN began constructing a large airfield at Lunga Point on nearby Guadalcanal — from such a base Japanese long range bombers would threaten the sea lines of communication from the West Coast of the Americas to the populous East Coast of Australia.

Practical development began in earnest in 1942 when these efforts were transferred to the authority of the U. S. Army and became the Manhattan Project.

David Astor was looking for a provocative contributor for The Observer and invited Orwell to write for him — the first article appearing in March 1942.

Archie Comics is also the title of the company's longest-running publication, the first issue appearing with a cover date of Winter 1942.

Barrymore collapsed while appearing on Rudy Vallee's radio show and died in his hospital room, May 29, 1942.

The 1942 Ernst Lubitsch comedy To Be or Not to Be confuses the audience in the opening scenes with a play about Adolf Hitler appearing to be taking place within the actual plot of the film.

He began appearing in motion pictures in a comedy series pairing him with silent film legend Buster Keaton and continuing with The Wet Parade ( 1932 ), Broadway to Hollywood ( 1933 ), The Man Who Came to Dinner ( 1942, playing " Banjo ", a character based on Harpo Marx ), Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ), Billy Rose's Jumbo ( 1962, based on the 1935 musical ) and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ).

She became the singer / yodeler in Dude Martin's Roundup Gang in 1942, appearing on Bay Area radio stations.

She toured the US from January 1942 to September 1943 ( appearing before 250, 000 troops on the Pacific Coast leg of her tour alone ) and it is said that she sold more war bonds than any other star.

He served in the Royal Artillery from March 1940 to June 1942 but quickly returned to acting after discharge, appearing with Noël Coward in This Happy Breed and Present Laughter and later as Charles Condomine in Blithe Spirit, which he later named in Who's Who in the Theatre as one of his two favourite parts along with the title role in André Obey's Noah.

In 1942, Schlesinger began producing Looney Tunes in color as well, and the two series became virtually indistinguishable except by their theme music and opening titles – in addition, characters once exclusive to one series began regularly appearing in the other as well.

After appearing in Tarzan's New York Adventure ( 1942 ), O ' Sullivan asked MGM to release her from her contract so she could care for her husband who had just left the Navy with typhoid.

In 1883, Leno met Sarah Lydia Reynolds ( 1866 – 1942 ), a young dancer and comedy singer from Birmingham, while both were appearing at King Ohmy's Circus of Varieties, Rochdale.

When forces of the German Sixth Army launched their attack against the city centre of Stalingrad on 13 September 1942, Mamayev Kurgan ( appearing in military maps as " Height 102. 0 ") saw particularly fierce fighting between the German attackers and the defending soldiers of the Soviet 62nd Army.

From 1942 to 1945 he was Professor of Byzantine Art and History at Istanbul University, in Turkey, where he began the research on the Crusades which would lead to his best known work, the History of the Crusades ( three volumes appearing in 1951, 1952, and 1954 ).

His early work was uncredited or as Byron Barr ( not to be confused with another actor with the same name, Byron Barr ), but after appearing in the 1942 film The Gay Sisters as a character named " Gig Young ", the studio decided that he should adopt this name professionally.

He was a shortstop and third baseman during a ten-year Major League playing career, appearing in 1, 270 games played in 1942 and from 1946-1954 for three different teams.

Tom and Jerry began appearing in comic books in 1942, as one of the features in Our Gang Comics.

It was rejected several times before being accepted by Super Science Stories, appearing in the May 1942 issue under the pseudonym H. B. Ogden.

This large, substantial publication began in 1939 and was issued annually until 1942, then more sporadically in later years, appearing again in 1944, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1952 and 1954.

Because of the shortage of major league players during the Second World War, Sewell served as a player-manager during the 1942 season, appearing in six games.

First appearing in 1942, State Route 778 was designated along the short alignment that it currently occupies between State Route 101 and State Route 19.

The index underwent two changes, appearing in its final form in 1942.

741 were built in the period late 1942 – 1945 with a further 52 appearing between 1945 and 1948.

In 1942, she signed a contract with Warner Bros., and started appearing in various films.

" She then began appearing frequently in films such as Broadway Melody of 1936 ( 1935 ), Born to Dance ( 1936 ) and Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ) with James Cagney, in which ( portraying Nora Bayes ) she performed the popular song " Over There.