The CJCS ordered for 1942 – 43 Pacific objectives: that Guadalcanal would be carried out in conjunction with an Allied offensive in New Guinea under Douglas MacArthur, to capture the Admiralty Islands and the Bismarck Archipelago, including the major Japanese base at Rabaul.

The campaigns of August 1942 to early 1944 had driven Japanese forces from many of their island bases in the south and central Pacific Ocean, while isolating many of their other bases ( most notably in the Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Admiralty Islands, New Guinea, Marshall Islands, and Wake Island ), and in June 1944, a series of American amphibious landings supported by the US 5th Fleet's Fast Carrier Task Force captured most of the Mariana Islands ( bypassing Rota ).

In the spring of 1942, the Admiralty appealed for postcards or family photographs taken on the Continent for possible war use.

He was Director of Operational Research with the Admiralty from 1942 to 1945, and his work improved the survival odds of convoys, presented counter-intuitive but correct recommendations for the armour-plating of aircraft and achieved many other successes.

The Admiralty started to plan Operation Pedestal in the early weeks of July 1942, and it was soon recognized that this was to be the main effort to relieve Malta, and would employ the largest escort force yet deployed for a single convoy, including two battleships and three aircraft carriers.

Through the Admiralty described the idea of a 35: 100 tonnage ratio between London and Berlin as “ the highest that we could accept for any European power ”, it advised the government that the earliest Germany could build a Navy to that size was 1942, and that though they would prefer a smaller tonnage ratio than 35: 100, a 35: 100 ratio was nonetheless acceptable.

At a Cabinet meeting on May 3, 1939, the First Lord of Admiralty, Lord Stanhope stated that " at the present time Germany was building ships as fast as she could but that she would not be able to exceed the 35 per cent ratio before 1942 or 1943 ".

In October 1940 he became Director of the Local Division at the Admiralty and in April 1942 he assumed command of.

Admiralty surveyors first started preliminary surveys of land near Helston in 1942.

The Boyd Zoo site was later built on as a temporary hospital for American Marines in 1942, before being converted into Manukau Intermediate School ( now renamed to Royal Oak Intermediate School ).

The automobile maintenance unit, or motor pool, came into existence in 1942 and has been responsible for centralized maintenance and management of state-owned transportation since that time.

In spring of 1942 Eileen changed jobs to work at the Ministry of Food and Orwell's mother and sister Avril took war work in London and came to stay with the Orwells.

This incident led to German Admiral Dönitz issuing the Triton Null signal on 17 September 1942, which came to be known as the " Laconia Order "; the signal forbade submarine commanders from rescuing survivors from torpedoed ships.

The original cyanoacrylates ( the chemical name for the glue ) were discovered in 1942 in a search for materials to make clear plastic gun sights for the war, when a team of scientists headed by Harry Wesley Coover Jr stumbled upon a formulation that stuck to everything that it came in contact with.

In 1942, when the film came out, Roosevelt ordered it rushed to theaters.

But the decision to use Old Norse names came to have far-reaching consequences in the composition of The Lord of the Rings ; in 1942, Tolkien decided that the work was to be a purported translation from the fictional language of Westron, and in the English translation Old Norse names were taken to represent names in the language of Dale.

35 % of British cordite produced between 1942 and 1945 came from Ardeer and these agency factories.

Groves therefore waited until his promotion came through on 23 September 1942 before assuming his new command.

In 1942, building on the work of Charles Knight, R. A. Houk developed what came to be dubbed the Ur-Shrew theory.

In the summer of 1942 Gollancz came to realise that he and the rest of the world had been seriously underestimating the horrific extent of the Nazi persecution of the Jews.

Strauss's final opera, Capriccio ( 1942 ), had a libretto by Clemens Krauss, although the genesis for it came from Stefan Zweig and Joseph Gregor.

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

January 1942 came, however, and the trial did not take place.

Measurable relief came late when the Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant was established in 1942.

: Auxiliary Field 8 is named Baldsiefen Field for 2nd Lt. Richard Edward Baldsiefen, a gunnery instructor at Eglin, killed 4 March 1942 along with Lt. John W. Smith, in the crash of AT-6A-NA Texan, 41-528, which came down at Auxiliary Field 4.

In October 1942, the US Army and “ Dogs for Defense ” came to San Carlos.

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 ).

As of 1942, Delp met regularly with the clandestine group around Helmuth James Graf von Moltke to develop a model for a new social order after the Third Reich came to an end.

Meanwhile, Tex Avery came to MGM in 1942 and revitalized their cartoon studio with the same spark that had infused the Warner animators.

After receiving critical acclaim for her starring role in the 1942 Damon Runyon film The Big Street ( with Henry Fonda ), Ball came to the attention of MGM, which bought out her contract.

She came down with polio ( misdiagnosed at first as spinal meningitis ) in 1942, and Nichols quit a gig playing with Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra and left the music business to work in the wartime shipyards.

In September 1942, when Erwin Rommel was recuperating in Germany from health problems, he suggested Guderian to OKW as the only one who could replace him temporarily in Africa, the response came in the same night: " Guderian is not accepted ".

The turning point in the siege came in August 1942, when the British sent a very heavily defended convoy codenamed Operation Pedestal.

In early 1942, Singapore was critically unprepared for the assault that came.

His extended trips and inspection tours were to the United Kingdom in April 1941 and again in May 1942 ; the South Pacific in September 1942, North Africa and China in January – February 1943 ; the Middle East and Italy ( where his party came under artillery fire ) in November – December 1943 ; London and Normandy accompanying Marshall in June 1944 ; Germany and Italy in April – May 1945 ; the Western Pacific in June 1945 ; and Potsdam in July 1945.

The latter now furnishes the area with electricity distributed from a modern sub-station at Manchester Depot which was put into operation February 19, 1930 and was improved in January 1942 by the installation of larger transformers.

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.

After graduating in 1942, Brubeck was drafted into the army and served overseas in George Patton's Third Army.

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

By July 1942, the British and Indian forces in Burma had completed their fighting retreat back into India, and Alexander, having yet again been mentioned in despatches for his Burma service, was recalled to the United Kingdom.

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

On 7 August 1942, a German Focke-Wulf Fw 200 " Condor ", probably on a mission to bomb the station, smashed into the nearby mountainside of Danielsenkrateret in fog, killing all 9 crewmembers.

During 1942, Goebbels continued to press for the " final solution to the Jewish question " to be carried forward as quickly as possible now that Germany had occupied a huge swathe of Soviet territory into which all the Jews of German-controlled Europe could be deported.

* 1942 – Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the " Secret Annexe " above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.

* 1942 – World War II: Allied forces successfully halt the final Axis advance into Egypt.

* 1942 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into the Soviet Union.

He first gained worldwide fame in the Orson Welles films Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), The Magnificent Ambersons ( 1942 ), and Journey into Fear ( 1943 ), for which Cotten was also credited with the screenplay.

In the winter and spring of 1942 following American entry into war, all of the Latin American states except for Argentina and Chile under American pressure declared war on Germany.

The name BM-13 was only allowed into secret documents in 1942, and remained classified until after the war.

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

However, in 1942, with the entry of Japan into the Second World War, the island gained a strategic importance in the Indian Ocean and thus the British government hastily built a new airport in the south of the island at Plaisance.

Unarmed dagger defenses identical to those found in the manual of Fiore dei Liberi and the Codex Wallerstein were integrated into the U. S. Army's training manuals in 1942

* 1942 – World War II: in the United States, a bill creating the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps ( WAAC ) is signed into law.

* 1942 – The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.

This alternative tradition survived into the Renaissance, and still figures in some modern depictions, such as Steele Savage's illustrations for Edith Hamilton's Mythology ( 1942 ).

" The production of napalm was first entrusted to Nuodex Products, and by the middle of April 1942 they had developed a brown, dry powder that was not sticky by itself, but when mixed with gasoline turned into an extremely sticky and flammable substance.