He had been a corps commander during the disastrous defeat and retreat of 1942 when the ill-prepared, ill-equipped British forces `` were outmaneuvered, outfought and outgeneraled ''.

A decade and a half later, the Polish anthropology student, Bronisław Malinowski ( 1884 – 1942 ), was beginning what he expected to be a brief period of fieldwork in the old model, collecting lists of cultural items, when the outbreak of the First World War stranded him in New Guinea.

The sound can be heard, for example, when Spike Jones sings " Der Fuehrer's Face " ( from the 1942 Disney animated film of the same name ), repeatedly lambasting Adolf Hitler with: " We'll Heil!

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.

FBI pressure on Chaplin grew after his 1942 campaign for a second European front in the war and reached a critical level in the late 1940s, when Congressional figures threatened to call him as a witness in hearings.

From 1942, the party was known as the Progressive Conservatives, until 2003, when the national party merged with the Canadian Alliance to form the Conservative Party of Canada.

The last mounted saber charge by Italian cavalry occurred on August 24, 1942 at Isbuscenski ( Russia ), when a squadron of the " Savoia Cavalry Regiment " regiment charged the " 812th Siberian Infantry Regiment ".

All British Army cavalry regiments had been mechanised since 1 March 1942 when the Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons ( Yeomanry ) was converted to a motorised role, following mounted service against the Vichy French in Syria the previous year.

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.

The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War.

The refusal to provide arms to the Jews, even when Rommel's forces were advancing through Egypt in June 1942 ( intent on occupying Palestine ) and the 1939 White Paper, led to the emergence of a Zionist leadership in Palestine that believed conflict with Britain was inevitable.

As a result, and because a British blockade initially hindered foreign relief efforts, a wide-scale famine resulted, when hundreds of thousands perished, especially in the winter of 1941 – 1942.

* In the 1942 film Casablanca, Captain Renault, a corrupt official played by Claude Rains recites the last two lines of the poem when talking to Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, referring to his power in Casablanca.

* Johnny Ford ( born August 1942 ), American political figure ; Democrat, later Republican ; became Alabama's first African-American mayor when elected by Tuskegee in 1972

* 1942 – World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.

The state was placed under military occupation until August 1942, when it was formally annexed by the Third Reich as part of the Gau Moselland.

In the final Wimsey story, the 1942 short story " Talboys ", Peter and Harriet are enjoying rural domestic bliss with their three sons when Bredon, their first-born, is accused of the theft of prize peaches from the neighbour's tree.

The only occasion when Sayers returned to Wimsey was the 1942 short story " Talboys ".

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.

" 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.

* 1942 – All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner are killed when it is struck by a U. S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California.

* Paramount sold three features – I Married a Witch, The Crystal Ball and Young and Willing – to United Artists ( along with five Harry Sherman-produced westerns and 13 Hopalong Cassidys ) beginning in 1942 when that studio needed product to release, and Paramount had a surplus.

The maroon background on the insignia was later used again by the Airborne Forces when they adopted the famous maroon beret in Summer 1942.

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.

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, Chaplin had a brief affair with Joan Barry, whom he was considering for a starring role in a proposed film.

Chris Sarandon ( born July 24, 1942 ) is an American actor who is best known for playing Prince Humperdinck in the film The Princess Bride, the vampire Jerry Dandridge in Fright Night and Detective Mike Norris in the first entry of the Child's Play series, and providing the speaking voice of Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

* Conspiracy ( 2001 film ), a dramatization of the Nazi 1942 Wannsee Conference concerning the " Final Solution "

The famous 1942 film Casablanca underlined the city's colonial status at the time — depicting it as the scene of a power struggle between competing European powers.

( 1942 ), The Way Ahead ( 1944 ) and Noël Coward and David Lean's celebrated naval film In Which We Serve in 1942, which won a special Academy Award.

These existed alongside more flamboyant films like Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ), A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) and A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), as well as Laurence Olivier's 1944 film Henry V, based on the Shakespearean history Henry V. The success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs allowed Disney to make more animated features like Pinocchio ( 1940 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), Dumbo ( 1941 ) and Bambi ( 1942 ).

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.

The classic film noirs The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key ( 1942 ) were based on novels by Hammett ; Cain's novels provided the basis for Double Indemnity ( 1944 ), Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ), and Slightly Scarlet ( 1956 ; adapted from Love's Lovely Counterfeit ).

During the classic era, his work, either as author or screenwriter, was the basis for seven films now widely regarded as film noirs, including three of the most famous: High Sierra ( 1941 ), This Gun for Hire ( 1942 ), and The Asphalt Jungle ( 1950 ).

* 1994 – Derek Jarman, British film director ( b. 1942 )

* 1942 – Margarethe von Trotta, German actress and film director

The film was Bogart's last major film playing a gangster ( his final gangster role was in The Big Shot in 1942 ).

Maureen O ' Hara, Irish Actress and famous beauty in the trailer for The Black Swan ( film ) | The Black Swan ( 1942 )

* 1942 – Stewart Raffill, American film director

* 1942 – Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.

Whale shot the film, called Personnel Placement in the Army, in February 1942.

Nominated for nine Academy Awards in 1942, the film won only for Best Screenplay, for Mankiewicz and Welles.

Martin Charles Scorsese (; born November 17, 1942 ) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian.

* 1942 – Peter Guber, American film producer

University of Cambridge experiments in 2002 and 2003 attempted to use machinima to re-create a scene from the 1942 live-action film Casablanca.