Early in 1942, Hellman accompanied the production to Washington, D. C., for a benefit performance where she spoke with President Roosevelt.

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

In late 1942 after several band members had left the group, and as World War II raged, Wills joined the Army, but received a medical discharge in 1943.

He held 42 patents and received numerous awards, including the first Institute of Radio Engineers now IEEE Medal of Honor, the French Legion of Honor, the 1941 Franklin Medal and the 1942 Edison Medal.

He received in 1942 the AIEEs Edison Medal " for distinguished contributions to the art of electric communication, notably the regenerative circuit, the superheterodyne, and frequency modulation ".

He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director in 1942 for Sergeant York, but he received his only Oscar in 1975 as an Honorary Award from the Academy.

In 1942, the team of scientists Leonid Shvarts, Moisei Komissarchik and engineer Yakov Shor received the Stalin prize for the development of the BM-8-48.

He graduated with a BA in 1939, and received a Bachelor of Sacred Theology in 1942.

Much earlier, in 1942, he had received the first honorary degree of Doctor of Laws of Melbourne University.

The most celebrated invention of frequency hopping was that of actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil, who in 1942 received for their " Secret Communications System ".

On August 1, 1942, Lieutenants Nemesio Aguirre, Fernández Bakaicoa and Juanna received a Basque-coded message from San Diego for Admiral Chester Nimitz warning him of the upcoming Operation Apple to remove the Japanese from the Solomon Islands.

During his time in Gannan, from 1940 he implemented a " public information desk " where ordinary people could visit him if they had problems, and according to records, Chiang Ching-kuo received a total of 1, 023 people during such sessions in 1942.

As one of MGM's major stars of the 1940s, Garson received seven Academy Award nominations, winning the Best Actress award for Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ).

Even though she had not made a picture in five years, Arthur accepted the part at the request of George Stevens with whom she had worked in two earlier films, The Talk of the Town ( 1942 ) and The More the Merrier ( 1943 ) for which she received her only Oscar nomination.

* United States Coast Guard Douglas Albert Munro ( October 11, 1919 – September 27, 1942 ) is the only member of the United States Coast Guard to have received the Medal of Honor, the U. S. military's highest decoration.

In 1942 one resistance leader claimed that the movement received support from four groups: The " lower middle " and " middle middle " classes, university professors and students, all of the working class, and a large majority of the peasants.

Sydnor pointed out that Hitler had received an SS report in November 1942 which contained a mention of 363, 211 Russian Jews executed by the Einsatzgruppen between August – November 1942.

* John J. McKeithen, governor of Louisiana ( 1964 – 1972 ); Louisiana Public Service Commissioner ( 1955 – 1964 ); state representative ( 1948 – 1952 ); U. S. Army combat officer ( 1942 – 1945 ) having received two Bronze Stars in the battles of Okinawa and Iwo Jima

In recognition of its production record, the arsenal received the Army-Navy ‘ E ’ Award four times, the first on October 31, 1942.

He received his first star in December 1942, and became chief of staff of the Twelfth Air Force in North Africa under General James H. Doolittle.

The first inmate was received on April 27, 1942, and the last inmate departed on September 4, 1942.

* John J. McKeithen, governor of Louisiana ( 1964 – 1972 ); Louisiana Public Service Commissioner ( 1955 – 1964 ); state representative ( 1948 – 1952 ); U. S. Army combat officer ( 1942 – 1945 ) having received two Bronze Stars in the battles of Okinawa and Iwo Jima

The Columbus flying school received its first aircraft, nine Beech AT-10s and twenty-one AT-8s in early 1942.

In 1942, it became the St Anne's Society, and received a university charter to be founded as a women-only college in 1952.

Gary Cooper and Joan Fontaine holding their Oscars at the Academy Awards, 1942

( 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.

Prelude to War won the 1942 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Bush decided to join the US Navy, so after graduating from Phillips Academy earlier in 1942, he became a naval aviator at the age of 18.

In 1975, Hawks was awarded an Honorary Academy Award as " a master American filmmaker whose creative efforts hold a distinguished place in world cinema " and, in 1942, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for Sergeant York.

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

Steiner composed hundreds of film scores, including The Informer ( 1935 ), Now, Voyager ( 1942 ), and Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), which won him Academy Awards.

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 ).

# Prelude to War ( 1942 ) ( 51: 35 ) ( Academy award as Documentary Feature ) – this examines the difference between democratic and fascist states, and covers the Japanese conquest of Manchuria and the Italian conquest of Ethiopia.

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.

In 1942, the Royal Academy invited him to join its Planning Committee working on London's post-war architectural reconstruction.

After briefly returning from Sudan, Nasser returned there in September 1942, then secured a job as an instructor in the Royal Military Academy in Cairo in May 1943.

His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985, and he is best remembered for his Academy Award – winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ), a sophisticated leading man opposite a corrupt John Wayne in Reap the Wild Wind ( 1942 ), the murder-plotting husband in Dial M for Murder ( 1954 ), and as Oliver Barrett III in Love Story ( 1970 ).

Notable works included Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), and Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ), all of which won Wyler Academy Awards for Best Director, as well as Best Picture in their respective years.

Following The Invisible Man, Universal Studios tried to typecast him in horror films, but he broke free, starting with the gleefully evil role of Prince John in The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1938 ), then with his Academy Award-nominated performance as the conflicted corrupt US senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), and followed with probably his most famous role, the flexible French police Captain Renault in Casablanca ( 1942 ).

He was also nominated four times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Casablanca ( 1942 ), Mr. Skeffington ( 1944 ), and Notorious ( 1946 ).

Garson won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1942 for her role as a strong British wife and mother in the middle of World War II in Mrs. Miniver.

He continued as a character actor for another forty years, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1942 ( How Green Was My Valley ).

Fantasia was the subject of two Academy Honorary Awards on February 26, 1942 — one for Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins, and the RCA Manufacturing Company for their " outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures through the production of Fantasia ", and the other to Stokowski " and his associates for their unique achievement in the creation of a new form of visualized music in Walt Disney's production Fantasia, thereby widening the scope of the motion picture as entertainment and as an art form ".

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, which was filmed in 1942 and early 1943, but not released until 1944, was nominated for a 1945 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and in 2001 it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".