• 1942 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in March 1942: The Second Battle...
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  • The list of shipwrecks in March 1942 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during March 1942. One more ship may have been lost...
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    January 1942 by a Gurkha detachment of 4/12th Frontier Force Regiment of the 16th Indian Infantry Brigade. Following the fall of Rangoon on March 8, however...
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    out in areas of eastern Bengal in 1942 to hamper a potential Japanese invasion. The fall of Rangoon in March 1942 cut off the import of Burmese rice...
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  • 1942 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1942. 1942 (MCMXLII)...
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    conversion to WCCA use in March 1942, and the Army Corps of Engineers finished construction on these sites on April 21, 1942. All but four of the 15 confinement...
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  • On March 16–17, 1942, a deadly late-winter tornado outbreak struck a large area of the Central and Southern United States, killing 149 people and injuring...
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    The winter campaign of 1941–1942 from 5 December 1941 to 7 May 1942 was the name given by Soviet military command to the period that marked the commencement...
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    1941 Ford (redirect from 1942 Ford)
    unpredictability surrounding World War II. The 1941 design would continue in an aborted 1942 model year and would be restarted in 1946 and produced until 1948 when the...
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    of Java from 28 February – 12 March 1942. It involved forces from the Empire of Japan, which invaded on 28 February 1942, and Allied personnel. Allied...
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    Gustavus Henry March-Phillipps, DSO, MBE (1908 – 12 September 1942; sometimes spelled "March-Phillips") was the founder of the British Army's No. 62 Commando...
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    A total lunar eclipse took place on Tuesday, March 3, 1942. It was a central eclipse, with the moon passing through the darkest portion of the earth's...
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    January 1942, or before the establishment of the women's camp in March 1942. In Kommandant in Auschwitz, he wrote: "In the spring of 1942 the first...
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    The action of 27 March 1942 was a naval battle fought between the United States and Germany during World War II in the Atlantic Ocean. While patrolling...
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  • The Bombing of Rabaul in February and March 1942 occurred when Allied forces launched counter-attacks against the Empire of Japan base at Rabaul, Papua...
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    and Feroze grew closer to each other while in England. They married in March 1942 according to Hindu rituals. Indira's father Jawaharlal Nehru opposed her...
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    The 1942 Design Light Fleet Carrier, commonly referred to as the British Light Fleet Carrier, was a light aircraft carrier design created by the Royal...
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    Edsall (lost 1 March 1942) Stewart (lost 2 March 1942) Barker Parrott Bulmer John D. Ford Pope (lost 1 March 1942) Peary (lost 19 February 1942) Pillsbury...
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    The Western Australian emergency of March 1942 was a series of local responses that occurred in relation to activity in northern Western Australia that...
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    shelling Christmas Island. 8 March 1942: Japanese troops captured Rangoon. 9 March 1942: Japanese troops captured Java. 11 March 1942: Japanese submarine I-2...
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    in the Australian Territory of New Guinea, from 23 January into February 1942. It was a strategically significant defeat of Allied forces by Japan in the...
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    States. The AAF was a component of the United States Army, which on 2 March 1942 was divided functionally by executive order into three autonomous forces:...
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  • Clouds March 1942 3 March The Great King (Germany) 7 March Bullet Scars 10 March Un Garibaldino al Convento (Italy) 11 March Rio Rita 13 March The Ghost...
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    known as United States Forces in the Philippines (USFIP) on 23 March. On 18 April 1942, ABDACOM was replaced by General Headquarters (GHQ), Southwest...
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    died, and; a march from Stalag VIII-B, known as the "Lamsdorf Death March", which was similar to the better-known Bataan Death March (1942) in terms of...
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    USS S-37 (section March 1942)
    turning south. By 11 March 1942, she was clear of the East Indies, and on 19 March she arrived at Fremantle, Australia. In April 1942, S-37 continued on...
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    Knight's Cross on 2 March 1942 as SS-Standartenführer and commander of the SS-Kavallerie-Brigade 157th Oak Leaves on 22 December 1942 as SS-Oberführer and...
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    Churchill war ministry (category Use dmy dates from March 2022)
    Opposition, necessary for House of Commons functionality, till 23 May 1945. 12 March 1942: Oliver Lyttelton fills the vacant position of Minister of Production...
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  • Trump emigrated to the U.S. in 1930 and became a naturalized citizen in March 1942. She raised five children with her husband and lived in the New York area...
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    sortie carried out by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) from 31 March to 10 April 1942. Japanese aircraft carriers under Admiral Chūichi Nagumo struck...
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