• 1942 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in January 1942: The Declaration...
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  • The list of shipwrecks in January 1942 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during January 1942. For the sinking of the Panamanian...
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    (3 January 1942 – 26 January 1942), the Lyuban Offensive Operation (7 January 1942 – 30 April 1942), the Demyansk Offensive Operation (7 January 1942 –...
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    New Britain in the Australian Territory of New Guinea, from 23 January into February 1942. It was a strategically significant defeat of Allied forces by...
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    to this article: Adolf Hitler's Speech at the Berlin Sportpalast (30 January 1942) Ten days after the Wannsee Conference at which the Final Solution was...
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    withdraw their best division and the bulk of their airpower in early January 1942. That, coupled with the defenders' decision to withdraw into a defensive...
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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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    René Angélil (category 1942 births)
    Angélil CM OQ (French pronunciation: [ʁəne ɑ̃ʒelil]; (1942-01-16)16 January 1942 – (2016-01-14)14 January 2016) was a Canadian musical producer, talent manager...
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    Operation Postmaster (category Conflicts in 1942)
    Scale Raiding Force (SSRF) and the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in January 1942. Their objective was to board the Italian and German ships in the harbour...
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  • periods: First (22 June 1941 – 18 November 1942) Second (19 November 1942 – 31 December 1943) Third (1 January 1944 – 9 May 1945) The war with Japan, the...
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    The Third Battle of Changsha (24 December 1941 – 15 January 1942; Chinese: 第三次長沙會戰) was the first major offensive in China by Imperial Japanese forces...
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    American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM) was formed on 1 January 1942, to control all Allied forces in South East Asia and the South West Pacific...
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    1941) Iona (lost January 1942) Mercedes (lost 2 January 1942) Vaga 8 ferryboats and launches Camia (YFB-683) Dapdap (lost 2 January 1942) Magdalena (YFB-687)...
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    She departed Davao on 2 January 1942. Chitose was anchored in Malalag Bay in Davao Gulf on the coast of Mindanao on 4 January 1942 when U.S. Army Air Forces...
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  • all time, Casablanca. The top ten 1942 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: January 16 – Actress Carole Lombard is killed...
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    were a series of Red Army offensives against the Wehrmacht between 8 January 1942 and 31 March 1943, on the Eastern Front of World War II. The battles...
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  • (December 1941–January 1942) (15 parts) "The Mechanical Man" (January 1942) (10 parts) "Lita the Leopard Woman" (January–February 1942) (12 parts) "The...
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  • The 1942 National Football League All-star Game (January) was the professional football league's fourth all-star game. The game pitted the Chicago Bears...
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    sever diplomatic ties with the Vichy Government until November 1942. In January 1942, the Free French leadership decided to send Surcouf to the Pacific...
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    The Battle of Bataan (Tagalog: Labanan sa Bataan; January 7 – April 9, 1942) was fought by the United States and the Philippine Commonwealth against Imperial...
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    the sending, by Portugal, of a military force to replace them. On 28 January 1942, the Portuguese force sailed from Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, heading...
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    convinced producer Hal B. Wallis to purchase the film rights to the play in January 1942. Brothers Julius and Philip G. Epstein were initially assigned to write...
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    of New Guinea beginning with the capture of Rabaul on 23 January 1942. On 19 February 1942, Darwin was hit by an air raid, the first time the Australian...
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    Bardia on 2 January 1942, Sollum on 12 January and the fortified Halfaya position on 17 January, taking about 13,800 prisoners. On 21 January 1942, Rommel...
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    Japanese forces on 29 January 1942. After ten weeks in the jungle-covered mountains, Allied troops surrendered on 1 April 1942.[citation needed] Runciman...
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  • Panzer Army Africa (category Articles with unsourced statements from January 2019)
    August 1941 – January 1942; German-Italian force Panzer Army Africa, (Panzerarmee Afrika, Armata Corazzata Africa) January–October 1942 German-Italian...
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  • placed under the command of the British Far East Command and later, on 7 January 1942, under the short-lived South West Pacific Command or ABDACOM, which was...
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    appears to have believed that the enemy had been defeated, writing on 12 January 1942 that the Axis forces were "beginning to feel the strain" and were "hard...
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    January/February 1942) SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Ott (February 1942January 1943) SS-Obersturmbannführer Josef Auinger (July 1942January 1943)...
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    responsible was most likely Einsatzkommando 5. From November 1941 to January 1942, Einsatzkommando 5 troops were stationed in Kiev, Zhitomir, Rovno, and...
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