• 1942 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in May 1942: The British evacuated...
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    Tulagi, on 3–4 May 1942, was part of Operation Mo, the Empire of Japan's strategy in the South Pacific and South West Pacific Area in 1942. The plan called...
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  • The list of shipwrecks in May 1942 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during May 1942. "Russian Ship Sunk". The Times. No...
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    Campaign in August 1942 to Yamamoto's death in April 1943. The film, however, portrays Yamamoto's death as occurring in November 1942, the day after the...
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    harbor and port facilities of Manila Bay were denied to the Japanese until May 1942. While the Dutch East Indies operations were unaffected, this heavily hindered...
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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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    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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    eliminated in May 1942. After the failure of their first assault on Sevastopol, the Axis opted to conduct siege warfare until the middle of 1942, at which...
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  • Rita May (born 9 May 1942) is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Mags in the ITV children's drama Children's Ward, Margaret in the Sky One...
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    April 1942. She made an overnight stop at Davao on 25–26 April and arrived at Sasebo on 1 May 1942. She was in drydock at Sasebo from 9 to 16 May 1942 for...
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  • The year of 1942 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the greatest of all time, Casablanca...
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    in Hawaiian waters. On 31 January 1942, Lieutenant Commander Yahachi Tanabe took command of I-68, and on 20 May 1942 she was renumbered I-168. Assigned...
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    Battle of the Atlantic (category Wikipedia articles needing page number citations from May 2013)
    Brazilian ships wherever they were, and from April 1942 were found in Brazilian waters. On 22 May 1942, the first Brazilian attack (although unsuccessful)...
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    Arthur Greenwood, who had left the war cabinet, from 22 February 1942 until 23 May 1945. The main problem for Churchill as he became Prime Minister was...
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    December 1941 and began direct military assistance in North Africa on 11 May 1942. Fighting in North Africa started with the Italian declaration of war on...
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    British-led forces under his command, and he was relieved of the post in August 1942 during the North African campaign. In June 1943, he was once again appointed...
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  • On May 2, 1942, a deadly tornado outbreak affected portions of the Central United States, particularly Northeastern Oklahoma and Southeast Kansas. In...
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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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  • August 1941 – 14 October 1942) Gen. D. Alessandro Gloria (interim : 14–26 October 1942) Gen. C.A. Enea Navarini (26 October 1942 – 21 February 1943) Gen...
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  • Cauldron: Battle of Gazala, May 1942 is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1976 that simulates the Battle of Gazala during...
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    August 1942 Battle of Cape Esperance, 11–12 October 1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 13–15 November 1942 Battle of Tassafaronga, 30 November 1942 Operation...
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    Operation Torch: November 1942 Operation Terminal: 8 November 1942 Naval Battle of Casablanca Tunisia Campaign: November 1942May 1943 Battle of the Kasserine...
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  • The action of 13 May 1942 was a naval engagement during World War II between the British Royal Navy and the German Kriegsmarine. It was an attempt by Royal...
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    Major-General Mosley Mayne (Apr 1941 – May 1942) Brigadier Claude M. Vallentin (May 1942) Major-General H.R. Briggs (May 1942 – Jul 1944) Major-General Geoffrey...
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    reconnaissance of Kodiak Island on 24 May 1942 and of Chirikof Island and Sitkanak Island on 26 May 1942. On 27 May 1942, I-25 launched a Yokosuka E14Y1 (Allied...
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    down on 8 May 1942. Hermann Graf, the first fighter pilot to claim 200 aerial victories, shot down ten Soviet aircraft on 23 September 1942. Max Stotz...
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  • Strategic operations of the Red Army in World War II (category Wikipedia articles needing copy edit from May 2024)
    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 Campaign...
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    Digital Archives, 15 July 1942, retrieved 20 September 2013 pict., publisher (de): Prussian Heritage Image Archive, 7 May 1942, archived from the original...
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    Reinhard Heydrich (category 1942 deaths)
    HY-drik; German: [ˈʁaɪnhaʁt ˈtʁɪstan ˈʔɔʏɡn̩ ˈhaɪdʁɪç] ; 7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking German SS and police official during the Nazi era and...
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  • Battlefield 1942 is a 2002 first-person shooter video game developed by Digital Illusions CE and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows and...
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