1942 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in May 1942: The British evacuated...

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...

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...

1942 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1942. 1942 (MCMXLII)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Brazilian ships wherever they were, and from April 1942 were found in Brazilian waters. On 22 May 1942, the first Brazilian attack (although unsuccessful)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

from elsewhere to defend their Atlantic operations. On the night of 30-31 May 1942, the RAF Bomber Command performed Operation Millennium. 1,047 bombers -...

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...

(15October 1939 - 15 May 1942) Generalleutnant Otto Kohlermann (15 May - November 1942) Generalmajor Hans-Adolf von Arenstorff (November 1942 - 2 January 1943) :...

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...

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...

Operation Torch: November 1942 Operation Terminal: 8 November 1942 Naval Battle of Casablanca Tunisia Campaign: November 1942 – May 1943 Battle of the Kasserine...

On May 2, 1942, a deadly tornado outbreak affected portions of the Central United States, particularly Northeastern Oklahoma and Southeast Kansas. In...

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...

educator (b. 1892) 1942 – John Barrymore, American actor (b. 1882) 1946 – Martin Gottfried Weiss, German SS officer (b. 1905) 1948 – May Whitty, English...

by the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) and Kriegsmarine (German Navy). In 1942, the British assembled large flotillas of warships to escort Malta convoys...

battleship Bismarck and near torpedoing of her sistership Tirpitz in May 1941 and March 1942, respectively, spurred the Kriegsmarine to acquire aircraft carriers...

officer who wrote the post-war memoir Panzer Commander), to be superior in May 1942 to the Panzer IV and able to operate out of range of German 5 cm anti-tank...

[ˈʁaɪnhaʁt ˈtʁɪstan ˈʔɔʏɡeːn ˈhaɪdʁɪç, - ˈʔɔʏɡn̩ -] ; 7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking German SS and police official during the Nazi era and...

to Melbourne in March 1942 and American troops began massing in Australia. Enemy naval activity reached Sydney in late May 1942, when Japanese midget...