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1942 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1942nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 942nd year ...
Events from the year 1942 in the United States. Incumbents. Federal government. President: Franklin D. Roosevelt (D-New York) Vice ...
1942, clockwise from top left: British artillery barrage opens the Battle of El Alamein; the Jews of Salonika are rounded up for deportation to extermination camps; Soviet troops of the Great Patriotic War fight the Battle of Stalingrad; USS Lexington (CV-2) under fire at the Battle of the Coral Sea; Reinhard Heydrich's car after attack by Czech resistance; 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking troops ...
1942-01-11 United Kingdom Japan: Axis Suursaari: Continuation War: Eastern Front: 1942-03-26 1942-04-02 Soviet Union Finland: Axis Adzhimushkay quarry: Operation Barbarossa: Eastern Front: 1942-05-16 1942-10-30 Soviet Union Germany: Axis Soviet submarine campaign (1942) Baltic Sea campaigns: Eastern Front: 1942-06 1942-10 Soviet Union Germany ...
This happened in 1942, with the country engaged in World War II. Fears of sabotage were real, especially on the West Coast. The food supply was considered a vulnerable target.
The following events occurred in January 1942: January 1, 1942 (Thursday) The ...
The series of battles known collectively as the Battle of Rzhev, Summer 1942 began on the Eastern Front. WAVES, the women's branch of the United States Navy Reserve, was founded in the United States. German submarine U-166 was depth charged and sunk in the Gulf of Mexico by the U.S. Navy patrol craft PC-566.
The Battle of Los Angeles, also known as the Great Los Angeles Air Raid, is the name given by contemporary sources to a rumored attack on the continental United States by Imperial Japan and the subsequent anti-aircraft artillery barrage which took place from late 24 February to early 25 February 1942, over Los Angeles, California.