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  2. April 1942 - Wikipedia

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    The following events occurred in April 1942: April 1, 1942 (Wednesday) In the Burma Campaign, Japanese forces attacked Prome in strength. [1]

  3. Szlama Ber Winer - Wikipedia

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    Szlama Ber Winer, nom de guerre Yakov (Ya'akov) Grojanowski (23 September 1911 – c. 10 April 1942), was a Polish Jew from Izbica Kujawska, who escaped from the Chełmno extermination camp during the Holocaust in German-occupied Poland.

  4. Battle of Bataan - Wikipedia

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    MacArthur anticipated having until April 1942 to train and equip a combat ready force. On 26 July 1941 MacArthur was recalled to active duty within the US army and given the rank of lieutenant general. In August, MacArthur called into service one regiment for each of his ten reserve divisions, and inducted them into the US armed forces.

  5. Indian Ocean raid - Wikipedia

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    The Indian Ocean raid, also known as Operation C [2] or Battle of Ceylon in Japanese, was a naval sortie carried out by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) from 31 March to 10 April 1942. Japanese aircraft carriers under Admiral Chūichi Nagumo struck Allied shipping and naval bases around British Ceylon , but failed to locate and destroy the bulk ...

  6. Timeline of the Eastern Front of World War II - Wikipedia

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    April 9 – June 9: Germany invades Denmark and Norway. Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack. Norway holds out until June 9. May 10 – June 22: Germany attacks western Europe, specifically France and the neutral Low Countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg). Luxembourg is occupied on May 10; the Netherlands surrenders on May ...

  7. Timeline of World War II (1942) - Wikipedia

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    6: Japanese naval forces put troops ashore on Manus Island in the Bismarck Archipelago (some sources give a date of 8 April for these landings). 8: Heavy RAF bombing of Hamburg. American forces are strained for one last offensive on Bataan. With the withdrawal of HMS Penelope from Malta, Force K in Malta comes to a close.

  8. Southwest Area Fleet - Wikipedia

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    The Southwest Area Fleet was an operational command of the Imperial Japanese Navy established on April 10, 1942, to coordinate naval, air, and ground forces for the invasion, occupation and defense of the Philippines, French Indochina, Malaya, and the Netherlands East Indies.

  9. People Are Funny - Wikipedia

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    In 1942, learning of a show that was canceled, he pitched People Are Funny to NBC, and it went on the air April 10, 1942, with Art Baker as host. In a popular first-season stunt, a man was assigned to register a trained seal at the Knickerbocker Hotel while explaining that the seal was his girlfriend.