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The Uppsala Conflict Data Program project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 4.62 million. However, the Correlates of War estimates that the prior year, 1941, was the deadliest such year. Death toll estimates for both 1941 and 1942 range from 2.28 to 7.71 million each. [1]
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 ...
9–29 January – 1942 Betteshanger miners' strike in the Kent Coalfield. 10 January – World War II: Liverpool Blitz ends with German bombs dropped in the Stanhope Street area of the city, with nine people dying and many more suffering injuries. Among the houses destroyed in the bombing is the former home of Adolf Hitler's half-brother Alois ...
Japanese forces entered Manila. [2]Axis forces surrendered at Bardia, Libya.Some 2,200 German troops and 4,400 Italians were captured. [3]The Battle of Kampar ended in tactical Allied victory.
The ship would be decommissioned later in the year and never returned to service. German submarine U-611 was commissioned. The Advertising Council, Inc is founded. The 14th Academy Awards were held in Los Angeles. How Green Was My Valley won Best Picture, and its director John Ford won his third Oscar for Best Director.
February 27 – James Stanley Hey, a British Army research officer, first detects radio waves emitted by the Sun, helping to pioneer radio astronomy. [1]October 3 – The first V-2 rocket is successfully launched from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany, flying a distance of 147 km and reaching a height of 84.5 km, becoming the first man-made object to reach space.
This was also the first deportation of Slovak Jews; of the 57,000 deported in 1942 only a few hundred survived the Holocaust. The Germans launched Operation Bamberg, an anti-partisan operation in occupied Belarus. Police in Rio de Janeiro announced that they had smashed a Nazi spy ring with the arrest of 200 operatives. [37]