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December 1 – Gasoline rationing begins in the United States. December 2 – Manhattan Project : Below the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago , a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction (a coded message, "The Italian navigator has landed in the new world" is then sent to U.S ...
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Coffee rationing began in the United States. [12] Died: Franz Berger, 25, Austrian Wehrmacht officer (killed in the Battle of Stalingrad); Alexis Charles Doxat, 75, English recipient of the Victoria Cross; William George BRAZELL Jr, 23, Corp - US Army
The United States Coast and Geodetic Survey ship Pathfinder was beached at Corregidor after taking indirect damage from Japanese bombing. Qantas Short Empire shootdown : A Short Empire flying boat airliner was shot down by Japanese aircraft off the coast of West Timor . 13 of the 18 passengers and crew were killed.
The United States maintained its Constitutional Republic government structure throughout World War II. Certain expediencies were taken within the existing structure of the Federal government, such as conscription and other violations of civil liberties, including the internment and later dispersal of Japanese-Americans.
The Battle of Port Moresby began over Port Moresby, Papua.; The Battle of Ambon ended in Japanese victory.; Erwin Rommel's forces captured Timimi in Libya. The British Eighth Army fell back and began establishing what would soon be known as the Gazala Line.
View history; Tools. Tools. move to ... This category is for politics in the United States in the year 1942. 1937; 1938; 1939; ... Text is available under the ...
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