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Lt A R Nininger Jr awarded Cong Medal of Honor posthumously
U S Navy doubts U-boats' presence
USSR forces take Lozovaya, Donets basin; Ukraine drive threatens Dnieper River bend; Timoshenko forces push wedge south of Kharkov; Germans fail to halt Valdai thrust; Germans admit new USSR landings, Crimea
Knox and Read Adm Towers seek increase to $24,000,000,000, Sen subcom hearing
1942Marty Balin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2018)[†]
Martyn Jerel Buchwald, known as Marty Balin, was an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known as a member of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship.
1942World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. Some 300 captured Allied troops are killed after the surrender. One-quarter of the remaining POWs remain alive at the end of the war.[†]
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.