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Nimitz repts possibly half of Jap 30-ship armada destroyed and thousands of Jap troops lost; map
USSR repts Gen Field Marshal von Bock opens new front, Kharkov sector; drive for Don seen; map; Sevastopol holding but Moscow admits grave threat; Germans claim gains; guerrillas join USSR Army
1942Parris Glendening, American politician, 59th Governor of Maryland[†]
Parris Nelson Glendening is an American politician and academic who served as the 59th governor of Maryland from 1995 to 2003. He previously served as the county executive of Prince George's County, Maryland from 1982 to 1994 as a member of the Democratic Party. In 1999, Glendening was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
1942World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.[†]
Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States, was a policy under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, France, the Republic of China, and other Allied nations of the Second World War with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and 1945. The aid was given free of charge on the basis that such help was essential for the defense of the United States.
1942Free French Forces retreat from Bir Hakeim after having successfully delayed the Axis advance.[†]
Free France was a resistance government claiming to be the legitimate government of France following the dissolution of the Third Republic during World War II. Led by General Charles de Gaulle, Free France was established as a government-in-exile in London in June 1940 after the Fall of France to Nazi Germany. It joined the Allied nations in fighting Axis forces with the Free French Forces, supported the resistance in Nazi-occupied France, known as the French Forces of the Interior, and gained strategic footholds in several French colonies in Africa.