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Gers counter-attack, central sector and below Stalingrad
Rules Nev divorces valid, O B Williams case
Allied air forces attack enemy transport, Sirte-Buerat el Hsun area
RAF bombs Duisburg; loses 11 planes; 44 Ger fighters reptd destroyed in Romilly-sur-Seine raid; exploits of Lt Riordan and other fliers noted; RAF raids mil targets, France and Low Countries; Gers raid Eng northeast and southeast coast towns
Oil-burning equipment conversion to coal cited
1942Jerry Koosman, American baseball player[†]
Jerome Martin Koosman is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets, Minnesota Twins, Chicago White Sox, and Philadelphia Phillies between 1967 and 1985. Koosman is best known as a member of the Miracle Mets team that won the 1969 World Series.
1942Dick Parry, English saxophonist[†]
Richard Parry is an English saxophonist. He has appeared as a session musician on various albums, most notably in solo parts on the Pink Floyd songs "Money", "Us and Them", "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and "Wearing the Inside Out". He also played on the Bloodstone album Riddle of the Sphinx.
1942Franz Boas, German-American anthropologist and linguist (born 1858)[†]
Franz Uri Boas was a German-American anthropologist and ethnomusicologist. He was a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology". His work is associated with the movements known as historical particularism and cultural relativism.
1942World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.[†]
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany during the Nazi period from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. His invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 marked the outbreak of the Second World War. Throughout his leadership in the ensuing conflict, he was closely involved in the direction of German military operations and the perpetration of the Holocaust—the genocide of about six million Jews and millions of other victims.