Video: 'USS WASP (CV-7) sinking movies'
(Tuesday, September 15, 1942, at about 2:44 p.m. local time, during World War II) — The aircraft carrier USS Wasp was torpedoed today by a Japanese submarine some 170 miles southeast of San Cristobal Island. The U.S. Navy ended up sinking the badly damaged aircraft carrier.
Video: Sept. 11, 1942 (at 4:03)
(Friday, September 11, 1942, during the Battle of Stalingrad, part of the Eastern Front of World War II) — Wilhelm Hoffman, a soldier in the 267th Infantry Regiment, 94th Infantry Division of the German 6th Army who chronicled the Battle of Stalingrad in his journal, wrote today:
Our battalion is fighting in the suburbs of Stalingrad. We can already see the Volga; firing is going on all the time. Wherever you look is fire and flames . . . Russian cannon and machine-guns are firing out of the burning city. Fanatics . . .
Video: 'Fred Korematsu - PROTEST'
(Tuesday, September 8, 1942, during World War II) — U.S. District Court Judge Martin I. Welsh, ruling from Sacramento, California, on a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Fred Korematsu, upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.
Video: Nixon joins U.S. Navy (at 2:10)
(Wednesday, September 2, 1942) — Richard M. Nixon, 29, setting aside his Quaker pacifism, was today commissioned as Navy Lieutenant (junior grade).
Video: Germans bomb Stalingrad (at 8:59)
(Sunday, August 23, 1942, during the Battle of Stalingrad, part of the Eastern Front of World War II) — The Germans launched the Battle of Stalingrad today with a massive strategic bombing that caused a firestorm, killing thousands and turning Stalingrad into a vast landscape of rubble and burnt ruins. Continue reading Germans launch Battle of Stalingrad with massive bombing 70 years ago today (1942)
Video: Germans reach Volga River (at 5:29)
(Sunday, August 23, 1942, during Case Blue, the German summer offensive of 1942, part of the Eastern Front of World War II) — The spearhead of Germany’s Sixth Army reached the Volga River just north of Stalingrad in the Soviet Union today.
Video: 'The Talk of the Town' (clip)
(Thursday, August 20, 1942) — The Talk of the Town, a film about an escaped prisoner and a stuffy law professor who vie for the hand of a spirited schoolteacher, opened today in the U.S.
Directed by George Stevens, the film stars Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman and Rex Ingram.
Video: Dieppe Raid (at 1:58)
(Wednesday, August 19, 1942, 5 a.m. local time, part of the North West Europe Campaign of World War II) — An Allied force of 7,000 men today carried out a large daytime raid against German positions at the French seaport of Dieppe, suffering more than 50 percent casualties. Continue reading Allies launch disasterous raid on Dieppe 70 years ago this hour (1942)
Video: 'Bambi' trailer
(Thursday, August 13, 1942) — Bambi, an animated film about a young deer growing up in the wild after his mother is shot by hunters, premiered in the U.S. today at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, five days after its world premiere in London.
Directed by David Hand, the fifth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series stars Bobby Stewart, Donnie Dunagan and Hardie Albright.
Video: 'The Pied Piper' clip
(Thursday, August 12, 1942) — The Pied Piper, a film about an Englishman on vacation in France who is caught up in the German invasion of that country, premiered today at the Roxy in New York City.
Directed by Irving Pichel, the film stars Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall and Anne Baxter.
