1942 1943 facts

While investigating facts about 1942 1943, I found out little known, but curios details like:

Otto Frank (Anne Frank's father) kept paying the rent for their old apartment until July 1st 1943, they went into hiding on July 6th 1942. Otto hoped that the war would be short and that they could move back in after it was over.

The British and Germans invented chaff independently (under the names Window and Düppel) in 1942, but neither side was willing to use it, for fear of giving the idea to the enemy, until the British broke the taboo in July 1943

In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 13 of the best facts about 1942 1943 I managed to collect.

1. About Calvin Graham. He was 12 and enlisted in the Navy in 1942. Fought in WW2, was awarded Bronze Star and Purple Heart medals, tossed out in 1943. Medals revoked.

2. During 1942 and 1943, more than 20 German U-boats operated in the Gulf of Mexico. They attacked tankers transporting oil from ports in Texas and Louisiana, successfully sinking 56 vessels.

3. The ball atop One Times Square started in 1907 as 100 incandescent light bulbs on a wood and iron structure hoisted with a rope. The ball drop tradition has been observed every year since, except in 1942 and 1943 in observance of wartime blackouts.

4. In 1942 Japanese troops landed and occupied the Aleutian Islands of Attu and Kiska. They were driven out entirely a year later between May and August 1943 by U.S. and Canadian forces. This was the first significant foreign occupation of American soil since the War of 1812.

5. Alexey Maresyev was a Soviet fighter ace during WWII shot down behind enemy lines on 4 April 1942. It took him 18 days to get back to Soviet-controlled territory, and his injuries had become so bad he lost both legs. He spent a year mastering his prostheses and returned to flying in June 1943.

6. Upton Sinclair wrote the book titled Dragon's Teeth, published in 1942. He won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for this novel which covered the Nazi's takeover of Germany in the 1930s.

7. During WWII the Burlington Municipal Airport (KBTV) was noted as being the busiest airport in the world on both August 14, 1942 and February 11, 1943, with 662 and 793 landings respectively.

8. Operation Little Saturn was a Red Army operation on the Eastern Front of World War II that led to battles in the North Caucasus and Donets Basin regions of the Soviet Union from December 1942 to February 1943 such as Kursk and the Third Battle of Kharkov.

9. The New Year's Ball has been lowered every year since 1907, with the exceptions of 1942 and 1943, when the ceremony was suspended due to the wartime "dimout" of lights in New York City

10. Chaff (radar countermeasures) was independently developed by the UK, US and Germany in 1942. However, the first deployment was in June 1943, because both sides were worried that using the technology would result in the other side copying it.

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The Time’s Square New Year’s Eve ball drop was suspended in 1942 and 1943 because of blackout restrictions during World War two. Instead, a moment of silent was observed at midnight in the square, followed by church bells playing from trucks.