USA: Japanese-Americans on West coast interned. U-Boats land saboteurs on Long Island, Florida coasts, 6 executed. Unemployment eases, WPA ends. Gas rationing begins. Alcan Highway opens. Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire kills 493 people in Boston. French liner Normandy burns at New York pier. Spruce Goose designed by Howard Hughes and Henry Kaiser.

SONGS: This is the Army Mr. Jones. White Christmas. You'd Be so Nice to Come Home To. I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen. Paper Doll. Don't Get Around much Anymore. Serenade in Blue. I Had the Craziest Dream. That Old Black Magic. Be Careful it's My Heart. The Lamplighters Serenade. One Dozen Roses. Jingle, Jangle, Jingle.

WORLD: Philippines, Singapore, New Guinea fall to Japan. 75,000 Allied prisoners suffer on Bataan death march. U.S., Fleet wiped out in Java Sea. B-25's bomb Japan. Coral Sea victory blocks Japan's advances. Japs loose four carriers at Midway. U.S. Marines land on Guadalcanal. Leningrad seige Nazi: push toward Volga. Wehrimacht grinds to a halt at Stalingrad. Tobruk falls. Battle of El Alamein. Germans pushed out of Egypt. B-17's raid Rouen. All land in North Africa. Japs in Aleutians. French scuttle own fleet. Mt Etna erupts. Cyclone kills 40,000 in Bengel. 26 nations sign anti-nazi declaration. Hitler adopts final solution elimination of all Jews. Britain raids Dieppe on French coast.

MOVIES: Casablanca. In Which We Serve. Wake Island. Mrs. Miniver. This Above All. Random Harvest. Yankee Doodle Dandy. The Pride of the Yankees. H. M. Fulham, Esq. The Road to Morocco. Bambi. George Washington Slept Here. Holiday Inn. Woman of the Year.

STAGE: The Skin of Our Tooth. Porgy and Bess. By Jupiter. This is the Army. Star and Garter. Rosalinda.

BOOKS: The Moon is Down. See Here Private Hargrove. They Were Expendable. The Last Time I Saw Paris. My World and Welcome to It. Frenchman's Creek. Admiral of the Ocean. The Company She Keeps. The Stranger

FIRSTS: Controlled Nuclear Reaction. V-Mail. V-1 Rocket. Magnetic Recording Tape.

FADS: Short hairdo. Clothes patches. Women's slacks.