1942 June 17 Convoy PQ-17 leaves Iceland for Murmansk – massive casualties from German onslaught during the trip. July 5 10 out of 27 ships reach Murmansk.
... July 13 - Pablo Neruda, poet
August 28 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer
November 30 - Clyfford Still, painter
Deaths:
January 20 - Dmitri Ivanovich ...