Jump on our Virtual Newsstand as we journey back to 1942. See and read the comic books on sale month by month, and find out the major news of the day.

January: Carole Lombard dies in a plane crash aged 33. She had just raised over $2 million in defense bonds at a rally that evening.

February: Executive order 9066 allows U.S. military to define exclusion zones. Many Japanese Americans are sent to internment camps.

March: Belzec, the first Nazi German extermination camp is created in Poland. Approximately 500,000 are killed in just 9 months.

April: Lieutenant Colonel James 'Jimmy' Doolittle plans & leads the first U.S. air raid to strike the Japanese Home Islands.

May: The Women's Army Corps (WAC) is created as an auxiliary unit about 150,000 women will serve during the war years.

June: Czech paratroopers attempt to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, a main architect of the Holocaust. He dies 8 days later.

July: The Messerschmitt Me 262, the world's first operational jet fighter aircraft, flies using only its jets for the first time.

August: 'Quit India' resolution is passed by the All India Congress Committee, starting widespread civil disobedience.

September: The Battle of Milne Bay begins. The Japanese attack on the Australian garrison is their first failure in the Pacific campaign.

October: The first V-2 rocket is successfully launched from Peenemunde Germany. It is the first man-made object to reach space.

November: Casablanca premieres at the Hollywood Theater in New York. The classic film stars Humphrey Bogart & Ingrid Bergman.

December: As part of the Manhattan Project a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.