1942

Events

 * The Third Doctor encountered several Nazi soldiers in France. (COMIC: Timebenders)

July

 * 28 July- The American Federation of Musicians' recording ban first started, banning American artists from recording music. (PROSE:Atom Bomb Blues)
 * Reports of vampires emerged from Romania. (TV: The Curse of Fenric)


 * 24 December - Oskar Steinmann supervised the first test of a "flying bomb" at Peenemunde. (PROSE: Just War)

Unknown Dates

 * Gerald Kneale died, becoming one of the few Torchwood Institute operatives not to be killed on active service. (COMIC: Rift War! Part Six: Circles)
 * Ben Jackson was born. (PROSE: Invasion of the Cat-People)
 * Polly Wright was born. (PROSE: The Murder Game, AUDIO: Resistance)
 * Anthony Chambers was born. (AUDIO: The Reaping)

Alternative timeline

 * In an alternative timeline, the Allied leaders met in a secret bunker underneath Washington, D.C.. With no common enemy to fight, relations between the Soviets, Americans and British broke down. The centre of the debate was the Ironsides. Neither Stalin nor Truman were keen to allow such powerful weapons to be the property of the British Army alone, but the Ironsides' insistence that under no circumstances would they relocate from the United Kingdom left Churchill with no choice but to agree to their destruction. (DWAN: Doctor Who The Official Annual 2011)

Unknown date

 * Actor Carl Rigg was born.
 * Actor Max Harvey was born.