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- | * Lt. Jonah Hex surrenders to Union officials at Fort Charlotte. Hex is later balmed | + | * Lt. Jonah Hex surrenders to Union officials at Fort Charlotte. Hex is later blamed |
* January 1: President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation. | * January 1: President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation. | ||
* May 2-10: " | * May 2-10: " | ||
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===June, 1940=== | ===June, 1940=== | ||
* The man known as the Unknown Soldier has first case. [Unknown Soldier #249] | * The man known as the Unknown Soldier has first case. [Unknown Soldier #249] | ||
+ | * Young reporter Wayne Clifford is sent by //The New York Courier// to London in order to report on the state of England during the Blitz, where he is mentored by seasoned reporter Ed Barnes and comes up against government news censorship. [" | ||
===August, 1940=== | ===August, 1940=== | ||
* The Blackhawks meet the first villainous Killer Shark. [Blackhawk #269] | * The Blackhawks meet the first villainous Killer Shark. [Blackhawk #269] | ||
===October, 1940=== | ===October, 1940=== | ||
* An American correspondent for the London-based newspaper //The Tribute,// Richard " | * An American correspondent for the London-based newspaper //The Tribute,// Richard " | ||
+ | * Wayne Clifford is transferred to North Africa, where he becomes a war correspondent alongside British soldiers fighting the Italian invaders. [" | ||
===December, | ===December, | ||
* Captain X steals a dangerous secret weapon -- a ray that instantly dissolves metal -- from the Germans that was invented by a scientist named Graff. [Captain X of the R.A.F., Star Spangled Comics #3 (December, 1941)] | * Captain X steals a dangerous secret weapon -- a ray that instantly dissolves metal -- from the Germans that was invented by a scientist named Graff. [Captain X of the R.A.F., Star Spangled Comics #3 (December, 1941)] | ||
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===September, | ===September, | ||
* The adventures of Keen Arrow are first published by Kolossal Komics. //Note: Keen Arrow is a fictional character who predated the real Earth-1 Green Arrow' | * The adventures of Keen Arrow are first published by Kolossal Komics. //Note: Keen Arrow is a fictional character who predated the real Earth-1 Green Arrow' | ||
+ | ===October, 1941=== | ||
+ | * Wayne Clifford leaves North Africa for Russia to report on the Eastern Front, but the British supply ship he travels on is attacked by a German U-boat, and it nearly sinks until a Russian ship arrives to tow them to the nearest port. [" | ||
===December, | ===December, | ||
* December 7: The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, resulting in the United States entering World War II. | * December 7: The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, resulting in the United States entering World War II. | ||
- | * With the U.S. officially in the war, Richard " | + | |
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* Sgt. Rock and Easy Company start combat in World War II beginning in North Africa, followed by Italy (1943), France and Belgium (1944), and Germany (1945). | * Sgt. Rock and Easy Company start combat in World War II beginning in North Africa, followed by Italy (1943), France and Belgium (1944), and Germany (1945). | ||
* Jeb Stuart commands the Haunted Tank. | * Jeb Stuart commands the Haunted Tank. | ||
+ | ===February, | ||
+ | * Reporter Wayne Clifford begins dating a young woman named Joy Winters, who wants to be an army nurse. [" | ||
+ | ===March, 1942=== | ||
+ | * Wayne Clifford takes a new assignment as a combat reporter at Bataan in the Philippines, | ||
===April, 1942=== | ===April, 1942=== | ||
+ | * April 1: Commander Steel (Hank Heywood) crosses over from Earth-2 and establishes a new life for himself on Earth-1. | ||
* The Boy Commandos have first public case. //Note: This is the Earth-1 version of the Earth-2 team.// [Detective Comics #64] | * The Boy Commandos have first public case. //Note: This is the Earth-1 version of the Earth-2 team.// [Detective Comics #64] | ||
* Albert Hollerer of Germany becomes a wood elemental called the Heap. [Swamp Thing v2 #47] | * Albert Hollerer of Germany becomes a wood elemental called the Heap. [Swamp Thing v2 #47] | ||
* Microwave Man goes into retirement for 40 years. [Action Comics #487] | * Microwave Man goes into retirement for 40 years. [Action Comics #487] | ||
- | * April 1: Commander Steel (Hank Heywood) crosses over from Earth-2 | + | * Combat reporter Wayne Clifford is captured as a prisoner of war by the Japanese along with U.S. troops in Bataan, |
===November, | ===November, | ||
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===June, 1944=== | ===June, 1944=== | ||
* June 6: | * June 6: | ||
- | * The Blackhawks' | + | * On the eve of D-Day, the Blackhawks |
- | * Sgt. Rock and Easy Co. are amongst | + | * Sgt. Rock and Easy Co. are among the Allied soldiers invading Normandy on D-Day. |
* Jimmy Olsen time-travels from the year 1977 to Europe after D-Day and masquerades as Private Von Olsen. He subsequently is promoted first to Captain and then to Adolf Hitler' | * Jimmy Olsen time-travels from the year 1977 to Europe after D-Day and masquerades as Private Von Olsen. He subsequently is promoted first to Captain and then to Adolf Hitler' | ||
* James W. Gordon graduates from law school and decides to become a policeman, entering police academy during the next intake. | * James W. Gordon graduates from law school and decides to become a policeman, entering police academy during the next intake. | ||
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===February, | ===February, | ||
* February 5: Perry White is hired as a full-time reporter at the Daily Planet. //Note: Previously, Perry was a cub reporter at the Chicago Journal in the mid-1930s, then a cub reporter at the Daily Planet as a cub reporter from 1937 to about 1938 or so, then as a full reporter at the Gotham Gazette until 1949, probably acting as a war correspondent from 1942-1945 for that paper.// ["The Most Amazing Camera in the World," | * February 5: Perry White is hired as a full-time reporter at the Daily Planet. //Note: Previously, Perry was a cub reporter at the Chicago Journal in the mid-1930s, then a cub reporter at the Daily Planet as a cub reporter from 1937 to about 1938 or so, then as a full reporter at the Gotham Gazette until 1949, probably acting as a war correspondent from 1942-1945 for that paper.// ["The Most Amazing Camera in the World," | ||
+ | * February 20: Hal Jordan is born. //Note: Hal Jordan appears to be about a year older than Clark Kent, according to The New Adventures of Superboy #13, which portrays Hal applying to Metropolis University during a time when Clark was only 16 years old.// | ||
===March, 1949=== | ===March, 1949=== | ||
* March 19: Barry Allen is born to Dr. Henry and Nora Allen in Fallville, Iowa. | * March 19: Barry Allen is born to Dr. Henry and Nora Allen in Fallville, Iowa. |