Torpids 1942

Notes

Bumps racing continued sporadically during WWII, with many colleges combining to form crews.
The Times Sat 21 March 1942
Torpids were rowed at Oxford last week. Although on a much restricted scale, they were a great success and were one of the first results of a new drive to improve the physical fitness of men up here in the S.T.C.
In other news ... [1942]

Monarch: George VI
Prime Minister: Winston Churchill (Conservative)

March 15
WWII: Dunamunde Action: 1,900 central European Jews are shot dead north east of Riga, 1,840 are killed on the 26th.
March 16
WWII: New Zealand and Australia declare war on Thailand.
March 17
The Holocaust: Operation Reinhard The Nazi German Belzec extermination camp opens in occupied Poland, about 1 km south of the railroad station at Belzec in the Lublin district of the General Government. At least 434,508 people are killed here up to December 1942.
March 18
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, signs Executive Order 9102, creating the War Relocation Authority (WRA), which becomes responsible for the internment of Americans of Japanese and, to a lesser extent, German and Italian descent, many of them legal citizens.
March 20
WWII: After being forced to flee the Philippines, U.S. General Douglas MacArthur announces (in Terowie, South Australia), "I came through and I shall return."