Events[]
- Duck tape is invented.[1]
- Indiana Jones begins using a certain airline.[2]
- January-March: Japan captures Burma, Dutch East India, Manila, Singapore, Rangoon, Mandalay, the Philippines, Malaya and Wake.[3]
- February 22: Germans attack the Kasserine Pass.[3]
- March: General MacArthur flees the Philippines and arrives in Australia.[3]
- April 18: Doolittle raid. US Air Force bombs Tokyo.[3]
- May 7-8: Battle of Coral Sea.[3]
- June
- Professor Schlomo Petryk tests his newly invented machine and accidentally pulls an Anasazi-Indian from his dimension to Utah and land in Hiob.[4]
- June 4-7: Battle of Midway. US Navy turns back Japanese fleet.[3]
- June 12: Japanese take the Aleutian islands of Kiska and Attu.[3]
- August 7: Marines land on Guadalcanal.[3]
- August 19: Dieppe raid by Allies on French coast fails.[3]
- First on-line kidney machine is created.[3]
- John Ford personally films the movie The Battle of Midway.[5]
- Polyester is made first available.[3]
- Fermi at the University of Chicago produces the first controlled nuclear chain reaction.[3]
- V-2 is created by Germans.[3]
- September 6: Germans finally enter Stalingrad.[3]
- October 23-November 4: Battle of El Alamein.[3] The Germans are defeated in El Alamein.[6]
- November
- November 8: US General Eisenhower lands in North Africa and occupies Morocco and Algiers.[3]
- November 19: Russian troops defeat 22 German divisions at Stalingrad and begin the rout in the East.[3]
- Allied invasion of Tunisia.[3]
- Indiana Jones and George McHale go on a mission to Flensburg.[7][8]
Deaths[]
- Francis Edward Younghusband[3]
- Bronislaw Malinowski[9]
- June 28: Mysterious Anasazi-Indian[4]
- August 30: Kachina-Mann[4]
- Winter: Riley[4]
Behind the scenes[]
According to writer W. Haden Blackman no exact date was given to the non-canonical story Into the Great Unknown, but added that in the timeframe of Indiana Jones, the story has happen to seven or eight years after Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, setting it around 1942/1943.[10]
Appearances[]
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hunting for Treasure (Mentioned only)
- Indiana Jones und das Verschwundene Volk (Mentioned only)
Sources[]
- The World of Indiana Jones
- The World of John Ford (Non-fiction source)
Adolf Hitler's Marshall College entry on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)- Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide
- The Indiana Jones Handbook
Notes and references[]
- ↑ The Indiana Jones Handbook
- ↑ The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Verdun, September 1916"
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 The World of Indiana Jones
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Indiana Jones und das Verschwundene Volk
- ↑ The World of John Ford
- ↑ Adolf Hitler's Marshall College entry on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)
- ↑ Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide
- ↑ Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide places the Flensburg mission in 1942 while The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones mentions that Jones and McHale were in Flensburg at the war's end for some final action (May 1945), and that Jones hadn't been to Flensburg since World War I.
- ↑ The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hunting for Treasure
- ↑ @HadenBlackman Haden Blackman on Twitter
