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Arthur C. Clarke meets with students from the Marconi Wireless College in Colwyn Bay North Wales. Clarke was living a short walk from the training school which was one of only two in England training students to use wireless during the war.

Arthur C. Clarke , stationed at Colwyn Bay in North Wales, starts learning Morse Code, the beginning of his training in the use of radio.

Arthur C. Clarke sees the Boris Karloff movie "The Man with Nine Lives" about a scientist who can freeze and reanimate people.

Arthur C. Clarke writes "World of Tomorrow" for Walter Gillings "Tales of Wonder".

Arthur C. Clarke attends a Science Fiction Association meeting. Says it was a "full house" in his diary.

Arthur C. Clarke attends a Science Fiction Association meeting.

Arthur C. Clarke attends a Science Fiction Association meeting.

Arthur C. Clarke attends a Science Fiction Association meeting. Says goodbye to his friends expecting it to be his last meeting due to being posted in RAF.

First air-to-air combat, German airman killed by rifle fire from Allied aircraft. In February a machine-gun mounted on a French aircraft, Lieutenant Garros as pilot, first shot down a German aircraft.

The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA , after considering high-cost complaints of Army and Navy, recommended creation of Manufacturers Aircraft Association to effect cross-licensing of aeronautic patents. This was a milestone in preventing a virtual deadlock in aircraft construction because of patent infringement suits.

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