In the opposite direction, here is an examplehere is an example (one of presumably hundreds of others) of work that got cut short by the war:
https://academic.oup.com/qjmath/article-abstract/os-16/1/1/1565363?redirectedFrom=fulltext.
Read theThe dedication before the introduction. reads:
Flight-Lieutenant P. R. Taylor was missing, believed killed, on active service in November 1943. The editors express their thanks to Mr. J. E. Rees for arranging the paper from the original manuscript and to Professor Titchmarsh for revising and completing the argument.