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January 20, 2023

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1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1942nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 942nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 42nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1940s decade.

1942 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1942
MCMXLII
Ab urbe condita2695
Armenian calendar1391
ԹՎ ՌՅՂԱ
Assyrian calendar6692
Baháʼí calendar98–99
Balinese saka calendar1863–1864
Bengali calendar1349
Berber calendar2892
British Regnal year6 Geo. 6 – 7 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar2486
Burmese calendar1304
Byzantine calendar7450–7451
Chinese calendar辛巳年 (Metal Snake)
4638 or 4578
    — to —
壬午年 (Water Horse)
4639 or 4579
Coptic calendar1658–1659
Discordian calendar3108
Ethiopian calendar1934–1935
Hebrew calendar5702–5703
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1998–1999
 - Shaka Samvat1863–1864
 - Kali Yuga5042–5043
Holocene calendar11942
Igbo calendar942–943
Iranian calendar1320–1321
Islamic calendar1360–1361
Japanese calendarShōwa 17
(昭和１７年)
Javanese calendar1872–1873
Juche calendar31
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4275
Minguo calendarROC 31
民國31年
Nanakshahi calendar474
Thai solar calendar2485
Tibetan calendar阴金蛇年
(female Iron-Snake)
2068 or 1687 or 915
    — to —
阳水马年
(male Water-Horse)
2069 or 1688 or 916
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Events

Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.

 
Map of Europe at the height of German control in 1942, Britain remains the only country in Western Europe held by Allied forces

January

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February

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March

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April

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May

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June

Main article: June 1942
 
June 4: The Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū under attack by US aircraft at the Battle of Midway
  • June 1 – WWII:
  • June 4 – WWII: Reinhard Heydrich succumbs to wounds sustained on May 27, from Czechoslovakian paratroopers acting in Operation Anthropoid.
  • June 4–June 7 – WWII: Battle of Midway: The Japanese naval advance in the Pacific is halted.
  • June 5 – WWII: The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
  • June 7 – WWII:
    • Siege of Sevastopol: German forces of the 11th Army under General Erich von Manstein begin renowned infantry attacks against the fortress city of Sevastopol. The Germans advance cautiously behind air and artillery support. Manstein had enough firepower to destroy the Soviet fortifications, he has some 1,300 guns and Heavy Artillery Battalion 833 (including a Karl-Batterie with three howitzers of 54 cm nicknamed "Thor", "Odin" and "Loki"). Firing in support, the German 80 cm Schwerer Gustav railway gun fires seven shells.
    • Japanese forces invade the Aleutian Islands (the first invasion of American soil in 128 years).
  • June 8 – WWII: Attack on Sydney Harbour: The Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle are shelled by Japanese submarines. The eastern suburbs of both cities are damaged, and the east coast is blacked out.
  • June 9 – WWII: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice, in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
  • June 10 – WWII:
  • June 11 – WWII: German forces of the 15th Panzer Division together with the 90th Light Division reach El Adem. Panzer Army Africa captures the area around El Adem, and the 29th Indian Brigade, which has defended El Adem is almost wiped out by the Germans.
  • June 12 – WWII: The Holocaust: On her 13th birthday, Anna Frank makes the first entry in her new diary.
  • June 12–15 – WWII: Operation Harpoon: A Allied convoy under Admiral Alban Curteis leaves from Gibraltar with 6 merchant ships escorted by the British battleship HMS Malaya, aircraft carriers HMS Argus and HMS Eagle, 4 cruisers and 17 destroyers to Malta. Two of the six merchant ships completes the journey, at the cost of several Allied warships.
  • June 13 – WWII:
    • German forces of the 21st Panzer Division advance from the west and attack the British tanks of the 22nd Armoured Brigade. Erwin Rommel demonstrates superiority in tactics, compressing the British armoured forces between two Panzer Divisions of the Panzer Army Africa and the Italian Ariete and Trieste Divisions. By the end of the day, the British tank strength is reduced from 300 tanks to about 70. Rommel establishes armour superiority and surrounds the "Knightsbridge" positions. Due to the many losses, this defeat becomes known as "Black Saturday" to the Eighth Army.[16]
    • German scientists under Ernst Steinhoff at Peenemünde Army Research Center tests a 12-ton rocket (known later as the V-2 rocket) with a one-ton warhead.
    • The United States opens its Office of War Information, a propaganda center.
  • June 14 – WWII: The British Eighth Army under General Neil Ritchie is forced with two divisions to withdraw from the Gazala Line. The defenders of El-Adem and two neighbouring boxes hold out against the Germans. The South African 1st Division retreats along the coast road, practically intact. General Claude Auchinleck orders Ritchie to hold the line south-east from Acroma (west of Tobruk) through El-Adem to Bir El Gubi.[17]
  • June 15 – WWII: Erwin Rommel sends German forces from the 21st Panzer Division and 90th Light Division to attack the defensive boxes at El-Adem and Sidi Rezegh. In the evening, Point 650 box at El-Adem is overrun.
  • June 17–21 – WWII: Siege of Tobruk: German forces of Panzer Army Africa led by Erwin Rommel attack Tobruk with massed air support. On June 21, they penetrate a weak spot on the eastern defensive perimeter, capturing the port and 33,000 prisoners.
  • June 18 – WWII: The SS surrounds the church where Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík, the assassins of Reinhard Heydrich, are hiding. Kubiš is fatally wounded in the ensuing shootout, and Gabčík commits suicide to avoid capture.
  • June 21 – WWII: The Japanese submarine I-25 surfaces off the US Pacific Coast and bombards Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia River. The fort itself is not damaged, though a nearby baseball field is destroyed.
  • June 23 – WWII:
    • Erwin Rommel arrives in Bardia and gives the 90th Light Division orders to attack eastwards. The British 8th Army withdraws to Mersa Matruh, where the Indian 10th Division, elements of the Indian 5th Division and the British 50th Division takes up positions.
    • The experimental early-type nuclear reactor L-IV has an accident, becoming the first nuclear accident in history and consisting of a steam explosion and reactor fire in Leipzig.
  • June 26–29 – WWII: Battle of Mersa Matruh: German forces of the Panzer Army Africa under Erwin Rommel pursues the Eighth Army as it retreats into Egypt. On June 28, the fortress port of Mersa Matruh and more than 6,000 prisoners are captured, along with plenty of supplies and equipment.
  • June 27 – WWII: Allied Convoy PQ 17 sails from Iceland, with 35 merchant ships and 3 passenger ships that have been refitted for rescuing the crews of torpedoed ships. There's also one tanker, 6 destroyers and 13 smaller ships for close escort. The convoy is destined for the Soviet port of Archangelsk.
  • June 28 – WWII: Operation Blue: German forces of Army Group South under Generalfeldmarshall Fedor von Bock drive to Stalingrad and the Baku oil fields. Spearheads of the 4th Panzer Army under General Hermann Hoth drive towards Voronezh, advancing nearly 50 km on day one. They crossed two rivers and cut the link one between the Soviet 13th and 40th armies.
  • June 30 – WWII:
    • German forces of the 11th Army under General Erich von Manstein take Sevastopol, although fighting rages until July 4. The city is evacuated by the Soviets, some 90,000 prisoners are taken and von Manstein is promoted to Field Marshal.
    • German forces of Panzer Army Africa under Erwin Rommel approach the Alamein positions, only 106 km from Alexandria. The Axis forces are exhausted and Rommel has supply problems, because the RAF attacks his supply lines.

July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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Date unknown

Births

Births
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February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Deaths

Deaths
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

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June

July

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September

 
Blessed Adam Bargielski

October

November

December

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calendar98 99Balinese saka calendar1863 1864Bengali calendar1349Berber calendar2892British Regnal year6 Geo 6 7 Geo 6Buddhist calendar2486Burmese calendar1304Byzantine calendar7450 7451Chinese calendar辛巳年 Metal Snake 4638 or 4578 to 壬午年 Water Horse 4639 or 4579Coptic calendar1658 1659Discordian calendar3108Ethiopian calendar1934 1935Hebrew calendar5702 5703Hindu calendars Vikram Samvat1998 1999 Shaka Samvat1863 1864 Kali Yuga5042 5043Holocene calendar11942Igbo calendar942 943Iranian calendar1320 1321Islamic calendar1360 1361Japanese calendarShōwa 17 昭和１７年 Javanese calendar1872 1873Juche calendar31Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 daysKorean calendar4275Minguo calendarROC 31民國31年Nanakshahi calendar474Thai solar calendar2485Tibetan calendar阴金蛇年 female Iron Snake 2068 or 1687 or 915 to 阳水马年 male Water Horse 2069 or 1688 or 916Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1942 Contents 1 Events 1 1 January 1 2 February 1 3 March 1 4 April 1 5 May 1 6 June 1 7 July 1 8 August 1 9 September 1 10 October 1 11 November 1 12 December 1 13 Date unknown 2 Births 2 1 January 2 2 February 2 3 March 2 4 April 2 5 May 2 6 June 2 7 July 2 8 August 2 9 September 2 10 October 2 11 November 2 12 December 3 Deaths 3 1 January 3 2 February 3 3 March 3 4 April 3 5 May 3 6 June 3 7 July 3 8 August 3 9 September 3 10 October 3 11 November 3 12 December 4 ReferencesEvents EditBelow the events of World War II have the WWII prefix Map of Europe at the height of German control in 1942 Britain remains the only country in Western Europe held by Allied forces January Edit Main article January 1942 January 1 WWII The Declaration by United Nations is signed by China the United Kingdom the United States the Soviet Union and 22 other nations in which they agree not to make any separate peace with the Axis powers January 5 WWII Two prisoners British officer Airey Neave and Dutch officer Anthony Luteyn escape from Colditz Castle in Germany After travelling for three days they reach the Swiss border 1 January 7 WWII Battle of Slim River Japanese forces of the 5th Division supported by tanks sweep through sixteen miles of British defenses shattering the exhausted 11th Indian Division and inflicting some 3 000 casualties 2 Operation Typhoon the German attempt to take Moscow ends in failure 3 January 11 WWII Dutch East Indies campaign Japan declares war on the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies Japanese forces invade Borneo and Celebes Malayan Campaign The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur the capital of the Federated Malay States 4 January 13 Heinkel test pilot Helmut Schenk becomes the first person to escape from a stricken aircraft with an ejection seat Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile that would be 30 lighter than a conventional car January 14 WWII Second Happy Time the German submarine commanders name for Operation Paukenschlag Operation Drumbeat the phase in the Battle of the Atlantic during which German submarines are successful in attacking Allied shipping along the East Coast of the United States opens early this morning when German submarine U 123 under the command of Reinhard Hardegen sinks a Norwegian tanker within sight of Long Island before entering New York Harbor and sinking a British tanker off Sandy Hook the following night as she leaves heading south along the coast U boat successes continue until around June 12 The Sikorsky R 4 first flies in the United States it will become the first mass produced helicopter January 16 American film actress Carole Lombard and her mother are among all 22 killed aboard TWA Flight 3 when the Douglas DC 3 plane crashes into Potosi Mountain near Las Vegas while she is returning from a tour to promote the sale of war bonds January 17 WWII South African forces of the British 8th Army conquer the Halfaya Pass Hellfire Pass The Halfaya garrison of 4 200 men of the Italian 55th Division Savona and 2 100 Germans surrender January 19 WWII Japanese forces invade Burma The following Commands of the United States Eighth Air Force are established VIII Bomber Command initially at Langley Field in Virginia and VIII Fighter Command at Selfridge Field in Michigan January 20 The Holocaust Nazis at the Wannsee Conference in Berlin decide that the Final Solution Endlosung to the Jewish problem is deportations to extermination camps January 21 WWII Erwin Rommel launches his new offensive in Cyrenaica January 23 WWII The Battle of Rabaul begins Before dawn 5 000 troops of Japan s elite South Seas Detachment storm ashore at Rabaul With control of the air and support from the guns of their own ships the Japanese overwhelm the small Australian garrison the majority is either killed or captured January 25 WWII German forces under Erwin Rommel of Panzer Group Afrika reaches Msus General Alfred Godwin Austin orders the 4th Indian Division from the British 13th Corps to evacuate Benghazi Thailand declares war on the United States and the United Kingdom January 26 WWII The first American forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland January 31 WWII Malayan Campaign The last organized Allied forces leave British Malaya ending the 54 day campaign and the Johor Singapore Causeway is severed February Edit Main article February 1942 February 1 WWII Marshalls Gilberts raids Admiral William Halsey Jr sends airstrikes from the carrier USS Enterprise against Kwajalein Taroa Wotje in the Marshall Islands At the same time cruisers and destroyers bombard Taroa and Wotje The strikes inflict light to moderate damage on the three islands naval garrisons sink three warships and damage several others including the light cruiser Katori and damage 15 Japanese aircraft Further south the carrier USS Yorktown attacks Jaluit Mili and Makin in the Gilbert Islands They inflict moderate damage to the Japanese naval installations and destroy three aircraft The Kriegsmarine introduces the M4 German Navy 4 rotor Enigma machine for U boat traffic blinding Allied cryptanalysts to their radio signals for most of the year The Command staff of the United States Eighth Air Force reaches England Mao Zedong makes a speech on Reform in Learning the Party and Literature starting the Yan an Rectification Movement in the Chinese Communist Party February 3 WWII Rommel suspends his offensive in Cyrenaica February 7 United States Maritime Commission fleet operations are transferred to the War Shipping Administration lasting until September 1 1946 February 8 WWII Battle of Singapore Japanese forces of the 5th Division and 18th Division some 23 000 men begin to cross the Johor Strait and attack the Australian 22nd Brigade some 3 000 men at Singapore Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war Antonio oscar Carmona is elected president of Portugal Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States February 9 The ocean liner SS Normandie catches fire while being converted into the troopship USS Lafayette AP 53 for WWII at Pier 88 in New York City she capsizes early the following morning February 11 13 WWII Operation Cerberus A Kriegsmarine German navy squadron comprising the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen and their escort dash from Brest through the English Channel to German ports the British fail to sink any of them February 14 18 Battle of Bilin River Indian forces of the 17th Division under General John Snyth are ordered to halt the Japanese advance but are outflanked and retreat to the Sittang River February 14 WWII Battle of Palembang Japanese paratroopers 240 men are dropped near Palembang and capture the oil refinery complex undamaged Dutch forces counter attack and manage to retake the complex but take heavy losses A planned demolition fails to do any serious damage to the refinery but the oil stores are set ablaze The SS Vyner Brooke Scottish steamship is bombed and sunk by Japanese planes while evacuating nurses and wounded servicemen from Singapore Rescue boats with many survivors reach Bangka Island February 15 WWII Fall of Singapore Commonwealth forces under General Arthur Percival surrender to the Japanese 25th Army About 80 000 British Indian Australian and local troops become prisoners of war joining the 50 000 soldiers taken in the Malayan campaign February 16 WWII Bangka Island Massacre Japanese soldiers machine gun 22 Australian Army nurses and 60 Australian and British soldiers and crew who have survived the sinking of SS Vyner Brooke February 18 WWII Japanese occupation of Singapore Sook Ching Japanese forces begin the systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among Chinese Singaporeans More than 200 American sailors die in Newfoundland when USS Truxtun runs aground near Chambers Cove and USS Pollux runs aground at Lawn Point February 19 WWII Bombing of Darwin The Japanese 1st Air Fleet under Admiral Chuichi Nagumo bombs Darwin Australia This force comprises the aircraft carriers Akagi Kaga Hiryu and Sōryu and a powerful force of escorting surface ships During the attack 188 planes led by Mitsuo Fuchida destroy 11 vessels and wreck a lot of the harbor infrastructure killing some 240 people A returning Japanese fighter plane crashes on Melville Island Australia and its pilot Hajime Toyoshima becomes the first Japanese captured on Australian soil when indigenous resident Matthias Ulungura takes him prisoner President Franklin D Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 allowing the United States military to define areas as exclusionary zones These zones affect the Japanese on the West Coast and Germans and Italians primarily on the East Coast February 19 23 WWII Battle of Sittang Bridge Indian forces of the 17th Division are ordered to defend the Sittang Bridge but eventually blow up the bridge to halt the Japanese advance to Rangoon Survivors of the 17th Division some 3 500 soldiers swam and ferried themselves over the Sittang River February 20 Lieutenant Edward O Hare becomes America s first U S Navy flying ace of the war February 21 WWII Invasion of Sumatra Japanese forces of the 38th Division under General Tadayoshi Sano capture Tanjungkarang airfield which is put to work for air operations against Java February 22 WWII General George Marshall transmits a direct order to General MacArthur in President Roosevelt s name ordering MacArthur himself to turn over command of the Philippines to a subordinate and report to Australia to assume command of the large American force being built up there The orders are worded to allow MacArthur to choose the exact moment of his departure for various reasons he will not leave until March 11 February 23 WWII Japanese submarine I 17 fires 17 high explosive shells toward an oil refinery near Santa Barbara California causing little damage February 24 Struma disaster MV Struma carrying Jewish refugees from Axis allied Romania to British administered Palestine is torpedoed and sunk by Soviet submarine Shch 213 killing about 791 men women and children with only 1 survivor Propaganda The Voice of America begins broadcasting Internment of Japanese Canadians is ordered 5 February 25 Battle of Los Angeles Over 1 400 AA shells are fired at an unidentified slow moving object probably a meteorological balloon in the skies over Los Angeles The appearance of the object triggers an immediate wartime blackout over most of Southern California with thousands of air raid wardens being deployed throughout the city At least 5 deaths are related to the incident Despite the several hour barrages no planes are downed February 26 The 14th Academy Awards ceremony is held in Los Angeles How Green Was My Valley wins Best Picture February 27 WWII Battle of the Java Sea An allied ABDA task force of 14 vessels under Dutch command trying to stem a Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies is defeated by a 19 vessel Japanese task force in the Java Sea 2 300 sailors die including the commander Admiral Karel Doorman Japanese attain naval hegemony in East Asia The USS Langley first aircraft carrier of the United States Navy is attacked by 9 Japanese bombers while ferrying a cargo of USAAF P 40 fighters to Java Langley is so badly damaged that she has to be scuttled to avoid falling into Japanese hands March Edit Main article March 1942 March 1 WWII Japanese forces of the 2nd Division land in Port of Merak on western Java with the intention to advance on Batavia March 4 WWII Operation K The Japanese launch an unsuccessful attack carried out by two Kawanishi H8K Emily flying boats at Pearl Harbor This is the longest distance ever undertaken by a two plane bombing mission and one of the longest bombing sorties ever planned without fighter escort March 5 WWII Japanese forces of the 16th Army under General Hitoshi Imamura enter triumphantly the Dutch colonial capital of Batavia without opposition March 6 WWII Yugoslav Partisans operating in Nazi occupied Serbia assassinate Đorđe Kosmajac in Belgrade March 8 13 Invasion of Salamaua Lae Japanese forces invade and occupy the Salamaua Lae area in the Territory of New Guinea to establish an air base for the support of further operations in the region A small Australian garrison some 200 men in the area withdraws to Wau after executing demolition operations to prevent the use of their facilities for the invaders In response to the Japanese landings Task Force 17 with aircraft carriers Lexington and Yorktown led by Admiral Wilson Brown attacks the invading naval forces and destroys three transports and damages the cruiser Yubari and several other ships March 8 WWII Japanese forces of the 33rd Division under General Shōzō Sakurai capture Rangoon The Allies manage to escape and try to make a stand in central Burma March 9 WWII Executive order 9082 February 28 1942 comes into effect reorganizing the United States Army into three major commands Army Ground Forces Army Air Forces and Services of Supply later redesignated Army Service Forces with Henry H Arnold as Commanding General of the United States Army Air Forces The Dutch Commander in Chief of the Allied forces on Java General Ter Poorten surrenders to the Japanese Ter Poorten s surrender announcement is made without consulting the commanders of the British and US forces who want to continue the war March 11 WWII Douglas MacArthur s escape from the Philippines U S General Douglas MacArthur his family and key members of his staff are evacuated by PT boat under cover of evening darkness from Corregidor in the Philippines Command of U S forces in the Philippines passes to Major General Jonathan M Wainwright March 12 WWII American troops land at Noumea on New Caledonia to build a base and garrison the island This landing includes the first Seabees that are out on active service The Seabees are Naval Construction battalions and their name comes from the C and B in construction battalion 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 19 30 WWII Battle of Toungoo Chinese forces under General Dai Anlan set up a perimeter around Taungoo The Japanese 55th Division bombards the positions on the west bank of the Sittaung River with artillery The Japanese 56th Division links up with the 55th and crosses the river Taungoo is surrounded and finally taken while the remnants of the Chinese 200th Division withdraws to new defensive positions at Yedashe 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 6 March 22 WWII Second Battle of Sirte Escorting warships of a British convoy to Malta ward off a much more powerful Regia Marina Italian Navy squadron north of the Gulf of Sirte March 23 WWII The Germans burn down the Ukrainian village of Yelino Koriukivka Raion killing 296 civilians 7 March 24 The evacuation of Polish nationals from the Soviet Union begins It is conducted in two phases until April 5 and between August 10 and 30 1942 by sea from Krasnovodsk to Pahlavi Anzali and to a lesser extent overland from Ashkabad to Mashhad In all 115 000 people are evacuated 37 000 of them civilians 18 000 children 7 of the number of Polish citizens originally exiled to the Soviet Union 8 March 25 26 The Holocaust First mass transport of Jews to Auschwitz concentration camp 997 women and girls from Poprad transit camp in the Slovak Republic March 28 WWII St Nazaire Raid Operation Chariot British Commandos raid Saint Nazaire on the coast of Western France to put its dockyard facilities out of action Bombing of Lubeck in World War II St Mary s Church Lubeck is destroyed by an Allied bombing raid March 29 WWII Following a coup d etat the Free Republic of Nias is proclaimed by a group of freed Nazi German prisoners in the Indonesian island of Nias the republic exists for less than a month until the island is fully occupied by Japanese troops March 31 WWII Battle of Christmas Island Japanese troops occupy Christmas Island without resistance following a mutiny by British Indian Army troops against their British officers April Edit Main article April 1942 April The Holocaust the Nazi German extermination camp Sobibor opens in occupied Poland on the outskirts of the town of Sobibor Between April 1942 and October 1943 at least 160 000 people are killed here 77 Uzbek prisoners of war held at Amersfoort concentration camp in the occupied Netherlands are shot by Nazi German guards 24 of their compatriots having previously died there as a result of forced starvation 9 April 3 WWII Japanese forces begin the last phase of the Battle of Bataan an all out assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula April 5 WWII Easter Sunday Raid Aircraft of the Japanese Navy attack Colombo Ceylon Sri Lanka Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island April 9 WWII Battle of Bataan The Bataan Peninsula falls American and Filipino forces some 75 000 soldiers surrender to the Japanese 14th Army under General Masaharu Homma Bataan Death March American and Filipino prisoners of war are forced to march to San Fernando to Capas some 65 miles During the march some 15 000 soldiers are killed by severe physical abuse and wanton killings The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon Sri Lanka the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Hermes 95 and Royal Australian Navy destroyer HMAS Vampire are sunk off the country s East Coast April 10 The Holocaust Construction of the Nazi German extermination camp Treblinka II commences in occupied Poland near the village of Treblinka Between July 23 1942 and October 1943 around 850 000 people are killed here 10 more than 800 000 of whom are Jews 11 April 13 WWII Japanese forces of the 56th Division under General Masao Watanabe cross the Sittang River and defeat the Chinese 6th Corps in the Karen Hills area battles of Mawchi The United States Federal Communications Commission s minimum programming time required of television stations is cut from 15 hours to 4 hours a week during the war April 14 WWII British submarine HMS Upholder is probably sunk by Axis forces in the Mediterranean WWII German submarine U 85 is sunk by USS Roper off North Carolina April 15 WWII Award of the George Cross to Malta King George VI awards the George Cross to the island of Malta to mark the Siege of Malta saying To honor her brave people I award the George Cross to the Island Fortress of Malta to bear witness to a heroism and a devotion that will long be famous in history from January 1 to July 24 there is only one 24 hour period during which no bombs fall on this tiny island April 17 WWII Henri Giraud French general captured in 1940 escapes from Konigstein Fortress near Dresden He lowers himself down the cliffside fortress with a 50 meter rope he made with odds and ends smuggled in to him After traveling for three days Giraud safely reaches the Swiss border April 18 WWII Doolittle Raid Lieutenant Colonel James Jimmy Doolittle leads a bombing mission against Japan along with 79 airmen of the US Air force flying 16 B 25 Mitchell land based bombers They take off from the USS Hornet in the Pacific Ocean some 700 miles 1 126 km east of Tokyo Thirteen of the B 25 bombers fly over Tokyo and drop their bombs on oil storage facilities factories and military targets The other three B 25s drop their bombs over Yokohama Nagoya and Kobe All but one of the B 25s ran out of fuel before reaching friendly forces in western China and is forced to land in Japanese occupied China With the support of Chinese farmers 71 airmen reach free China Eight airmen are captured by the Japanese who execute four of them in retaliation for the raid April 20 WWII Operation Calendar The American aircraft carrier USS Wasp escorted by the British battlecruiser HMS Renown two cruisers and six destroyers brings 47 planes Spitfires to Malta They are successfully delivered but 30 of them are immediately destroyed on the ground by German bombers Within 48 hours all planes are destroyed 12 April 23 WWII Exeter becomes the first historic English city bombed as part of the Baedeker Blitz in retaliation for the British bombing of Lubeck Exeter born William Temple is enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury April 25 Princess Elizabeth registers for war service in the U K April 26 WWII The Reichstag meets for the last time dissolving itself and proclaiming Adolf Hitler the Supreme Judge of the German People granting him the power of life and death over every German citizen A gas and coal dust explosion at Benxihu Colliery in Manchukuo kills as many as 1 549 workers the world s all time worst mining disaster April 27 WWII A national plebiscite is held in Canada on the issue of conscription The Jewish Star of David is required wearing for all Jews in the Netherlands and Belgium Jews in other Nazi controlled countries have already been wearing it April 29 WWII Burma campaign Japanese forces of the 15 Army under General Shōjirō Iida capture Lashio The allies are in full retreat An explosion at a chemical factory in Tessenderlo Belgium leaves 200 dead and 1 000 injured May Edit Main article May 1942 May Operation Pluto The plan to construct oil pipelines under the English Channel between England and France is tested in the River Medway May 3 4 WWII Tulagi is invaded by Japanese forces in the British Solomon Islands of the South Pacific as part of Operation Mo May 5 WWII Battle of Madagascar Operation Ironclad begins when British forces land on the Vichy French colony of Madagascar On May 7 the northern city of Diego Suarez surrenders May 7 WWII On Corregidor the last American and Filipino forces in the Philippines under command of 2LT Robert L Obourn 92nd Coast Artillery Regiment G Battery from Fort Mills surrender to the Japanese as directed by Lt Gen Jonathan M Wainwright the overall commander 13 14 May 8 WWII The Battle of the Kerch Peninsula The German 11th Army begins Operation Trappenjagd Bustard Hunt and destroys the bridgehead of the three Soviet Armies 44th 47th and 51st defending the Kerch Peninsula in the eastern part of the Crimea 15 The Battle of the Coral Sea first battle in naval history where 2 enemy fleets fight without seeing each other s fleets ends in an Allied victory The Battle of the Kerch Peninsula German and Romanian forces launch Unternehmen Trappenjagd Operation Bustard Hunt aiming at defeating the Soviet Crimean Front defending the Kerch Peninsula The battle ends in an Axis victory May 8 9 WWII At night gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands revolt The mutiny is crushed and 3 soldiers are executed the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny May 9 WWII Operation Bowery The USS Wasp and HMS Eagle bring 61 Spitfires to Malta Club Runs The fighter aircraft are desperately needed to bolster the island s defense against German Luftwaffe air raids May 12 WWII Second Battle of Kharkiv In the eastern Ukraine the Soviet Army initiates a major offensive to capture the city of Kharkov from the German Army only to be encircled and destroyed Japanese minelayer Okinoshima is sunk by American submarine USS S 42 May 15 WWII In the United States a bill creating the Women s Auxiliary Army Corps WAAC is signed into law May 20 The first African American seamen are taken into the United States Navy May 21 WWII Mexico declares war against Nazi Germany after the sinking of the Mexican tanker Faja de Oro by German submarine U 160 off Key West May 23 WWII German forces of the 6th Army under General Friedrich Paulus and the 1st Panzer Army led by General Ewald von Kleist meet up at Balakleya southeast of Kharkov and encircle most of the Soviet 6th and 9th armies capturing a 250 000 strong Soviet force inside the pocket May 26 WWII Battle of Gazala German forces of Panzer Army Africa led by General Erwin Rommel launch a frontal attack on the central Gazala positions During the day the bulk of Rommel s forces move forward giving the British the impression that this is the main Axis assault When night falls the armoured formations turn south in a sweeping move around the southern end of the Gazala line Battle of Bir Hakeim The Free French and British troops slow the German advance in North Africa The Anglo Soviet Treaty of 1942 to help establish a military and political alliance between the USSR and the British Empire is signed in London by foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov May 27 WWII Operation Anthropoid Czech paratroopers attempt to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich in Prague and succeed in wounding him May 29 Thai spelling reform of 1942 is initiated by the government of Prime Minister Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram with his office announcing a simplification of the Thai alphabet The announcement is published in the Royal Gazette on June 1 The reform is canceled by the government of Khuang Aphaiwong on August 2 1944 May 30 31 WWII Bombing of Cologne British RAF Bomber Command s Operation Millennium its first 1 000 bomber raid with associated fires make 13 000 families homeless and kills around 475 people mostly civilians 3 330 non residential buildings are destroyed May 31 June 1 WWII Attack on Sydney Harbour Japanese midget submarines infiltrate Sydney Harbour in Australia in an attempt to attack Allied warships June Edit Main article June 1942 June 4 The Japanese aircraft carrierHiryu under attack by US aircraft at the Battle of Midway June 1 WWII Mexico declares war on Germany Italy and Japan The Grand Coulee Dam is finished on the Columbia River June 4 WWII Reinhard Heydrich succumbs to wounds sustained on May 27 from Czechoslovakian paratroopers acting in Operation Anthropoid June 4 June 7 WWII Battle of Midway The Japanese naval advance in the Pacific is halted June 5 WWII The United States declares war on Bulgaria Hungary and Romania June 7 WWII Siege of Sevastopol German forces of the 11th Army under General Erich von Manstein begin renowned infantry attacks against the fortress city of Sevastopol The Germans advance cautiously behind air and artillery support Manstein had enough firepower to destroy the Soviet fortifications he has some 1 300 guns and Heavy Artillery Battalion 833 including a Karl Batterie with three howitzers of 54 cm nicknamed Thor Odin and Loki Firing in support the German 80 cm Schwerer Gustav railway gun fires seven shells Japanese forces invade the Aleutian Islands the first invasion of American soil in 128 years June 8 WWII Attack on Sydney Harbour The Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle are shelled by Japanese submarines The eastern suburbs of both cities are damaged and the east coast is blacked out June 9 WWII Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich June 10 WWII Free French forces some 2 700 men evacuate Bir Hakeim and escape through a minefield where they are picked up by British patrols of the 7th Armoured Division Lidice massacre The Gestapo massacres 173 male residents of Lidice Czechoslovakia in retaliation for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich June 11 WWII German forces of the 15th Panzer Division together with the 90th Light Division reach El Adem Panzer Army Africa captures the area around El Adem and the 29th Indian Brigade which has defended El Adem is almost wiped out by the Germans June 12 WWII The Holocaust On her 13th birthday Anna Frank makes the first entry in her new diary June 12 15 WWII Operation Harpoon A Allied convoy under Admiral Alban Curteis leaves from Gibraltar with 6 merchant ships escorted by the British battleship HMS Malaya aircraft carriers HMS Argus and HMS Eagle 4 cruisers and 17 destroyers to Malta Two of the six merchant ships completes the journey at the cost of several Allied warships June 13 WWII German forces of the 21st Panzer Division advance from the west and attack the British tanks of the 22nd Armoured Brigade Erwin Rommel demonstrates superiority in tactics compressing the British armoured forces between two Panzer Divisions of the Panzer Army Africa and the Italian Ariete and Trieste Divisions By the end of the day the British tank strength is reduced from 300 tanks to about 70 Rommel establishes armour superiority and surrounds the Knightsbridge positions Due to the many losses this defeat becomes known as Black Saturday to the Eighth Army 16 German scientists under Ernst Steinhoff at Peenemunde Army Research Center tests a 12 ton rocket known later as the V 2 rocket with a one ton warhead The United States opens its Office of War Information a propaganda center June 14 WWII The British Eighth Army under General Neil Ritchie is forced with two divisions to withdraw from the Gazala Line The defenders of El Adem and two neighbouring boxes hold out against the Germans The South African 1st Division retreats along the coast road practically intact General Claude Auchinleck orders Ritchie to hold the line south east from Acroma west of Tobruk through El Adem to Bir El Gubi 17 June 15 WWII Erwin Rommel sends German forces from the 21st Panzer Division and 90th Light Division to attack the defensive boxes at El Adem and Sidi Rezegh In the evening Point 650 box at El Adem is overrun June 17 21 WWII Siege of Tobruk German forces of Panzer Army Africa led by Erwin Rommel attack Tobruk with massed air support On June 21 they penetrate a weak spot on the eastern defensive perimeter capturing the port and 33 000 prisoners June 18 WWII The SS surrounds the church where Jan Kubis and Jozef Gabcik the assassins of Reinhard Heydrich are hiding Kubis is fatally wounded in the ensuing shootout and Gabcik commits suicide to avoid capture June 21 WWII The Japanese submarine I 25 surfaces off the US Pacific Coast and bombards Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia River The fort itself is not damaged though a nearby baseball field is destroyed June 23 WWII Erwin Rommel arrives in Bardia and gives the 90th Light Division orders to attack eastwards The British 8th Army withdraws to Mersa Matruh where the Indian 10th Division elements of the Indian 5th Division and the British 50th Division takes up positions The experimental early type nuclear reactor L IV has an accident becoming the first nuclear accident in history and consisting of a steam explosion and reactor fire in Leipzig June 26 29 WWII Battle of Mersa Matruh German forces of the Panzer Army Africa under Erwin Rommel pursues the Eighth Army as it retreats into Egypt On June 28 the fortress port of Mersa Matruh and more than 6 000 prisoners are captured along with plenty of supplies and equipment June 27 WWII Allied Convoy PQ 17 sails from Iceland with 35 merchant ships and 3 passenger ships that have been refitted for rescuing the crews of torpedoed ships There s also one tanker 6 destroyers and 13 smaller ships for close escort The convoy is destined for the Soviet port of Archangelsk June 28 WWII Operation Blue German forces of Army Group South under Generalfeldmarshall Fedor von Bock drive to Stalingrad and the Baku oil fields Spearheads of the 4th Panzer Army under General Hermann Hoth drive towards Voronezh advancing nearly 50 km on day one They crossed two rivers and cut the link one between the Soviet 13th and 40th armies June 30 WWII German forces of the 11th Army under General Erich von Manstein take Sevastopol although fighting rages until July 4 The city is evacuated by the Soviets some 90 000 prisoners are taken and von Manstein is promoted to Field Marshal German forces of Panzer Army Africa under Erwin Rommel approach the Alamein positions only 106 km from Alexandria The Axis forces are exhausted and Rommel has supply problems because the RAF attacks his supply lines July Edit Main article July 1942 July The Holocaust Inmates of Westerbork transit camp in the occupied Netherlands begin to be shipped to Nazi extermination camps From now until 1944 around 107 000 mostly Jewish from here will be killed July 1 27 WWII First Battle of El Alamein British forces prevent a second advance by Axis forces into Egypt The 15th and 21st Panzer Divisions are halted and Erwin Rommel orders his forces to regroup The panzer strength of the German Afrika Korps has been reduced to only 26 vehicles 18 July 3 WWII Guadalcanal occupied only by aborigines falls to the Japanese Naval construction force deployed to construct an airfield on the island July 4 WWII in the European Theater of Operations Twenty four ships are sunk by German bombers and submarines after Convoy PQ 17 to the Soviet Union is scattered in the Arctic Ocean to evade the German battleship Tirpitz The United States Eighth Air Force inauspiciously flies its first mission in Europe using borrowed British planes and bombs targets in the Netherlands such as De Kooy Airfield attached to the Den Helder Naval Base Three of six aircraft return 19 For this mission Captain Charles C Kegelman is the first member of the Force to be awarded the U S Distinguished Flying Cross 20 July 5 German forces of the 4th Panzer Army under General Hermann Hoth reach the Don River near Voronezh and become embroiled in the battle to capture the city July 6 The Holocaust Anne Frank s family goes into hiding in an attic above her father s office in an Amsterdam warehouse July 7 German forces of the 4th Panzer Army reach the outskirts of Voronezh but the Soviet army mounts a successful counterattack that ties up Hoth s forces for days July 8 Turkish prime minister Refik Saydam dies while working in the office For one day he is succeeded by Ahmet Fikri Tuzer July 9 Sukru Saracoglu forms the new 13th government in Turkey July 13 WWII U boats sink three merchant ships in the Gulf of St Lawrence July 14 WWII Bastille Day Gaullist demonstrations in Vichy France 2 women are shot dead by members of the fascist French Popular Party PPF in Marseille Germany introduces the Ostvolk Medal for Soviet personnel in the Wehrmacht July 16 The Holocaust By order of the Vichy France government headed by Pierre Laval French police officers round up 13 000 20 000 Jews and imprison them in the Winter Velodrome Georges Begue and others escape from the Mauzac prison camp July 18 WWII The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using only its jet engines for the first time July 19 WWII Battle of the Atlantic German Grand Admiral Karl Donitz orders the last U boats to withdraw from there the United States Atlantic coast positions in response to an effective American convoy system July 21 WWII The Japanese establish a beachhead on the north coast of New Guinea in the Buna Gona area a small Australian force begins a rearguard action on the Kokoda Track campaign July 22 WWII The Holocaust The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins 21 July 23 WWII Adolf Hitler issues Directive 45 ordering the seizure of the Black Sea coast down to Batum and taking the oilfields of Maikop Grozny and Baku The Holocaust The gas chambers at Treblinka extermination camp begin operation killing 6 500 Jews newly arrived from the Warsaw Ghetto July 25 WWII Battle of Kalach German forces of the 6th Army under General Friedrich Paulus attack the Stalingrad Front and manages to surround part of the Soviet 62nd and 64th armies in the Kalach Pocket July 29 The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union institutes the Order of Suvorov and Order of Kutuzov and reinstates the Order of Alexander Nevsky July 30 WWII WAVES Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service the United States Naval Reserve Women s Reserve is signed into law The SS Robert E Lee is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico by U 166 which is itself sunk by the escorting patrol craft July 31 The Oxford Committee for Famine Relief Oxfam is founded in England August Edit Main article August 1942 August 3 15 WWII Operation Pedestal A British convoy of 14 merchant ships with a massive escort of two battleships 4 aircraft carriers 7 cruisers 32 destroyers and smaller ships commanded by Admiral Edward Neville Syfret sets sail to Malta under relentless attacks by day and night from enemy submarines aircraft and Axis surface forces The 55 000 tons of food and fuel delivery by this convoy saves Malta from surrender and allows Malta based aircraft and submarines to resume their attacks against Rommel s supply lines August 4 WWII Operation Letica An assassination attempt on Serbian fascist Minister of Finance Dusan Letica by a group Yugoslav Resistance fighters fails citation needed August 5 WWII German forces of the 4th Panzer Army under General Hermann Hoth resume their advance and reach Abganerovo 70 km southwest of Stalingrad They are stopped by the Soviet 64th Army under General Vasily Chuikov who defend the southern approach to Stalingrad August 7 WWII Guadalcanal Campaign The U S Navy and the U S Marine Corps start the first American offensive of the war with an amphibious landing on the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands August 8 WWII Battle of Savo Island The Japanese Imperial Navy under Admiral Gunichi Mikawa wins a spectacular victory over the US Navy and the Australian Navy at Savo Island Five cruisers and one destroyer are sunk Mikawa s decision to withdraw under cover of the night rather than attempt to destroy the Allied invasion transports is primarily because of a possible Allied carrier strike against his fleet WWII Allied North Atlantic convoy SC 94 loses 10 ships as the first to be heavily attacked by U boats resuming mid Atlantic wolf pack attacks through the climactic winter of 1942 43 22 WWII In Washington D C six German saboteurs are executed for their role in the failed mission Operation Pastorius 2 others are cooperative and receive sentences of life imprisonment instead being freed a few years after the end of the war August 9 Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces Start led by the goalkeeper Nikolai Trusevich play football against the German Luftwaffe team Flakelf in Nazi occupied Kyiv Against all odds they win 5 3 Eight of them are later arrested and tortured and at least four are killed Leningrad premiere of Shostakovich s Symphony No 7 with the city still under siege August 11 Hedy Lamarr s and her friend George Antheil s frequency hopping system for radio controlled torpedoes is granted a patent under U S Patent 2 292 387 23 In 1962 at the time of the Cuban missile crisis an updated version of their design will at last appear on Navy ships 24 August 13 A Quit India resolution is passed by the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee AICC which leads to the start of a historical civil disobedience movement across India August 15 WWII American tanker Ohio reaches Malta as part of the convoy of Operation Pedestal August 16 Polish Jewish teacher Janusz Korczak follows a group of Jewish children into the Treblinka extermination camp U S Navy blimp L 8 Flight 101 comes ashore near San Francisco eventually coming down in Daly City the crew is missing August 17 WWII Raid on Makin Island US Marines of the 2nd Raider Battalion 211 men under Lt Col Evans Carlson embark aboard the submarines Argonaut and Nautilus at Pearl Harbor The aim is to destroy the Japanese installations and gather intelligence Only the first of these objectives is achieved but the raid does boost morale and provide a test for Raider tactics WWII Heavy bombers of the U S Eighth Air Force based in England conduct their first raid against occupied France August 19 WWII Dieppe Raid An Allied amphibious attack on the German occupied port of Dieppe in northern France is repulsed Some 6 000 men of the Canadian 2nd Infantry Division under General John Roberts supported by 3 and 4 Commando 50 or so US Rangers and Free French Commandos are put ashore The raid is designed to provide battle experience for the troops and to gain information about German defense methods The casualties are some 3 600 men 1 destroyer 30 tanks and 33 landing craft August 20 Plutonium is isolated for the first time at the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago August 21 WWII Operation Edelweiss German forces Gebirgsjager of the 1st Mountain Division place the Nazi swastika flag on the summit of Mount Elbrus a prominent peak of the Caucasus at 5 629 meters WWII Battle of the Tenaru The Americans defeat Japanese land forces on Guadalcanal August 22 WWII Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy August 23 WWII Battle of Stalingrad German forces of the 16th Panzer Division reach the suburbs of Stalingrad The German 6th Army under General Friedrich Paulus stabilishes the frontier and takes up positions at the Volga River August 24 WWII Charge of the Savoia Cavalleria at Izbushensky An Italian cavalry regiment attacks Soviet forces with drawn sabers at Izbushensky Russia one of the last major cavalry charges WWII Allied North Atlantic convoy ON 122 is attacked by U boats which sink 4 ships 25 WWII The 2 day Battle of the Eastern Solomons begins Bombers from carrier USS Saratoga sink Japanese aircraft carrier Ryujō near Santa Isabel Island helping to lead to an Allied victory August 25 WWII Battle of Milne Bay opens when Japanese marines land at Milne Bay Dunbeath air crash Prince George Duke of Kent brother to King George VI and King Edward VIII is among 14 to die in a military aircraft accident at Morven Scotland at the age of 39 August 26 31 WWII Battle of Isurava Japanese forces some 2 100 men of the South Seas Detachment under General Tomitarō Horii defeat the Australian Maroubra Force at Isurava who fights delaying actions on the Kokoda Track August 27 28 Sarny Massacre Nazi troops and the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police systematically execute more than 14 000 people mostly Jews in and around Sarny in German occupied Poland August 28 Polish writer Zofia Kossak Szczucka as head of the underground organization Front for the Rebirth of Poland publishes in Warsaw her Protest against the mass murder of Jews in German occupied Poland August 29 WWII Tokyo Express The Japanese navy starts at night to deliver reinforcements supplies and equipment to the Japanese forces operating in and around New Guinea and the Solomon Islands August 30 WWII Luxembourg is formally annexed to the German Reich August 30 September 5 WWII Battle of Alam el Halfa British forces in the Western Desert resist a German attack under Erwin Rommel German tanks get slow down in the minefields around Alam el Halfa Ridge and are forced to withdraw August 31 The 1942 Luxembourgish general strike is launched to protest against forced conscription in Luxembourg September Edit Main article September 1942 September 2 WWII The island of Les Casquets in the Channel Islands is raided by the forerunner of the British SAS the SSRF led by Major Gus March Phillipps this is one of the first raids by Anders Lassen VC In the raid the entire garrison of 7 is abducted and returned to England as prisoners and the radio and lighthouse are wrecked 26 27 September 3 WWII Erwin Rommel orders a general retreat and carries the German forces of Panzer Army Africa back to the line running from Tel el Eisa Deir el Shein west of Deir el Munassib down to the Qattara Depression Allied forces of the 2nd New Zealand Division and the British 7th Armoured Division Desert Rats begin an assault but they are repelled in a fierce rearguard action by the German 90th Light Division During the attack Rommel loses some 2 900 men 50 tanks a similar number of guns and 400 vehicles 28 The Holocaust A German attempt to liquidate the Jewish Lachwa Ghetto in occupied Poland leads to an uprising probably the first ghetto uprising of the war September 5 WWII Battle of Milne Bay Japanese forces suffer their first defeat on land The Holocaust The Jews of Wolbrom in occupied Poland are rounded up by the Germans and their Ukrainian collaborators 29 September 9 WWII A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary devices at Mount Emily near Brookings Oregon in the first of two Lookout Air Raids the first bombing of the continental United States September 10 WWII North Atlantic convoy ON 127 is attacked by U boats sinking 6 ships 30 The Women s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron WAFS begins operation in the United States September 12 WWII The RMS Laconia carrying civilians Allied soldiers and Italian prisoners of war is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks killing 1 649 people September 14 16 WWII Battle of Ioribaiwa Australian forces some 3 000 men under Major General Selwyn Porter are forced to withdraw to Imita Ridge due to supply problems September 15 WWII The Women s Flying Training Detachment WFTD is established in the United States September 24 WWII Andree Borrel and Lise de Baissac become the first female SOE agents to be parachuted into occupied France September 26 The Holocaust Nazi official August Frank issues the August Frank memorandum setting out how the belongings of evacuated i e murdered Jews are to be disposed of September 27 WWII Both the commerce raiding German auxiliary cruiser Stier and American Liberty ship SS Stephen Hopkins sink following a gun battle in the South Atlantic Hilfskreuzer Stier is the only commerce raider to be sunk by a defensively equipped merchant ship 31 October Edit Main article October 1942 October 2 British cruiser HMS Curacoa collides with liner RMS Queen Mary carrying troops from the United States off the coast of Donegal and sinks 338 drown WWII Japanese troopship Lisbon Maru sinks following a torpedo attack the previous day by submarine USS Grouper off the coast of China 829 are killed mostly British prisoners of war who unknown to the attacker were being held on board The first American built turbojet aircraft the Bell P 59 Airacomet fighter prototype makes its first official flight 32 October 3 The first A 4 rocket is successfully launched from Test Stand VII at Peenemunde Germany The rocket flies 147 kilometers and reaches an altitude of 84 5 kilometers becoming the first man made object to reach space October 9 WWII Third Battle of the Matanikau on Guadalcanal American forces defeat the Japanese The Statute of Westminster Adoption Act passed by the Parliament of Australia formalizes Australian autonomy from the United Kingdom October 11 WWII Battle of Cape Esperance On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island October 13 WWII North Atlantic convoy SC 104 is attacked by U boats sinking seven ships 33 October 14 The Holocaust The International Committee of the Red Cross meeting in special session at the Hotel Metropole Geneva Switzerland declines to issue an international appeal condemning the holding of civilians in Nazi concentration camps 34 WWII A U boat sinks the ferry SS Caribou off Newfoundland killing 137 October 16 A cyclone and consequential floods in the Bay of Bengal kill 40 000 people with particularly heavy damage around Contai 35 Animated short film The Mouse of Tomorrow featuring the debut of Mighty Mouse as Super Mouse is released in the United States October 18 WWII Hitler issues the Commando Order which stipulates that all Allied commandos encountered by German forces should be executed immediately without trial even in proper uniforms in response to the Dieppe Raid and Operation Basalt conducted by the Allies After the war the Nuremberg trials finds this order a direct violation of the laws and customs of war October 21 A Royal New Zealand Air Force torpedo bomber sinks the German MS Palatia with a loss of 946 lives October 23 Award winning composer and songwriter Ralph Rainger Thanks for the Memory is among 12 people killed in a mid air collision between an American Airlines DC 3 and a U S Army bomber near Palm Springs California October 23 26 WWII Battle for Henderson Field Japanese forces fail to recapture Henderson Field airfield in Guadalcanal from the Americans October 23 November 4 WWII Second Battle of El Alamein British troops go on the offensive against the Axis forces October 26 WWII Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands Two Japanese aircraft carriers are heavily damaged and one U S Navy carrier is sunk October 28 Film actor Errol Flynn is accused of statutory rape by two teenage girls The Alaska Highway is completed October 29 The Holocaust In the United Kingdom leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany s persecution of Jews October 30 WWII U boats sink 11 ships attacking diversionary convoy SL 125 but move out of the path of approaching troopships carrying Allied Operation Torch invasion forces 36 British sailors board U 559 as it sinks in the Mediterranean and retrieves its Enigma machine and codebooks November Edit Main article November 1942 November 1 WWII North Atlantic convoy SC 107 is heavily attacked by U boats sinking 15 ships 37 November 2 A USAAF squadron including B 24 Liberators intercepts many Luftwaffe patrols off the coast of Oran Algeria November 3 WWII Second Battle of El Alamein German forces under Erwin Rommel are forced to retreat during the night November 6 WWII Battle of Madagascar ends when Vichy French forces on Madagascar sign an armistice with the Allies November 8 WWII Operation Torch Elements of the Allied expeditionary force some 105 000 men under Lieutenant General Dwight D Eisenhower lands simultaneously along the coastline of Morocco and Algeria in French North Africa French Resistance Coup in Algiers 400 French civil resisters neutralize the Vichyist XIXth Army Corps and the Vichyist generals Juin Darlan etc thus allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers and ultimately the whole of French North Africa November 9 WWII German forces of the 6th Army under general Friedrich Paulus reach finally the river bank of the Volga capturing 90 of the ruined city of Stalingrad and splitting the remaining Soviet forces into two narrow pockets U S serviceman Edward Leonski is hanged at Melbourne s Pentridge Prison for the Brown Out murders of three women in May November 10 WWII In violation of a 1940 armistice Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral Francois Darlan s agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa November 12 WWII Guadalcanal Campaign A naval battle near Guadalcanal starts between Japanese and American forces November 13 WWII Guadalcanal Campaign Aviators from the USS Enterprise sink the Japanese battleship Hiei British forces capture Tobruk November 15 WWII The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal ends Although the United States Navy suffers heavy losses it retains control of Guadalcanal British forces capture Derna Libya November 18 WWII North Atlantic convoy ON 144 is attacked by U boats sinking 5 ships 38 November 19 WWII Battle of Stalingrad Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counter attacks at Stalingrad turning the tide of the battle in the USSR s favor November 20 WWII British forces capture Benghazi November 21 The completion of the Alaska Highway also known as the Alcan Highway is celebrated however the highway is not usable by general vehicles until 1943 November 22 WWII Battle of Stalingrad The situation for the German attackers of Stalingrad seems desperate during the Soviet counter attack Operation Uranus and General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German Sixth Army is surrounded November 23 WWII A U boat sinks the SS Benlomond off the coast of Brazil One crewman Chinese second steward Poon Lim is separated from the others and spends 130 days adrift until he is rescued on April 3 1943 Legislation approves the United States Coast Guard Women s Reserve to help fill jobs and free men to serve during the war effort They are known as the SPARS Semper Paratus Always Ready November 25 26 WWII Operation Harling A British Special Operations Executive team together with Greek Resistance fighters blows up the Gorgopotamos viaduct in the first major sabotage act in occupied continental Europe November 26 The movie Casablanca premieres at the Hollywood Theater in New York City November 27 WWII At Toulon the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands November 28 Cocoanut Grove fire A fire in the Cocoanut Grove night club in Boston Massachusetts kills 491 The large scale German pacification of the Zamojszczyzna region of Poland begins November 29 The Blue Star Line cargo liner MV Dunedin Star runs aground on the Skeleton Coast of Namibia Crew and passengers survive following a 26 day overland trek to Windhoek 39 November 30 WWII Battle of Tassafaronga In a nighttime naval battle as part of the Guadalcanal Campaign ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy defeat those of the United States Navy December Edit Main article December 1942 December 1 Gasoline rationing begins in the United States December 2 Manhattan Project Below the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self sustaining nuclear chain reaction a coded message The Italian navigator has landed in the new world is then sent to U S President Franklin D Roosevelt December 4 The Holocaust In Warsaw two women Zofia Kossak and Wanda Filipowicz risk their lives by setting up the Council for the Assistance of the Jews WWII USAAF bombers make their first raid on Italy December 6 Stary Ciepielow and Rekowka massacre 5 families in Occupied Poland are executed by the Ordnungspolizei as part of the German retribution against Poles who helped Jews December 7 WWII British commandos conduct Operation Frankton a raid on shipping in Bordeaux Harbour The battleship USS New Jersey BB 62 is launched at Philadelphia Pennsylvania December 8 A fire at Seacliff Lunatic Asylum in New Zealand kills 39 patients December 10 The Holocaust The Polish government in exile sends copies of The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland including Raczynski s Note the first official report on The Holocaust to 26 governments who signed the Declaration by United Nations December 11 WWII Operation Lilliput The Allies start a convoy operation for transportation of troops weapons and supplies in a regular transport service between Milne Bay and Oro Bay in New Guinea The first vessel to arrive at Oro Bay is Karsik escorted by HMAS Lithgow with four Stuart light tanks 40 December 12 WWII German troops began Operation Winter Storm an attempt to relieve encircled Axis forces during the Battle of Stalingrad December 15 WWII Guadalcanal Campaign Battle of Mount Austen the Galloping Horse and the Sea Horse the United States and allied forces begin to attack Japanese positions near the Matanikau River December 17 The Allies issue the Joint Declaration by Members of the United Nations as the answer to Raczynski s Note the first time they publicly acknowledge the Holocaust December 20 WWII First Arakan Campaign Allied forces begin a counter offensive into Burma During the offensive Japanese defenders occupying well prepared positions repeatedly repulse the British and Indian forces December 22 An avalanche in Aliquippa Pennsylvania kills 26 including Vulcan Crucible Steel heir apparent Samuel A Stafford Sr when two 100 ton boulders fall on a bus filled with wartime steelworkers on their way home An airplane carrying prominent Ustashe general Jure Francetic crashes Francetic dies as a result of the injuries on December 27 December 24 French Admiral Darlan the former Vichy leader who has switched over to the Allies following the Torch landings is assassinated in Algiers December 27 The Union of Pioneers of Yugoslavia is founded December 28 North Atlantic Convoy ON 154 is heavily attacked by U boats sinking 13 ships 41 December 31 The Times Square Ball in Times Square New York City isn t dropped for the first time Instead there is a moment of silence at midnight followed by the sound of bells playing from sound trucks at the base of One Times Square Date unknown Edit DDT is first used as a pesticide circa June The 1942 FIFA World Cup competition in Association football which Nazi Germany sought to host is not held due to World War II Births EditBirthsJanuary February March April May June July August September October November December January Edit Stephen Hawking Junichiro Koizumi Muhammad Ali Michael Crawford Eusebio 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