List of events during the Second World War: 1942

This is a list of events during the Second World War during the year 1942.





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*January 1St  ==January [  edit ] == January 1st
 * February 2
 * 3 March
 * April 4
 * May 5
 * June 6
 * July 7
 * Aug. 8
 * September 9
 * 10 October
 * 11 November
 * December 12
 * 13 References


 * Nazification of the Dutch Radio broadcasting.
 * Counterattack of the Red Army across the front.

January 2


 * Japanese troops occupied Manila .
 * US troops withdraw to the island of Bataan .

On January 3


 * British Field Marshal Archibald Wavell appointed Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the Pacific .

On January 10


 * In the Netherlands coins of zinc into circulation with a value of 1, 2½, 5, 10 and 25 cents. These were the people do Rost of Tonningen coins named after the former NSB president of De Nederlandsche Bank.

On January 11


 * Japanese troops capture Kuala Lumpur .
 * The Afrika Korps to retreat to El Agheila .

On January 12


 * Japanese troops advance Burma within.

January 13


 * Japanese troops capture Tarakan in Borneo .

January 20


 * The Germans replaced the encryption code for the weather (forecast short code) used by the U-boats, with a new version. This allows the cryptographers of Bletchley Park, the old version (the code books in May 1941 from the weather ship München and U-boat U-110 was hijacked) no longer use. Now the Allies may encryption Shark, the code of the German navy in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, not decode, which will result in big black hole from 1 February 1942 .
 * Wannsee Conference in the same villa district Berlin-Wannsee, on the final solution . Secretary is Adolf Eichmann .

On January 21


 * The Afrika Korps launched its second offensive in Libya .

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 * End of the battle for Moscow . All the armies of the Germans west of the city to retreat.
 * Japanese landing in the Bismarck Archipelago .

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 * Japanese troepenontscheping the Solomon Islands and New Guinea .
 * The Germans recapture Benghazi .

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 * The Malay Peninsula is occupied by the Japanese.
 * Beginning of the siege of Singapore .

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 * The cryptographers in Bletchley Park to "Shark", the code of the German navy in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, not decode resulting in the big black hole. The reason was that the German naval Enigma cipher machines that were in use at the U-boats in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean of a fourth rotor and provided a new reflector wheel. The black hole will take more than ten months.
 * The first group of Dutch Jews go to the so-called "work expansion".

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 * The British 8th Army managed to stabilize the front in North Africa on the line Gazala - Bir Hakeim .

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 * The Japanese bombing cities on Java .
 * Japanese air raid on Port Moresby .

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 * Japan demanding unconditional surrender of Singapore .
 * The Afrika Korps conquers Derna .

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 * Fritz Todt, Reich Minister for armaments and munitions in the Nazi regime comes to life in a plane crash near the German headquarters Wolfsschanze ( Rastenburg ). He is succeeded by Albert Speer .
 * In the area around Demjansk be more than ninety thousand Germans surrounded.

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 * Japanese troops are Singapore (in Malacca ) and Makassar (in Celebes ) to.
 * Japan conquers Martaban in Burma.

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 * The Gneisenau , Scharnhorst and Prinz Eugen force a breakthrough in the strait and reach Kiel.

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 * Capitulation of Singapore. On the allied side are nine hundred thirty thousand dead and captured.
 * The Red Army paratroopers dropping into the area around Demjansk, where more than ninety thousand Germans have surrounded. The attack was a failure.

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 * Japanese troops occupied Palembang and Jambi .

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 * The Dutch destroyer Hr. Ms. Van Nes by Japanese bombers south of Banka sunk.

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 * The Dutch submarine Hr. Ms. K 7 by a Japanese bomb sunk by the Marine Establishment of Surabaya .

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 * Japanese troops land in Bali .
 * Japanese bombing of Darwin .

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 * Japanese troops landed on Portuguese Timor .

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 * The Afrika Korps led by Erwin Rommel opens an offensive against the British 8th Army.

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 * Douglas MacArthur was appointed supreme commander of Allied forces in Australia.

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 * All Dutch are obliged to work for the Germans.

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 * The Red Army encircling German troops in Staraya Russa .

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 * Wavell explains his position as commander of American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM) down, and bears its responsibilities to local commanders.

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 * Battle of the Java Sea . The Allied squadron under the Dutch Rear-Night Karel Doorman was defeated by the Japanese. The Dutch cruisers De Ruyter and Java and the Dutch destroyer Kortenaer and British destroyers HMS Electra and Jupiter will be lost. ABDACOM takes this de facto cease to exist.
 * The Soviet offensive in the Crimea will be continued on the peninsula Kerch and Sevastopol .

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 * Beginning of the Japanese landings on Java.
 * First weapon dropping in the Netherlands thanks to the Englandspiel failed.

==March <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">March 1


 * The Red Army launches an attack in the direction of the Crimea.

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 * Japanese troops pull Batavia within.

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 * Capitulation of the Royal Dutch East Indies Army (KNIL) .
 * The RAF carry out attacks on the Krupp processing facilities in Essen .

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 * The Japanese occupied Bandung . This they have been handed over Java.

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 * The conclusion of a German research into the causes of the sunken ships Atlantis and Python (Nov. 1941 ) reports that the Enigma Code of the German navy is not compromised. The fear of the Germans was that their naval communication was overheard by the Allies.

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 * The British carry out a bombing at Saint-Nazaire .

==April <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">April 1


 * Begin deportation Jewish patients from Dutch hospitals.
 * Labour Department is required.

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 * The Japanese air force is bombing Ceylon .

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 * The allied troops on Sumatra surrender.

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 * Capitulation American troops on Bataan.

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 * Beginning of Labor in the Netherlands.

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 * Traders in the Amsterdam Diamond Exchange forced their diamond stock to deliver to the Germans.

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 * During an inspection at the Amsterdam Diamond Exchange traders are checked and retarded diamonds taken by the Crisis Inspectorate. The event was captured by the photographer Bart de Cook .
 * Resignation of the government-Darlan in Vichy France.

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 * Laval is the new head of government in Vichy France.
 * American bombing of Tokyo, Jokahama, Nagoya and Kobe.

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 * General Giraud escaped from German captivity.
 * Japan pulls away in Burma

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 * British landing in Madagascar .

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 * Beginning of the air and sea battle in the Coral Sea .
 * The Americans capitulate in the Philippines.

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 * For the first time knows a German U-boat, the U 553 under Commander Karl Thurmann, the St. Lawrence Seaway to sail inside, where he brings some ships sunk in the following days.

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 * All Dutch Jews have a Star of David bearing
 * End of the air and sea battle in the Coral Sea. Japan has suffered heavy losses.

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 * The Red Army attacks Kharkiv on.

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 * The British are forced back into Burma to the border with India.
 * Dutch professional officers in captivity.

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 * The Germans recapture Kerch in the Crimea.

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 * The Afrika Korps resumed the offensive in Libya.
 * Treaty between Great Britain and the Soviet Union on mutual assistance for the duration of twenty years.

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 * Attack on Reinhard Heydrich .

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 * The Red Army Kharkiv recaptured.

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 * About a thousand bombers bombing Cologne.

==June <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == The Allies and the Axis in June 1942.<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">June 3


 * RAF conducts a raid on the Ruhr.

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 * Heavy German attack on Sebastopol.

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 * Start of the Battle of Midway
 * Reinhard Heydrich dies of his injuries.

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 * German counteroffensive in the direction of Kharkov.
 * As a reprisal for the attack on Heydrich, the village of Lidice murdered.

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 * The United States declare the Loan and Farm Lease Act also apply to the Soviet Union.
 * The Free French to surrender Bir Hakeim to the Afrika Korps.

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 * The first large group of Dutch forced laborers to Germany.

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 * British retreat to Egypt.
 * The two convoys, which were to provide Malta ( Operation Harpoon and Operation Vigourous ) are attacked by planes and navy of Italy and Germany. The Allies suffered heavy losses.

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 * The Afrika Korps, led by Erwin Rommel , conquers Tobruk .

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 * Erwin Rommel is promoted to field marshal and he is at the age of fifty, the youngest German Field Marshal ever.

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 * Soviet troops must withdraw from Kharkov.
 * The British bomb Bremen.

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 * Convoy PQ17 leave the assembly point near Iceland with 36 ships (another source says 35 ships).
 * Loan and lease agreement between Great Britain and the Soviet Union.

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 * German spring offensive on the entire Eastern Front.

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 * The Afrika Korps reached El Alamein.
 * In the Netherlands, the Jews must be between 20h00 and 06h00 in their homes.

==July <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">July 1st


 * Convoy PQ17 is detected by a German reconnaissance plane which in turn notifies German submarines and warships.
 * The Afrika Korps opened the First Battle of El Alamein, a battle in the North Africa campaign , and succeeded with great difficulty in the evening to break the first British line, but El Alamein endures.

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 * Erwin Rommel 's Afrika Korps leaves his attack from the north to as El Alamein to take. The first British counterattack fails, but a second Allied attack Rommel does decide to regroup and hold the achieved lines.

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 * Sebastopol by the Germans, after a siege of more than eight months conquered.
 * Troepenontscheping Japanese on Guadalcanal

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 * The intelligence service of the British Navy (Admiralty OIC) First Sea Lord Sir can Dudley Pound not guarantee that the German battleship Tirpitz its anchorage in Norway has left and so threatens convoyPQ17 .
 * First American air strikes in Europe, on airfield De Kooy , Den Helder <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">July 5


 * German forces on the Don and fall Voronezh to. The battle for the city takes approximately six weeks.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">July 7


 * Sterilization experiments at Auschwitz by Himmler allowed.

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 * Convoy PQ17 comes with two ships to the port of Arkhangelsk . Nine other ships were sent a week later in the port of Murmansk . PQ17 was the convoy that had the brunt of all the convoys during the Second World War, which were used by the Allies ..
 * In the first battle of El Alamein launch the British, under General Auchinleck, a second attack against the Axis powers and create more than 1,000 prisoner of war.

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 * The Dutch minesweeper Hr. Ms. Terschelling sinks off the English coast after a German air raid.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">July 14


 * General Auchinleck leaves his allied troops the Afrika Korps attacks near Ruweisat ridge . The First Battle of Ruweisat ridge failed.
 * Major raids in Amsterdam.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">July 15


 * First group of Dutch Jews were transported from Westerbork to Auschwitz.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">July 16


 * Arrests and mass deportations of Jews in Paris.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">July 18


 * The United States declares Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania the war.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">July 21


 * General Auchinleck leaves his troops again the Afrika Korps attacks near Ruweisat ridge. The Second Battle Ruweisat ridge also failed.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">July 23


 * The Treblinka extermination camp is put into use.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">July 24


 * The Wehrmacht recaptures Rostov on the Red Army.
 * The Western Allies agree to open a second front in North Africa.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">July 25


 * Attack on the Jewish local of "employment", 56 Boulevard du Midi in Brussels.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">July 26


 * The RAF carry out a bombing raid on the port city of Hamburg.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">July 27


 * The 8th British Army is exhausted. General Auchinleck declares that attacks are preliminary view and prefers to bring its military strength. This is the end of the First Battle of El Alamein .

==August <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">August 5


 * The Germans take over the Kuban and focus their attack on the Caucasus.
 * First group of Belgian Jews arriving at Auschwitz.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">August 7


 * The plane of William Gott, Lieutenant General of the British 8th Army, is shot and Gott comes. Gott would succeed normally Claude Auchinleck as commander of the 8th British Army.
 * US Marines land on Guadalcanal.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">August 8


 * Battle of Savo Island near Guadalcanal.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">August 9


 * German attack on the cities of Krasnodar and Maykop in the Caucasus.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">August 12


 * The second conference of Moscow takes place. The consultation lasts until August 17th.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">August 13


 * Bernard Montgomery took two days earlier than officially provided the leadership of the British 8th Army. With this, he will replace Claude Auchinleck who was no longer in favor with Winston Churchill .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">August 15


 * RAF Group No. 8 (Pathfinder) is founded. This was a plane formation within the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, the Allied bombers preceded and goals was to highlight them.
 * Five Dutch hostages, among them Robert Baelde and Willem Ruys be in retaliation after railway sabotage shot.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">August 18


 * Bernard Montgomery takes command of the British Eighth Army in Egypt itself.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">August 19


 * The Canadians carry an assault on Dieppe from.
 * Alan Brooke and Alexander attend the 8th Army and have been surprised by the turnaround in morale after Montgomery took command.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">August 22


 * Brazil, Germany and Italy declare war.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">August 23


 * Battle of the Eastern Solomon Islands .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">August 26


 * In Vichy France, seven thousand Jews arrested.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">August 28


 * The Red Army does a counteroffensive in Leningrad.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">August 30


 * The Afrika Korps launch the Battle of Alam Halfa but fails the offensive.
 * Germany annexes Luxembourg.

==September <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">September 1


 * German troops reached the Volga .
 * German troops land on the Taman peninsula.
 * In Dachau find the first place hypothermia experiments.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">September 4


 * In France, forced labor is announced.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">On September 9


 * In Oregon find the first and only Japanese bombing raids on the mainland site.
 * In Auschwitz the bodies are not buried, but burned. This is to prevent the smell and pollution of the groundwater.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">September 10


 * The Germans capture Novorossiysk on the Black Sea .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">September 14


 * The first German troops invaded the outskirts of Stalingrad and there encounter fierce resistance.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">September 15


 * A Japanese submarine destroys the USS Wasp and damaged the USS North Carolina

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">September 18


 * In the rations for Jews are reduced throughout Germany.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">September 23


 * The British occupied the city of Tananarive in Madagascar.
 * The Americans decide to proceed with developing a nuclear bomb.
 * The Soviets launch an attack northeast of Stalingrad.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">September 27


 * The British go on the offensive in Burma.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">September 28


 * Richard Sorge spy Die Rote Kapelle, was sentenced to death in Tokyo.

==October <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">October 2


 * Jewish camps are emptied in the Netherlands. Fourteen thousand people were deported.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">October 5


 * In Norway, the Germans go on to numerous arrests and executions. The reason for this are various acts of sabotage in the country.
 * Himmler issues a regulation from which all Jews were deported to the German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Majdanek.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Oct. 11


 * Air and naval battle at Cape Hope on Guadalcanal .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Oct. 14


 * In the Ukrainian ghetto Mizocz find a big massacre.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Oct. 16


 * The Americans conquer the New Hebrides and the Fiji Islands.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Oct. 22


 * In Sachsenhausen get the prisoners revolted. However, the existing SS act firmly and know to bring peace back.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Oct. 23


 * The second battle of El Alamein start. Operation Lightfoot is the first of five stages in this offensive.
 * A Japanese attack on American positions can result in a big loss for the Japanese.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Oct. 25


 * Start of the tank battle to the Kidney-ridge.
 * Norwegian first Jews arriving at Auschwitz.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Oct. 26


 * Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Oct. 28


 * End of the battle for the Kidney-ridge. The Allies have repulsed all attacks.
 * From Theresienstadt arrives the first transport of Jews in Auschwitz.

==November <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == The Allies and the Axis in November 1942.<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">November 3


 * The second battle of El Alamein is over. The Allies have the Axis beaten back. It is a turning point in the North African campaign where the Allies Axis access to the Suez Canal and the oil fields of the Middle East have forever denied.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">November 5


 * The British have Madagascar as well as completely under control.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">November 8


 * Start of Operation Torch . British and American troops land in Vichy French North Africa.
 * Afrika Korps should withdraw from Egypt.
 * The United States breaks diplomatic relations with Vichy France.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">November 11


 * The port city of Tobruk again falls into the hands of the Allies.
 * Battleships in the Indian Ocean between Ondina, Bengal, Hokoku Maru Maru and Aikoku
 * The Germans occupied the free zone of France.
 * The Allies capture Casablanca and Bougie.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">November 12


 * Hitler shows bring additional troops to North Africa to reinforce the Afrika Korps.
 * The Italians occupy Corsica.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">November 13


 * The Dutch destroyer Hr. Ms. Isaac Sweers is for the North African coast brought by sinking a German submarine.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Nov. 14


 * The Afrika Korps far must withdraw in Cyrenaica.
 * German armored troops arrive in North Africa.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Nov. 15


 * Giraud appointed supreme commander of the French forces in North Africa.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Nov. 18


 * Petain wearing his full powers to Laval.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">November 19


 * Operation Uranus, the Russian plan to encircle the German 6th Army, begins.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Nov. 20


 * The British recapture Benghazi.
 * The Red Army launches an offensive in the Caucasus.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Nov. 23


 * Operation Uranus is completed.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Nov. 24


 * The Afrika Korps withdrew to El Agheila.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">November 26


 * New air and sea battle in the Solomon Islands.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Nov. 27


 * The Germans occupied Toulon.
 * The French fleet brings herself to sink.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Nov. 28


 * The British conquer Reunion.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">November 30


 * French Somaliland and Réunion join Free France.

==December <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == The Allies and the Axis in December 1942, this map shows the retreat of the Germans in North Africa.<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">December 1


 * The Red Army launches an offensive between the Don and Volga.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">December 4


 * The US 5th Air Force (US Air Force 5th) introduces for the first attack on the Italian port city of Naples .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">December 6


 * The Philips factories were bombed in Eindhoven. The death toll is 138.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">December 8


 * German troops occupied the Tunisian port city of Bizerte .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">December 12


 * The Free French conquer Bir Hakeim.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Dec. 13


 * The German Afrika Korps must El Agheila evacuation in Libya.
 * Mussert being the ringleader of the Dutch people.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Dec. 14


 * Madagascar is under the supervision of Free France.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Dec. 16


 * The Russian Operation Little Saturn to destroy the German 6th Army, begins.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Dec. 23


 * The German attempt to Stalingrad to relieve jams.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">December 24th


 * The Red Army opens offensive direction Kotelnikovo and breaks through the defense of the 4th Romanian Army.
 * Admiral Darlan is assassinated in Algiers.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Dec. 28


 * The German Army Group A is forced the Caucasus to evacuate.
 * Giraud follows Darlan as civil and military commander in North Africa.

==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[References  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Great Book of World War II, part I: From Munich to Pearl Harbor, The Reader Diggest, ISBN 9064070113
 * Enigma, the battle for the code, Hugh Sebag-Montefiore, ISBN 0-75381-130-8
 * The Chronological Atlas of World War II, Barrie and Frances Pitt, ISBN 0-333-44881-2
 * The Second World War, John Keegan , ISBN 0-7126-7348-2