WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO DECEMBER 1942
Find out what all happened March to December 1942

World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces. (21. June 1942)

World War II: The flag of Nazi Germany is installed atop the Mount Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus mountain range. (21. August 1942)

World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign begins. (6. November 1942)

World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands. (27. November 1942)

Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France. (18. April 1942)

World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later. (27. May 1942)

World War II: The most famous (and first international) Aggie Muster is held on the Philippine island of Corregidor, by Brigadier General George F. Moore (with 25 fellow Texas A&M graduates who are under his command), while 1.8 million pounds of shells pounded the island over a 5-hour attack. (21. April 1942)

World War II: The Koli Point action begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 12. (3. November 1942)

Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days the German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews. (20. September 1942)

World War II: the first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train full of Jews from Paris. (23. June 1942)

World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga; A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizō Tanaka defeats a U.S. cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright. (30. November 1942)

World War II: The two-person crew of the U.S. naval blimp L-8 disappears without a trace on a routine anti-submarine patrol over the Pacific Ocean. The blimp drifts without her crew and crash-lands in Daly City, California. (16. August 1942)

Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies. (22. May 1942)

World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich. (10. June 1942)

World War II: U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin (Butaritari). (17. August 1942)

World War II: Japanese air forces bomb Calcutta, India. (20. December 1942)

The Holocaust: August Frank, a higher official of the SS concentration camp administration department, issues a memorandum containing a great deal of operational detail in how Jews should be "evacuated". (26. September 1942)

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. (29. October 1942)

World War II: In response to news of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn leads an uprising in the Ghetto of Lakhva, in present-day Belarus. (3. September 1942)

The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army's 4th Infantry Regiment. (9. October 1942)