WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO AUGUST 1942
Find out what all happened June to August 1942

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

World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin. (23. July 1942)

The Holocaust: the Treblinka extermination camp is opened. (23. July 1942)

The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as the State Income Tax is abolished. (1. July 1942)

World War II: the Battle of Alam Halfa begins. (30. August 1942)

World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Japanese soldiers began occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska. (7. June 1942)

World War II: Battle of the Atlantic – German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions in response to the effective American convoy system. (19. July 1942)

World War II: Operation Pedestal — The SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island's defenses. (15. August 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: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union. (11. June 1942)

Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress. (6. August 1942)

World War II: The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania. (5. June 1942)

World War II: Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea. (25. August 1942)

World War II: The Battle of Midway ended. (7. June 1942)

The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands. (22. July 1942)

Holocaust: Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv): the government of Vichy France orders the mass arrest of 13,152 Jews who are held at the Winter Velodrome in Paris before deportation to Auschwitz. (16. July 1942)

World War II: Operation Jubilee – the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured. The operation was intended to develop and try new amphibious landing tactics for the coming full invasion in Normandy. (19. August 1942)

The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat. (26. June 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)

Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established. (10. July 1942)