WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO SEPTEMBER 1942
Find out what all happened June to September 1942

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

World War II: Allied forces successfully halt the final Axis advance into Egypt. (27. July 1942)

World War II: Swiss Police Instruction of September 25, 1942 – this instruction denied entry into Switzerland to Jewish refugees. (25. September 1942)

Holocaust: the systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins. (22. July 1942)

World War II: first Battle of El Alamein. (1. July 1942)

World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into the Soviet Union. Under the order all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be immediately executed. (28. July 1942)

World War II: the Battle of Guadalcanal begins – United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands. (7. August 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)

Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement. (9. August 1942)

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

Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi. (11. August 1942)

Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse. (6. July 1942)

In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews. (21. September 1942)

World War II: Battle of Midway. U.S. Navy dive bombers sink the Japanese cruiser Mikuma and four Japanese carriers. (6. June 1942)

Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project. (13. August 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)

World War II: Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy. (22. August 1942)

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

World War II: First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal campaign. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field on Guadalcanal are attacked by Imperial Japanese Army forces. (12. September 1942)

World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad. (23. August 1942)