WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO DECEMBER 1942
Find out what all happened July to December 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 October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River. (6. October 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 Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time. (18. July 1942)

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

Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code. (30. October 1942)

World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein – Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel leads his forces on a five-month retreat. (4. November 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)

Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence. (8. August 1942)

The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight. (21. September 1942)

World War II: German troops begin Operation Winter Storm, an attempt to relieve encircled Axis forces during the Battle of Stalingrad. (12. December 1942)

World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics. (10. July 1942)

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

On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to Belzec extermination camp. (21. September 1942)

The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands. (22. July 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: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal. The battle lasts for three days and ends with an American victory. (12. November 1942)

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