WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO OCTOBER 1942
Find out what all happened August to October 1942

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

World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks her own escort ship, HMS Curacoa, off the coast of Ireland. (2. October 1942)

World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign. (10. September 1942)

World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War. (5. September 1942)

World War II: Battle of Cape Esperance – On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island. (11. October 1942)

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

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)

First flight of the Bell XP-59 "Aircomet". (1. October 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)

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)

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)

World War II: Australian and US forces inflict a significant defeat upon the Japanese at the Battle of Milne Bay. (7. September 1942)

First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator. (7. September 1942)

The Soviet Union establishes diplomatic relations with Australia. (10. October 1942)

World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life. (12. September 1942)

The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight. (21. September 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. (7. October 1942)

World War II: the Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru. (21. August 1942)

World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Imperial Japanese Army with heavy losses for the Japanese forces. (13. September 1942)