WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO OCTOBER 1942
Find out what all happened January to October 1942

World War II: in the United States, a bill creating the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is signed into law. (15. May 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: 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)

Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad. (23. July 1942)

World War II: Japanese ships retreat after their defeat in the Battle of Cape Esperance with the Japanese commander, Aritomo Gotō dying from wounds suffered in the battle and two Japanese destroyers sunk by Allied air attack. (12. October 1942)

The Holocaust: the Treblinka extermination camp is opened. (23. 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 United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union. (11. 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)

World War II: The Battle of Bukit Timah is fought in Singapore. (11. February 1942)

World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins. (7. January 1942)

World War II: In occupied France, British naval forces successfully raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire. (28. March 1942)

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

Holocaust in Chortkiav, western Ukraine: At 2.30 am the German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of their houses, divides them into groups of 120, packs them in freight cars and deports 2000 to Belzec death camp. 500 of the sick and children are murdered on the spot. (26. August 1942)

World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin killing 243 people. (19. February 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: Baedeker Blitz – German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck. (23. April 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: Allied forces successfully halt the final Axis advance into Egypt. (27. July 1942)

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