WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO NOVEMBER 1942
Find out what all happened January to November 1942

During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Japanese Imperial Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships. (7. May 1942)

The Holocaust: 1,500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz. (12. May 1942)

World War II: The Battle of Gazala takes place. (26. May 1942)

The Holocaust: the Treblinka extermination camp is opened. (23. July 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: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign begins. (6. November 1942)

World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp. (19. April 1942)

Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France. (18. April 1942)

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

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

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

World War II: The most famous (and first international) Aggie Muster is held on the Philippine island of Corregidor, by Brigadier General George F. Moore (with 25 fellow Texas A&M graduates who are under his command), while 1.8 million pounds of shells pounded the island over a 5-hour attack. (21. April 1942)

The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight. (21. September 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: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur. (11. January 1942)

World War II: The U.S. tanker Virginia was torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German U-Boat U-507. (12. May 1942)

World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union. (11. June 1942)

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

World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese. (6. May 1942)

World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the California coastline near Santa Barbara. (23. February 1942)