WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO NOVEMBER 1942
Find out what all happened March to November 1942

World War II: Nazi Germany completes its occupation of France. (11. November 1942)

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

World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: in eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later. (12. May 1942)

World War II: Battle of the Atlantic – German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions in response to the effective American convoy system. (19. July 1942)

The Holocaust: the Treblinka extermination camp is opened. (23. July 1942)

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

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

World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign begins. (6. November 1942)

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

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

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 Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp. (20. June 1942)

World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces. (21. June 1942)

World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return". (20. March 1942)

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

Holocaust: Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday. (12. June 1942)