WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO SEPTEMBER 1942
Find out what all happened April to 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)

World War II: Siege of Leningrad – Soviet forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad. (8. April 1942)

World War II: Nazi Germany started its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue (28. June 1942)

World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland. (21. June 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)

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

World War II: Operation Jubilee – the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured. The operation was intended to develop and try new amphibious landing tactics for the coming full invasion in Normandy. (19. August 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)

Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the Nazis. (25. July 1942)

Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk. (22. June 1942)

Holocaust: The SS murders 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants murdered or deported. (9. May 1942)

Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead. (26. April 1942)

World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia. (31. May 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)

World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle. (8. June 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)

The Holocaust: 1,500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz. (12. May 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: The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines. (8. April 1942)