WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO AUGUST 1942
Find out what all happened May to August 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: first Battle of El Alamein. (1. July 1942)

World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Japanese soldiers began occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska. (7. June 1942)

World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. The Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese navy. (4. June 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)

World War II: the Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time. (18. July 1942)

World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin. (23. July 1942)

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

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

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

Walt Disney's 5th full-length animated film, Bambi, was released to theaters. (13. 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)

Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established. (10. July 1942)

World War II: Allied forces successfully halt the final Axis advance into Egypt. (27. July 1942)

World War II: The Battle of Gazala takes place. (26. 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 Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign. (10. May 1942)

The Steel Workers Organizing Committee disbands, and a new trade union, the United Steelworkers, is formed. (22. May 1942)

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

Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies. (22. May 1942)