WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO JULY 1942
Find out what all happened June to July 1942

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

World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales. (23. June 1942)

World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics. (10. July 1942)

World War II: the first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train full of Jews from Paris. (23. June 1942)

World War II: first Battle of El Alamein. (1. July 1942)

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

The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat. (26. June 1942)

Holocaust: Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday. (12. 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: 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: The Battle of Midway ended. (7. June 1942)

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

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

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

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

World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island. (3. June 1942)

Holocaust: Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv): the government of Vichy France orders the mass arrest of 13,152 Jews who are held at the Winter Velodrome in Paris before deportation to Auschwitz. (16. July 1942)

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