WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO NOVEMBER 1942
Find out what all happened July to November 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)

World War II: The Battle for Henderson Field begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on October 26. (23. October 1942)

World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks her own escort ship, HMS Curacoa, off the coast of Ireland. (2. October 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)

World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa. (10. November 1942)

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

World War II: Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy. (22. August 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)

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

World War II: Battle of Stalingrad – General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded. (22. November 1942)

Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the Nazis. (25. July 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: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia. (26. November 1942)

World War II: second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons. A Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned-back by an Allied air attack, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged. (25. August 1942)

USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she is carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong (1. October 1942)

The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however, the highway is not usable by general vehicles until 1943). (21. November 1942)

The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands. (22. July 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: U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin (Butaritari). (17. August 1942)

Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda. (19. November 1942)