WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO NOVEMBER 1942
Find out what all happened September to November 1942

The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight. (21. September 1942)

Last day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps troops barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces near the Matanikau River. (27. September 1942)

World War II: The Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins U.S. Marines attack Japanese units along the Matanikau River. (23. September 1942)

World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands. (27. November 1942)

World War II: Swiss Police Instruction of September 25, 1942 – this instruction denied entry into Switzerland to Jewish refugees. (25. September 1942)

World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier, Hornet, is sunk and another aircraft carrier, Enterprise, is heavily damaged, while two Japanese carriers and one cruiser are heavily damaged. (26. 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: Nazi Germany completes its occupation of France. (11. November 1942)

World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyst generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers. (8. November 1942)

World War II: Battle of Stalingrad – Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor. (19. November 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)

In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 492 people. (28. November 1942)

World War II: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River. (7. October 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)

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

In Poland, at the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently evacuate Konstantynów and move to the Ghetto in Biała Podlaska, established to assemble Jews from seven nearby towns, including Janów Podlaski, Rossosz and Terespol. (21. September 1942)

World War II: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River. (6. October 1942)

Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code. (30. October 1942)

Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy. (9. October 1942)

On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to Belzec extermination camp. (21. September 1942)