WHAT HAPPENED IN 1942.
Look what happened the 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)

Holocaust in Chortkiav, western Ukraine: At 2.30 am the German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of their houses, divides them into groups of 120, packs them in freight cars and deports 2000 to Belzec death camp. 500 of the sick and children are murdered on the spot. (26. August 1942)

World War II: the Battle of Alam Halfa begins. (30. August 1942)

World War II: In response to news of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn leads an uprising in the Ghetto of Lakhva, in present-day Belarus. (3. September 1942)

World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War. (5. September 1942)

First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator. (7. September 1942)

World War II: Australian and US forces inflict a significant defeat upon the Japanese at the Battle of Milne Bay. (7. September 1942)

World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon. (9. September 1942)

World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign. (10. September 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: 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: 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: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is torpedoed at Guadalcanal. (15. September 1942)

Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days the German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews. (20. September 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)

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)

In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews. (21. September 1942)

The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight. (21. 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: Swiss Police Instruction of September 25, 1942 – this instruction denied entry into Switzerland to Jewish refugees. (25. September 1942)