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The following events occurred in January 1942: ... A 1941 graduate of West Point, "Sandy" Nininger would posthumously receive the first Medal of Honor of World War II.
1942, clockwise from top left: British artillery barrage opens the Battle of El Alamein; the Jews of Salonika are rounded up for deportation to extermination camps; Soviet troops of the Great Patriotic War fight the Battle of Stalingrad; USS Lexington (CV-2) under fire at the Battle of the Coral Sea; Reinhard Heydrich's car after attack by Czech resistance; 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking troops ...
January 1942 sports events (7 P) M. Maritime incidents in January 1942 (58 P) Pages in category "January 1942" ... Punishment for War Crimes; Q.
Besprechungsprotokoll Wannseekonferenz – Minutes of the Wannsee Conference – Berlin, 20 January 1942. Click to view PDF. The Wannsee Conference (German: Wannseekonferenz, German pronunciation: [ˈvanzeːkɔnfeˌʁɛnt͡s] ⓘ) was a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel (SS) leaders, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942.
20 January — World War II: Nazis at the Wannsee conference in Berlin decide that the "final solution to the Jewish problem" is deportation, and later extermination. 21 January — World War II: Erwin Rommel launches his new offensive in Cyrenaica. 3 February — World War II: Rommel suspends his offensive in Cyrenaica.
Pages in category "January 1942 events" ... Punishment for War Crimes; Q. 1942 Qantas Short Empire shootdown; R. Battle of Rabaul (1942) T. Toropets–Kholm offensive; V.
The battle represented the most intense phase of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines during World War II. In January 1942, forces of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy invaded Luzon along with several islands in the Philippine Archipelago after the bombing of the American naval base at Pearl Harbor.
January 1 Sales of new cars are banned to save steel. WWII: The United States and Philippines troops fight the Battle of Bataan. January 10 – WWII: The last German air-raid on the English port of Liverpool destroys the home of William Patrick Hitler, Adolf Hitler's nephew. William Hitler is in the United States and later joins the navy to ...