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March 16, 1942 (Monday) A tornado outbreak struck a large area of the Central and Southern United States. 153 people were killed over the next two days. Members of the far-right Swiss National Front were sentenced to long prison terms for propagandistic activities. [24] German submarine U-706 was commissioned.
[2] On 2 March 1942, the ghetto's nursery or orphanage was "liquidated"; the children were buried alive in a pit after the murderers had tossed them candy: [4] At that moment, several SS officers, among them Wilhelm Kube, [5] arrived, whereupon Kube, immaculate in his uniform, threw handfuls of sweets to the shrieking children. All the children ...
The state of the Allies and Axis powers in November 1942. 1: Operation Supercharge, the Allied breakout at El Alamein, begins. On Guadalcanal, the Americans begin the Matanikau Offensive against the Japanese. 3: Second Battle of El Alamein ends – German forces under Erwin Rommel are forced to retreat during the night.
PT-32, one of the four PT-20 class motor torpedo boats involved in the first part of the journey. On 11 March 1942, during World War II, General Douglas MacArthur and members of his family and staff left the Philippine island of Corregidor, where his forces were surrounded by the Japanese. They traveled in PT boats through stormy seas patrolled ...
1942 ( MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1942nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 942nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 42nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1940s decade.
September 9, 1942, and September 29, 1942 – Lookout Air Raids, the only attack by enemy aircraft on the contiguous U.S. and the second enemy aircraft attack on the U.S. continent in World War II. November 1944–April 1945 – Fu-Go balloon bombs , over 9,300 of them were launched by Japan across the Pacific Ocean towards the U.S. to start ...
Between March 1942 and December 1942, at least 434,508 people were killed there. 24 March - The deportation of Slovak Jews to Auschwitz begins. 27 March - The first French Jews are deported to Auschwitz. April — Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp Sobibor opens in occupied Poland on the outskirts of the village of Sobibór.
Battle of Corregidor. The Battle of Corregidor ( Filipino: Labanan sa Corregidor; Japanese: コレヒドールの戦い ), fought on 5–6 May 1942, was the culmination of the Japanese campaign for the conquest of the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II . The fall of Bataan on 9 April 1942 ended all organized opposition by the ...