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18 July — World War II: Germany test flies the Messerschmitt Me 262 (using only its jet engines) for the first time. 19 July — World War II – Battle of the Atlantic : German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions, in response to an effective American convoy system.
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.
The Battle of Voronezh, or First Battle of Voronezh, was a battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, fought in and around the strategically important city of Voronezh on the Don river, 450 km (280 mi) south of Moscow, from 28 June-24 July 1942, as opening move of the German summer offensive in 1942.
Results from the L-IV trial, in the first half of 1942, indicated that the spherical geometry, with five tonnes of heavy water and 10 tonnes of metallic uranium, could sustain a fission reaction. They had achieved the first net neutron production of the German program, three years after the first such pile in history by Hans von Halban and ...
The Rohwer War Relocation Center, a World War II Japanese American internment camp, opened in Desha County. Born: Gabriella Ferri, singer, in Rome, Italy (d. 2004) Wolfgang Schäuble, politician, in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany (d. 2023)
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 ...
This was also the first deportation of Slovak Jews; of the 57,000 deported in 1942 only a few hundred survived the Holocaust. The Germans launched Operation Bamberg, an anti-partisan operation in occupied Belarus. Police in Rio de Janeiro announced that they had smashed a Nazi spy ring with the arrest of 200 operatives. [37]
Peru broke off diplomatic relations with Germany, Italy and Japan. [10] The British cargo ship Empire Wildebeeste was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by German submarine U-596. The American submarine USS S-26 was accidentally rammed and sunk in the Gulf of Panama by the submarine chaser USS Sturdy. 46 men were lost.