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The following events occurred in August 1942: August 1, 1942 (Saturday) The Germans cut the railway line linking Stalingrad to Krasnodar. [1]
Pages in category "August 1942 events" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Battle of Alam el ...
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The naval Battle of the Eastern Solomons (also known as the Battle of the Stewart Islands and in Japanese sources as the Second Battle of the Solomon Sea) took place on 24–25 August 1942 and was the third carrier battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II and the second major engagement fought between the United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the Guadalcanal ...
Operation Jubilee was the Allied code name for the raid at Dieppe on the French coast on August 19, 1942. The following order of battle lists the significant military units that participated in the battle , or were available as reserve.
Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions, May 1942 – August 1942. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. IV. Boston: Little, Brown and Co. ISBN 0-3165-8304-9. Morison, Samuel Eliot (1948). The Struggle for Guadalcanal, August 1942 – February 1943.
On 7 August 1942, Allied forces, predominantly United States Marines, landed on Guadalcanal, Tulagi, and Florida Island in the southern Solomon Islands, with the objective of using Guadalcanal and Tulagi as bases in supporting a campaign to eventually capture or neutralize the major Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain.
Operation Jubilee or the Dieppe Raid (19 August 1942) was a disastrous Allied amphibious attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe in northern France, during the Second World War. Over 6,050 infantry , predominantly Canadian, supported by a regiment of tanks, were put ashore from a naval force operating under the protection of Royal Air ...