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1942, clockwise from top ... This is a timeline of events that occurred during World War II in 1942. ... The beginning of a major Red Army offensive under General ...
March – Construction begins on the Badger Army Ammunition Plant (the largest in the United States during WWII). March 9 – WWII: Executive order 9082 (February 28, 1942) reorganizes the United States Army into three major commands: Army Ground Forces, Army Air Forces, and Services of Supply, later redesignated Army Service Forces.
1942 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.
1942 - Sugar and gasoline are rationed; 1942 – Office of Price Administration; 1942 – Cocoanut Grove fire kills 492 people, leads to vast reforms in fire codes and safety standards; 1942 – Congress of Racial Equality; 1942 – Revenue Act of 1942; 1942 – Doolittle Raid; 1942 – Battle of the Coral Sea; 1942 – Battle of Midway; 1942 ...
January 7, 1942 April 9, 1942 Bataan Peninsula, Philippines: Philippines campaign (1941–1942) 15,000 captured and interned [3] Japanese victory Japan Last stand of American and Filipino forces; Ended in Japanese capture of Bataan Peninsula; Doolittle Raid: April 18, 1942 Tokyo and other Japanese cities 3 killed and 8 later died in captivity ...
The major battle of Operation Market Garden; Allies reach but fail to cross the Rhine; British First Airborne Division destroyed. • Battle of Peleliu: A fight to capture an airstrip on a speck of coral in the western Pacific. • Battle of Aachen: Aachen was the first major German city to face invasion during World War II. • Battle of the ...
Timeline of the United Kingdom home front during World War II (1939–1945) Timeline of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (1918–1941) Timeline of Sweden during World War II (1939–1945) Timeline of the Netherlands during World War II (1939–1945) Chronology of the liberation of Dutch cities and towns during World War II
The European theatre of World War II was one of the two main theatres of combat [nb 18] during World War II, taking place from September 1939 to May 1945.The Allied powers (including the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union and France) fought the Axis powers (including Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy) on both sides of the continent in the Western and Eastern fronts.