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A 1941 graduate of West Point, "Sandy" Nininger would posthumously receive the first Medal of Honor of World War II. The Battle of Tarakan ended in Japanese victory. In North Africa, the British took Sallum after a 56-day siege when the Germans ran out of ammunition.
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 ...
The Battle of Gemas—part of the wider Battle of Muar—took place during the Japanese invasion of Malaya in the Pacific Campaign of the Second World War.The action occurred on 14 January 1942 at the Gemencheh Bridge near Gemas and saw almost 800 troops of the Japanese 5th Division killed, wounded or missing during a fierce ambush initiated by Australian soldiers from 2/30th Battalion ...
January 19 WWII: Japanese forces invade Burma. The United States VIII Bomber Command, later to become the Eighth Air Force, is established in Savannah, Georgia. January 25 – WWII: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom. [1] January 26 – WWII: The first American forces arrive in Europe, landing in Northern Ireland.
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It took place from 14–22 January 1942 around Gemensah Bridge and on the Muar River. After the British defeat at Slim River , General Archibald Wavell , commander of ABDA , decided that Lieutenant General Lewis Heath 's III Indian Corps should withdraw 240 kilometres (150 mi) south into the State of Johore to rest and regroup, while the 8th ...
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.