1942: When We Were Kids

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	1942 A Brief History of the events that shaped 1942.

January
1st	Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations.
13th	Germans begin a U-boat offensive along east coast of USA.
20th	SS Leader Heydrich holds the Wannsee Conference to coordinate the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question."
21st	Rommel's counter-offensive from El Agheila begins.
26th	First American forces arrive in Great Britain.
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February
2nd	Japan invades Singapore.
15th	Singapore surrenders to Japanese forces.
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April
8th	Japan captures Baatan.
9th	Japanese forces sink HMS Hermes near Ceylon.
15th	Malta receives the George Cross for bravery.
23rd	German air raids begin against cathedral cities in Britain.
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May
6th	US surrenders Corregidor to Japanese forces.
8th	The Battle of the Coral Sea ends.
8th	Germany launches Summer offensive in Crimea.
26th	Rommel begins an offensive against the Gazala Line.
27th	Czech partisans attack SS Leader Heydrich in Prague.
30th	First thousand bomber British air raid (against Cologne).
31st	Japanese midget subs attack Sydney Harbour.
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June
4th	SS Leader Heydrich dies from wounds.
5th	Germans besiege Sevastopol.
7th	Japanese forces beaten in The Battle of Midway.
10th	Nazis liquidate Lidice (Czechoslovakia) in reprisal for Heydrich's assassination.
21st	Rommel captures Tobruk in Libya.
25th	Eisenhower arrives in London.
30th	Rommel reaches El Alamein near Cairo, Egypt.
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July
1st	First Battle of El Alamein begins.
3rd	Germans take Sevastopol.
5th	Soviet resistance in the Crimea ends.
9th	Germans begin a drive toward Stalingrad in the USSR.
22nd	First deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to concentration camps; Treblinka extermination camp opened.
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August
7th	British General Bernard Montgomery takes command of Eighth Army in North Africa.
12th	Stalin and Churchill meet in Moscow.
17th	First all American air attack takes place in Europe.
23rd	Massive German air raid on Stalingrad.
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September
2nd	Rommel driven back by Montgomery in the Battle of Alam Halfa.
13th	Battle of Stalingrad begins.
23rd	The Manhatten Project begins, working to create an effective atomic bomb.
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October
18th	Hitler orders the execution of all captured British commandos.
23rd	The Battle of El Alamein, led by Montgomery begins.
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November
1st	Operation Supercharge (Allies break Axis lines at El Alamein).
8th	Operation Torch begins (U.S. invasion of North Africa).
11th	Germans and Italians invade unoccupied Vichy France.
19th	Soviet counter-offensive at Stalingrad begins.
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December
2nd	Professor Enrico Fermi sets up an atomic reactor in Chicago.
13th	Rommel withdraws from El Agheila.
16th	Soviets defeat Italian troops on the River Don in the USSR.
17th	British Foreign Secretary Eden tells the British House of Commons of mass executions of Jews by Nazis; U.S. declares those crimes will be avenged.
31st	Battle of the Barents Sea between German and British ships.
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