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- 1942: SUMMARY OF THE YEAR
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- Jan 1: Japanese troops occupy Manila.
- Jan 7/8: New Russian offensive on the Northern sector.
- Jan 7: Wavell arrives in Singapore.
- Jan 11: Kuala Lumpur occupied by Japanese.
- Jan 11: U Boats begin attacks on US coastal sea traffic.
- Jan 16: Japanese invade Burma.
- Jan 18: Beginning of Timoshenko`s Winter offensive.
- Jan 21: Rommel recaptures El Aghelia.
- Jan 24: Russians recross the Donets River.
- Jan 31: Soviet counter-offensive is halted.
- Jan 31: Siege of Singapore begins.
- Feb 8: Japanese forces land at Singapore.
- Feb 12: Failure of British convoy to reach Malta.
- Feb 15: Singapore surrenders to the Japanese with a garrison of
- 80,000 men.
- Feb 24: Demyansk pocket is sealed off.
- Feb 27: Commando raid on Bruneval.
- Mar 1: New Russian offensive in the Crimea.
- Mar 8: Japanese invade New Britain.
- Mar 8: Rangoon falls to Japanese.
- Mar 9: Dutch East Indies capitulate.
- Mar 20: Luftwaffe launch all-out offensive against Malta.
- Mar 27: Commando raid on St.Nazair.
- Mar 28: Incendiary attack on Lubeck.
- Apr 9: US and Filipino forces in Bataan surrender.
- Apr 10: Bataan Death March begins.
- Apr 10: Siege of Corregidor begins.
- Apr 15: Malta is awarded the George Cross.
- Apr 22: Relief of the Demyansk pocket.
- May 6: Japanese capture Corregidor.
- May 7: Battle of the Coral Sea.
- May 26: Rommel outflanks Gazala Line.
- May 30: Thousand bomber raid on Cologne.
- Jun 3: Japanese assault on Aleutian Isles.
- June 4-6:Battle of Midway.
- Jun 28: Russia: Opening of Army Group Souths Summer offensive.
- Jun 21: Tobruk garrison of 30,000 surrender to Afrika Korps.
- Jun 24: Rommel begins pursuit of 8th Army from Tobruk to Mersa Matruh.
- Jun 30: Beginning of First Battle of El Alamein.
- Jul 3: Fall of Sevastapol.
- Jul 5: Convoy PQ17 massacred by U-boats and aircraft.
- Jul 13: German attacks at El Alamein repulsed with heavy losses.
- Jul 26: Allied attack at El Alamein is defeated.
- Aug 7: US marines land on Guadalcanal.
- Aug 7: Montgomery is appointed commander of the 8th Army.
- Aug 8: Naval battle of Savo island won by Japanese.
- Aug 11: Russia - Sixth army reaches the Don River.
- Aug 23: XIV Panzer corps reaches Stalingrad.
- Aug 31: Renewed German attack towards Alam el Halfa.Attack called of
- on Sept 2nd.
- Sep 2: Beginning of Battle of Stalingrad.
- Sep 23: Rommel flies back to Germany on sick leave.
- Oct 23: 2nd Battle of El Alamein.
- Oct 25: Rommel returns to North Africa.
- Nov 3: Rommel begins withdrawel.
- Nov 5: Afrika Korps pushed back from Fuka.
- Nov 8: `Torch` landings in Morocco and Algeria.
- Nov 12: Afrika Korps abandons Tobruk.
- Aug 19: Commando raid on Dieppe.
- Aug 24: Naval battle of eastern Solomons.
- Nov 12: Naval battle of Guadalcanal begins.
- Nov 19: Beginning of Soviet counter-offensive north and south of
- Stalingrad.
- Nov 23: Sixth army surrounded at Stalingrad.
- Dec 24: Manstein fails to relieve Stalingrad.
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