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1942: SUMMARY OF THE YEAR
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.