1942 in Review Day by Day to Mapes 154
A brisk day by day history review covering wartime events. Notable items include Roosevelt war goals and budgets, Vichy and Axis developments, allied logistics, and battles such as Sevastopol and Macassar Strait. Highlights mention Lend‑Lease, labor leadership changes, Japs in Bataan, and wartime production shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Barber
U. Ss
Macassar Strait
Peru
Uriguay
Axis
North Areland
Ecuador-Peru
Henderson
Puerto Rico
Benghazi
Amboine
Java
World War II Watch February Updates and Conflicts
February events show Iraq seeks loans fromlezse to China and Chian Kai-shek with Nehru discuss mobilization. Nazi leaders strike clashes as battleships move and Singapore falls. Churchill reshuffles cabinet while domestic defense bills pass. Debts rise and key military leaders face scrutiny as war widens across Europe Asia and the Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
Ib Waash
T—Pamine
Greece
Fritz Todt
O—Limer Cafaretti
Norman- Mebares
New York
William Stendley
Russia
House
Office of Civilian Defense
Chiang Kai-shek
Jawaharlal Nehru
la Guardia
OCD
James Landis
Singapore
Island
Gorioenee
Scharnhorst
Pritts Eugendash
Breet
Helgeland
Laura Ingalls
Kerch
March War Timeline Highlights New Fronts and Home Fronts
The record lists mid March World War II events across theaters. Japanese advances and sinkings in the Pacific. Allied actions including Stilwell’s Burma commands and MacArthur’s Australia arrival. U S and Britain chart strikes, bombings, and political moves from India to the Pacific to Europe.
May Day World War II Headlines and U.S. Home Front Measures
Highlights include Hitler and Mussolini meeting in Salzburg and the U.S. enrollment of 150000 women as WAACs noncombatants. Soviet, Pacific and Atlantic theater events unfold with naval losses, air raids, rationing, and mass mobilization. President actions, war debt, and notable deaths and sports results color the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitler
Mussolini
Salzburg
Army
WAACS
OPA
Madagascar
World War II Daily Wartime Clash Summary
The entry lists events from 1942 including executions of Czechs after Heydrich’s assassination, Allied bombings of Essen, Midway Island battles, fearsome Luftwaffe actions in the Netherlands and the Czech village Lidice razed, U.S. production and tax measures, political moves in allied and axis states, and mass youth draft registration as World War II escalates globally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Essen
Krupp Armament
Aleutians
Attu
Agaita
Kiska
Bulgaria
Romania
Hungary
Midway Island
Reinhard Heydrich
Anglo-American Production Board and Food Board
Lidice
Czech
Senate
Office of War Information
Elmer Davis
Treasury
World War II day by day events and notes
A compact daily chronology lists wartime actions and societal events from July including Sevastopol siege ending, El Alamein actions near Alexandria, American bomber debut, the Army and WAAC developments, Yugoslav guerilla operations, Lidice’s renaming, Br itish naval bombardments, Rommel’s offensives, stock market lull, Sutherland’s death, a $6.27 billion tax bill, Leahy as military adviser, scrap drive totals, British conscripting youths, Koenigsberg raids, Polish exile reports, and other wartime updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sevastopol
Alexandria
el Alamein
Europe
National
Croatia
Zagreb
Whirlaway
Suffolk Downs
Marshal Rommel
Stock Exchange
Supreme Court
George Sutherland
House
Admiral Leahy
Koenigsberg
Berlin
Bataisk
Caucasus
Birmingham
mid-England
Hamburg
Harry L. Hopkins
Louise G. Macy
White House
Essex
World War II Chronology of Major Battles and Events
A chronological roundup lists Allied and Axis actions from August and late 1942 including air armadas bombing Duesseldorf and Kiska, naval losses in the Solomons, U S Marines raiding Makin, British command changes in Africa, Soviet and Chinese offensives, and political shifts in the United States with Bennett’s gubernatorial nomination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duesseldorf
Ringling Bros
Pope Fius
Max Stephan
Detroit
Solomon Islands
Kiska
Aleutians
U.S
Solomons
Ve, Inc
Winston Churchill
Beston
Josef Stalin
U. S
Henderson Mield
Guadalcanal
Grozny
Europe
Reuen
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Africa
Dieppe
France
Bennett
New York
James A. Farley
Roosevelt
Makin Island
Gilbert
Brazil
Germany
Italy
Stalingrad
Duke of Kent
Iceland
Iowa
Tokyo
Chuhsien
Lishui
Henry J. Kaiser
Berlin
Australia
Milne Bay
New Guinea
World War II Timeline Highlights and Axis Advances
The digest lists key World War II events: Togo resigns as Foreign Minister with Tojo as successor, Dieppe prisoners manacled, German and Japanese offensives across Europe, Africa, and the Pacific. Notable items include Stalingrad battles, Guadalcanal actions, Stalwart Allied air campaigns, and political moves such as Churchill warning Italy and Darlan appointing Giraud in Africa. The record also notes Allied victories like the St. Louis Cardinals World Series win and census figures, with ongoing naval battles and strategic bombings shaping the war's course.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genoa
Eddie Rickenbacker
South Pacific
Darlan
General Giraud
Africa
Solomons
Kwwa
Libya
Tinue
el Agheila
Guadalcanal
Navy
Halsey
Dakar
French West Africa
United Nations
U. S
Seattle
Touston
Chiang Kai-shek
World War II Updates from November Front Headlines
November brief items report naval damage at Guadalcanal and a northward retreat, Australian capture of Kokoda, Rommel's retreat in Egypt, British prisoner gains, Republican gains in Congress, armistice and wage limits in Madagascar, Allied landings in French North Africa, and Allied advances with general disclosures on Clark and Eisenhower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stalingrad
Rommel
Egypt
Guadalcanal
New Guinea
Baltimore
Volga
Navy
Kokoda
Dewey
New York
Ritter von Thoma
Afrika Korps
Congress
Imperia
Madagascar
Atlantic
Mediterranean
French North Africa
Algiers
Vichy
France
Hitler
Tunisia
Esenhower
Mark Clark
Ether
December 1942 World War II brief highlights and leadership changes
A compressed wartime digest noting Darlan becomes chief of state in French Africa on December 1, mileage rationing, and revised N Africa losses. Mackenzie King meets Roosevelt as Works Progress Administration dissolves. McNutt named manpower chief and Wickard food production chief. Tank actions near Tes bourba hills, Pearl Harbor commemorations, and political shifts including Harrison Spangler as GOP chair. Also battles in Italy and Moscow, submarine losses, Redskins top Bears, and Afrika Korps encirclement reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Darlan
French Africa
North Africa
Mackenzie King of
Canada
Roosevelt
Works Progress Administraten
Navy
Pearl Hatel
Paul V. McNutt
Claude Wickard
Tesbourba
Bond
Pearl Harbor
Harrison Spangler
Iowa
Turin
Italy
Hitler
Kurt Zeitzler
Cal
Hans Jesschonnek
Air Force
Frick
MacArthur
Gona
U. S
Eighth Army
Washington Redskins
Chicago Bears
Rzhev
Moscow
Leon Henderson
Afrika Korps
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Mapes
Acremonas
Sgt
Jape
Bettie Manansi
Cates Voces
Srapere Sit Nemys
Cherrelel
Wierard
Moail
China
William Davis
War Labor Board
Joe Louis
Uncle Son
Bataan
Donald Nelson
Rio
William
Knudsen
War Department
Tokyo Harbor
Walther von Reichenau
John L. Lewis
A. F. of
Saral Lombard
Nevada
Joe DiMaggio
Chile
Anasatins
Grouue
Washington
New Britain
Iraq
Lezse
Finland
Gorrings
Ankara
Turkey
von Papen
Maxim Litvinov
Walter Short
CRA Ad Ces
Wades
Netherlands East Indies
Paris
Port Darwin
George Sylvester Viereck
U. S.-Canada
Rangoon
Joseph W. Stilweet
Rio de Janeiro
California
East
offRusain
Douglas MacArthur Arives
Joseph W. Stillwell
Burma
War Production Board
Sir Stafford Cripps
India
Andaman
Roenst
Boris
Helland
Pran Meselle
Nownees
Akyab
Langley
Cameroons
French Equatorial Africa
Mandalay
Cornelius Warmerdam
George Marshall
London
Bataan Falls
Ceylon
Corregidor
AEF
Stars and Stripes
Hugh
Johnson
NRA
Ruhr
St. Nazaire
Havre
Low Countries
Adms
William D. Leahy
Vichy France
Yokohama
Kobe
Nagoya
Pierre Laval
Main Street, U. S. A
Hiller
Suner
Franco
Rostock
Heinkel
New Caledonia
Henri Giraud
New York City
Inter-American Defense Board
Corregidor Falls
Coral Sea
Ixed
Aniv
Winston ‘Churchill
Philippine
St. Lawrence River
Marlinique
Guadaloupe
French Guiana
Mississippi
Earl Browder
W. S
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Mannheim
Hermann Toering
Mexico
Bohemia
Heydrich
Prague
John Barrymore
Cologne
Sam Snead
Midway
We Jose
Yorktown
NEA Servis
Wilhelmine
Erie Railroad
Bardia
Litya
Tobruk
Neus
de Gaulle
Romenel
Peter
Yugoslavia
Dwight D. Bienshewer
U. S. Army
Washington-London
Matruh
Tulagi Land
Solo
Bombay
New Delhi
Togo
Tojo
Britain
Karlsruhe
Railway
Pro
Wisconsin
William M. Jeffers
U. S. Cartier Wasp
Tenaru
Guadal“canal
Winlkie
Stalin
Victory
St. Louis Cardinals
England
Willkie
Chungking
Aleniana
Goering
New York Yankees
Joseph C. Grew
Japan
Tommy" Touhy
Thinois
Crete
Malta
Savo Island
Henderson Field
Liberia
Gestapo
British Admiralty
May Robson
William F. Halsey, Jr
Robert L. Ghormley
Milan
U. 5 S
Fleers
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