1942 – Nineteen-Forty-Two

 

1 January – Atlantic Charter is signed

11 January – Japanese invade Timor, Celebes, and Dutch Borneo

15 February – General Arthur Percival surrenders Singapore to the Japanese

27 February – A large naval battle takes place in the Java Sea. Two Dutch cruisers, a Dutch destroyer, and a British destroyer are sunk.

9 April – Bataan death march

18 April – Doolitle raid on Japan. The first American air raid on Japan.

2 – 8 May – Battle of the Coral Seal

4 – 7 June – Battle of Midway

15 June – An air and naval battle takes place at Pantelleria, in the Mediterranean

20 June – The Afrikakorps and the Italian XX Corps assault Tobruk. Axis accepts General Klopper’s surrender the next day.

1 July – First battle of El Alamein stops the Afrikacorps’s advance

10 August – Operation Pedestal, the dispatch of a big supply convoy to Malta, began

13 August – The German Sixth Army, under General Friedrich Paulus, assaults Stalingrad

6 September – Battle of Alam Haifa

1 – 12 October – Air and naval battle of Cape Esperance at Guadalcanal

8 November – Amphibious attack by the allies on Morocco and Algeria called Operation Torch

11 November – German troops invade unoccupied France

30 – 31 December – Naval battle at the Barents Sea

 

1942