Timeline of World War II (1942)
List of significant events occurring during World War II in 1942
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1942, clockwise from top left: British artillery barrage opens the
Battle of El Alamein
; the
Jews of Salonika
are rounded up for deportation to
extermination camps
; Soviet troops of the
Great Patriotic War
fight the
Battle of Stalingrad
;
USS
Lexington
(CV-2)
under fire at the
Battle of the Coral Sea
;
Reinhard Heydrich
's car after
attack by Czech resistance
;
5th SS Panzer Division Wiking
troops work on the
Case Blue
plan to supply the
Axis Powers
with needed petroleum supplies
This is a
timeline of events that occurred during
World War II
in 1942.