• 1942 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in July 1942: The First Battle...
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  • The list of shipwrecks in July 1942 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during July 1942. "D/S Cadmus". Warsailors. Retrieved...
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  • Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 5 July 1942. Although the Independence Party won a plurality of votes, the Progressive Party remained...
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    Between February 1942 and November 1943, during the Pacific War of World War II, the Australian mainland, domestic airspace, offshore islands, and coastal...
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    750 tons of artillery ammunition on them during Störfang. Finally, on 4 July 1942, the remaining Soviet forces surrendered and the Germans seized the port...
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  • 1942 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1942. 1942 (MCMXLII)...
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    (280 mi) south of Moscow, from 28 June-24 July 1942, as opening move of the German summer offensive in 1942. The battle was marked by heavy urban fighting...
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    operations in the Caucasus as part of the Eastern Front of World War II. On 25 July 1942, German troops captured Rostov-on-Don, opening the Caucasus region of...
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    Rzhev–Sychyovka offensive operation, which was defined as spanning from 30 July to 23 August 1942. However, it is widely documented that the fighting continued undiminished...
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    Vichy France (category Wikipedia articles needing page number citations from July 2021)
    had been rounded up for deportation to death camps in July 1942. "France, on that day [16 July 1942], committed the irreparable. Breaking its word, it handed...
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  • Paco Stanley (category 1942 births)
    Francisco Jorge Stanley Albaitero (3 July 1942 – 7 June 1999), known by his stage name Paco Stanley, was a Mexican television entertainer who worked for...
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    in the Australian Territory of New Guinea, from 23 January into February 1942. It was a strategically significant defeat of Allied forces by Japan in the...
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  • defensive 7–24 July 1942 Donbas defensive (1942) (ru) : 7–24 July 1942 Battle of Rostov (1942) 19–24 July 1942 German Operation Seydlitz 12 July 1942 Stalingrad...
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  • Aircraft is Missing July 1942 2 July Sons of the Pioneers 8 July The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (France) 9 July I Married an Angel 10 July The Magnificent...
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    bunker 2, was converted and operational by June 1942. When Himmler visited the camp on 17 and 18 July 1942, he was given a demonstration of a selection of...
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    Dutch citizen. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, they went into hiding in concealed rooms behind a bookcase in the building...
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    Friedrich-Wilhelm Bock (June 1942) SS-Hauptsturmführer Ernst Schmücker (June 19421942) SS-Sturmbannführer Wilhelm Blühm (1942July 1943) SS-Sturmbannführer...
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    New York Times. 16 July 1942. p. 22. The New York Times, 21 July 1942. p. 22. "Of Local Origin". The New York Times. 30 September 1942. p. 29. Higham, Charles;...
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    Battle of Stalingrad (category 1942 in the Soviet Union)
    The Battle of Stalingrad (17 July 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and its...
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    mid-July 1942 but cancelled. The siege of Malta eased after the Allied victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein (23 October – 11 November 1942). The...
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    29 June 1942. She then returned to Japan and spent July 1942 in the Tokyo Bay area. On 14 July 1942, she again became flagship of Seaplane Tender Division...
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    Flying Tigers (category Military units and formations disestablished in 1942)
    formed to help oppose the Japanese invasion of China. Operating in 1941–1942, it was composed of pilots from the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC)...
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    Reinhard: Sobibór (ready in May 1942) under the command of Hauptsturmführer Franz Stangl, and Treblinka (operational by July 1942) under Obersturmführer Irmfried...
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    aerial victories respectively. On 9 March 1942, then again on 12 July 1942, 13 July 1942 and 22 July 1942, Erwin Clausen, Luftwaffe fighter pilot on...
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    and the city surrendered on 4 July 1942, although some Soviet troops held out in caves outside of the city until 9 July.[additional citation(s) needed]...
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    Victor Kalashnikov (category 1942 births)
    July 1942 – 27 March 2018) was a Russian small arms designer known for developing the PP-19 Bizon submachine gun. Kalashnikov was born 16 July 1942 in...
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  • American journalist and producer 1941 – Henry Lowther, English trumpet player 1942 – Darrell Eastlake, Australian sportscaster (d. 2018) 1943 – Richard Carleton...
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    Doolittle's Raid, as well as the Tokyo Raid, was an air raid on 18 April 1942 by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu...
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    Battle of the Atlantic (category Use British English from July 2018)
    used elsewhere. On July 19, 1942, he ordered the last boats to withdraw from the United States Atlantic coast; by the end of July 1942 he had shifted his...
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    Final Solution (category 1942 in Europe)
    mid-1942, two more death camps had been built on Polish lands: Sobibór operational by May 1942, and Treblinka operational in July. From July 1942, the...
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