Timeline - 1942
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26 January 1942First American forces arrive in Great Britain.
08 May 1942German summer offensive begins in the Crimea.
26 May 1942Rommel begins an offensive against the Gazala Line.
27 May 1942SS Leader Heydrich attacked in Prague.
30 May 1942First thousand bomber British air raid against Cologne.
04 June 1942Heydrich dies of wounds.
21 June 1942Rommel captures Tobruk.
30 June 1942Rommel reaches El Alamein.
01 July 1942First Battle of El Alamein.
03 July 1942Germans take Sevastopol.
05 July 1942Germans besiege Sevastopol.
05 July 1942Soviet resistance in the Crimea ends.
09 July 1942Germans begin a drive toward Stalingrad.
22 July 1942Treblinka extermination camp opened.
22 July 1942First deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto.
12 August 1942Stalin and Churchill meet in Moscow.
13 August 1942Battle of Stalingrad begins.
17 August 1942First all-American air attack in Europe.
23 August 1942Massive German air raid on Stalingrad.
18 October 1942Hitler orders the execution of all captured British commandos.




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