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The following events occurred in September 1942:

September 1, 1942 (Tuesday)

September 2, 1942 (Wednesday)

September 3, 1942 (Thursday)

September 4, 1942 (Friday)

September 5, 1942 (Saturday)

September 6, 1942 (Sunday)

September 7, 1942 (Monday)

September 8, 1942 (Tuesday)

September 9, 1942 (Wednesday)

September 10, 1942 (Thursday)

  • German forces of the 29th Motorized Division broke through to the Volga River on the southern side of Stalingrad. The Soviet 62nd Army was hit along the frontline, with its forces defending just 2 km from the heart of the city.
  • The RAF dropped 100,000 bombs on Düsseldorf in less than an hour.[3]
  • The Italian hospital ship Arno was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean by British aircraft.
  • German submarine U-639 was commissioned.
  • Died: Walter Zellot, 21, German fighter ace (shot down over Stalingrad)

September 11, 1942 (Friday)

September 12, 1942 (Saturday)

September 13, 1942 (Sunday)

September 14, 1942 (Monday)

September 15, 1942 (Tuesday)

September 16, 1942 (Wednesday)

September 17, 1942 (Thursday)

September 18, 1942 (Friday)

September 19, 1942 (Saturday)

September 20, 1942 (Sunday)

September 21, 1942 (Monday)

September 22, 1942 (Tuesday)

September 23, 1942 (Wednesday)

September 24, 1942 (Thursday)

September 25, 1942 (Friday)

  • Four British de Havilland Mosquito bombers conducted the Oslo Mosquito raid, intended to boost morale of the Norwegian people. The operation failed as the Mosquito bombs failed to destroy the Gestapo HQ but caused 80 civilian casualties and one bomber was lost.
  • The Oslo Mosquito raid against Gestapo HQ was scheduled to coincide with a rally of Norwegian collaborators, led by Vidkun Quisling; from September 25 to 27 his Norwegian Nazi party Nasjonal Samling ('National Unity') held its 8th national convention in Oslo, Norway.
  • German submarine U-253 sank in the Atlantic Ocean northwest of Iceland, probably lost to a British naval mine.
  • The aviation-themed action film Desperate Journey starring Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan was released.

September 26, 1942 (Saturday)

September 27, 1942 (Sunday)

September 28, 1942 (Monday)

September 29, 1942 (Tuesday)

September 30, 1942 (Wednesday)

References

  1. "War Diary for Tuesday, 1 September 1942". Stone & Stone Second World War Books. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Williams, Mary H. (1960). Special Studies, Chronology, 1941–1945. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 53–56.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Mercer, Derrik, ed. (1989). Chronicle of the 20th Century. London: Chronicle Communications Ltd. p. 572. ISBN 978-0-582-03919-3.
  4. "War Diary for Wednesday, 2 September 1942". Stone & Stone Second World War Books. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  5. Hellbeck, Jochen (2015). Stalingrad: The City that Defeated the Third Reich. PublicAffairs. p. 141. ISBN 978-1-61039-497-0.
  6. "Execution of I.R.A. Murderer Causes Demonstrations, Strikes". The Examiner. Launceston: 1. September 4, 1942.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Polmar, Norman; Allen, Thomas B. (2012). World War II: the Encyclopedia of the War Years, 1941–1945. Dover Publications. pp. 25–26. ISBN 978-0-486-47962-0.
  8. 1 2 3 "1942". World War II Database. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  9. Loeffel, Robert (2012). The Family Punishment in Nazi Germany: Sippenhaft, Terror and Myth. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-230-34305-4.
  10. "War Diary for Monday, 7 September 1942". Stone & Stone Second World War Books. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  11. Marley, David F. (2008). Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the Western Hemisphere, 2nd Ed. ABC-CLIO, Inc. p. 1016. ISBN 978-1-59884-100-8.
  12. "Prime Minister Winston Churchill Addressed the House of Commons in a Review of the War". ibiblio. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  13. Martin, Robert Stanley (June 7, 2015). "Comics By the Date: August 1942 to December 1942". The Hooded Utilitarian. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  14. Davidson, Edward; Manning, Dale (1999). Chronology of World War Two. London: Cassell & Co. p. 122. ISBN 0-304-35309-4.
  15. Rohdes, Richard (1995). Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. Simon & Schuster. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-684-82414-7.
  16. 1 2 3 Chronology and Index of the Second World War, 1938–1945. Research Publications. 1990. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-88736-568-3.
  17. "Cards Lead by 1½ Games; Yanks Win Flag". Chicago Daily Tribune. Chicago: Chicago Daily Tribune. September 15, 1942. p. 19.
  18. Davidson and Manning, p. 124.
  19. Manning, Michael Lee (2005). The Battle 100: The Stories Behind History's Most Influential Battles. Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks, Inc. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-4022-2475-1.
  20. Van den Boogaerde, Pierre (2009). Shipwrecks of Madagascar. Strategic Book Publishing. p. 285. ISBN 978-1-61204-339-5.
  21. Perrett, Bryan. "The End of the Beginning, El Alamein, Egypt 1942." Battlegrounds: Geography and the History of Warfare. Ed. Michael Stephenson. Simon & Schuster, 2003. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-7922-3374-9.
  22. 1 2 "Events occurring on Thursday, September 24, 1942". WW2 Timelines. 2011. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  23. 1 2 Bell, J. Bowyer (2009). Besieged: Seven Cities Under Siege. London: Transaction Publishers. p. 134. ISBN 978-1-4128-1797-4.
  24. Stover, John F. (1995). History of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Purdue University Press. ISBN 1-55753-066-1.
  25. "Events occurring on Saturday, September 26, 1942". WW2 Timelines. 2011. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  26. Vaughan, Irving (September 28, 1942). "Cardinals' Two Victories Clinch Pennant". Chicago Daily Tribune. Chicago: Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 17.
  27. "Charlie Gehringer 1942 Batting Gamelogs". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  28. Holloway, David. "Barbarossa and the Bomb: Two Cases of Soviet Intelligence in World War II." Secret Intelligence in the European States System, 1918–1999. Ed. Jonathan Haslam and Karina Urbach. Stanford University Press, 2014. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-8047-8891-5.
  29. Wistrich, Robert S. (2010). A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-1-58836-899-7.
  30. "Events occurring on Wednesday, September 30, 1942". WW2 Timelines. 2011. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
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