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 | 1943-01-14 | 1943-02-07 | Operation Ke | The largely successful withdrawal of Japanese forces from Guadalcanal at the conclusion of the Guadalcanal Campaign. 10,652 men were evactuated from Guadalcanal at a cost of one destroyer sunk and three damaged. | Read about 'Operation Ke' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Operation Ke' |
| 1943-01-14 | 1943-01-24 | Casablanca | A conference to plan the Allied European strategy. It was decided during the conference was that there would be no "cross channel invasion" in 1943. First an invasion into Sicily and then Italy would take place. | Read about 'Casablanca' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Casablanca' |
| 1942-12-24 | Darlan Assasinated | A 20-year-old French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, entered Vichy French Admiral Franois Darlan's headquarters in Algiers and shot him twice. | Read about 'Darlan Assasinated' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Darlan Assasinated' | |
| 1942-12-22 | V-2 Development Begins | Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon. | Read about 'V-2 Development Begins' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'V-2 Development Begins' | |
| 1942-12-20 | Calcutta Bombing | Calcutta is bombed for the first time by the Japanese Air Force. | Read about 'Calcutta Bombing' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Calcutta Bombing' | |
| 1942-12-15 | 1943-01-23 | Battle of the Gifu | US soldiers and marines, assisted by native Solomon Islanders, attacked Japanese Army forces defending well-fortified and entrenched positions on several hills and ridges. | Read about 'Battle of the Gifu' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Battle of the Gifu' |
| 1942-12-12 | 1942-12-23 | Winter Storm | Efforts by General Manstein to break through to the encircled 6th army at Stalingrad. Hitler's explicit order that the 6th army not break out of Stalingrad and Paulus's refusal to disobey that order doomed the attempt. | Read about 'Winter Storm' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Winter Storm' |
| 1942-12-04 | Zegota Created | In Warsaw, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz set up the Zegota organization to aid the country's Jews and find places of safety for them in occupied Poland. | Read about 'Zegota Created' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Zegota Created' | |
| 1942-12-02 | Enrico Fermi's Reactor | A team led by Enrico Fermi, for whom Fermilab is named, initiated the first artificial self sustaining nuclear chain reaction in an experimental nuclear reactor named Chicago Pile-1. | Read about 'Enrico Fermi's Reactor' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Enrico Fermi's Reactor' | |
| 1942-11-30 | Battle of Tassafaronga | A US warship force of 5 cruisers and 4 destroyers attempted to surprise and destroy a Japanese warship force of 8 destroyers. The battle was severe tactical defeat for the US, but with little strategic impact. | Read about 'Battle of Tassafaronga' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Battle of Tassafaronga' |
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