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	1942-09-27		Air war resumes	The lull in the air war, due to bad weather, that had lasted from September 14 ends with a Japanese air raid on Henderson field.	Read about 'Air war resumes' on WikiPedia	Discuss 'Air war resumes'
	1942-09-18		Reinforcements	4157 men from the 3rd Provisional Marine Brigade, 137 vehicles, tents, aviation fuel, ammo, food and engineering equipment, runing the gauntlet of 'torpedo alley', arrive at the Lunga peninsula and provide vital support to its beleaguered defenders.	Read about 'Reinforcements' on WikiPedia	Discuss 'Reinforcements'
	1942-09-16		Mamayev Kurgan Recaptured	Soviet 13th Guards Rifle Division arrived in the city from across the river Volga under heavy artillery fire. The division's 10,000 men immediately rushed into the battle. They recaptured Mamayev Kurgan and kept fighting for the railway station.	Read about 'Mamayev Kurgan Recaptured' on WikiPedia	Discuss 'Mamayev Kurgan Recaptured'
	1942-09-15		Sinking of the USS Wasp	Scuttled following torpedo damaged inflicted by Japanese submarine I-19	Read about 'Sinking of the USS Wasp' on WikiPedia	Discuss 'Sinking of the USS Wasp'
	1942-09-13		Mamayev Kurgan Falls	The Soviets had built strong defensive lines on the slopes of the hill, including trenches, barbed-wire and minefields. The Germans pushed forward against the hill, taking heavy casualties, but eventually taking the heights.	Read about 'Mamayev Kurgan Falls' on WikiPedia	Discuss 'Mamayev Kurgan Falls'
	1942-09-12	1942-09-14	Edson Ridge	U.S. Marines led by General Vandegrift, repulsed an attack by Kawaguchi's 35th Infantry Brigade. The Marines were defending the southern ridgeline that guarded Henderson Field on Guadalcanal. The second of three major Japanese offensives on the island.	Read about 'Edson Ridge' on WikiPedia	Discuss 'Edson Ridge'
	1942-09-11		Charlottetown Sunk	HMCS Charlottetown is torpedoed and sunk by U-517 in the Gulf of St Lawrence. Her captain, John W. Bonner, and eight other crewmen are killed.	Read about 'Charlottetown Sunk' on WikiPedia	Discuss 'Charlottetown Sunk'
	1942-08-30	1942-09-05	Alam el Halfa	The last major Axis offensive of the Western Desert campaign, Rommel had planned to defeat the British Eighth Army before Allied reinforcements made an Axis victory in Africa impossible. Rommel's attack failed and he was forced to withdraw.	Read about 'Alam el Halfa' on WikiPedia	Discuss 'Alam el Halfa'
	1942-08-26		Chortkiv Holocaust	At 2:30 am in the morning the German Schutzpolizei started driving Chortkiv's 2000 Jews out of their houses, split them in groups of 120 and them to the Belzec death camp. 500 Jewish sick and children were murdered on the spot.	Read about 'Chortkiv Holocaust' on WikiPedia	Discuss 'Chortkiv Holocaust'
	1942-08-25	1942-09-07	Milne Bay	"Australian troops had, at Milne Bay in New Guinea, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. If the Australians, in conditions very like ours, had done it, so could we." British Field Marshal Sir William Slim	Read about 'Milne Bay' on WikiPedia	Discuss 'Milne Bay'

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