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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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