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 | 1943-02-14 | 1943-02-17 | Sidi Bou Zid | US troops from the 1st Armoured Division CCA (Combat Command A), CCB and CCC is forced to retreat after losing losing 46 medium tanks, 130 vehicles and 9 self-propelled guns. | Read about 'Sidi Bou Zid' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Sidi Bou Zid' |
| 1943-01-23 | Tripoli Captured | With Rommel withdrawing to the French-built southern defenses of Tunisia, the Mareth Line, following the Second Battle of El Alamein. The British 8th Army enter Tripoli. | Read about 'Tripoli Captured' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Tripoli Captured' | |
| 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' | |
| 1942-10-23 | 1942-11-05 | Second El Alamein | This Allied victory turned the tide in the North African Campaign. It ended Axis hopes of occupying Egypt, taking control of the Suez Canal, and gaining access to the Middle Eastern oil fields. | Read about 'Second El Alamein' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Second El Alamein' |
| 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' |
| 1942-08-24 | Italian Cavalry | Supported by the dismounted 4th Squadron and the Savoia regiment MG squadron they broke the back of the 2000-strong Siberian 812th Infantry Regiment who had pushed a gap between the German 6th and Italian armies on the Don. | Read about 'Italian Cavalry' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Italian Cavalry' | |
| 1942-08-09 | 1942-08-15 | Operation Pedestal | Five of the original 14 merchant ships, dispatched to resupply the strategical crucial island of Malta, reach Grand Harbour. This tactical axis victory was one of the most important strategic allied victory of the war. | Read about 'Operation Pedestal' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Operation Pedestal' |
| 1942-07-17 | 1943-03-02 | Battle of Stalingrad | The bloodiest in the history of warfare, with combined casualties estimated at nearly two million. The battle which eventually trapped and destroyed the German 6th Army and other Axis forces around the city, was the first substantial German land defeat. | Read about 'Battle of Stalingrad' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Battle of Stalingrad' |
| 1942-07-01 | 1942-07-27 | First El Alamein | British and commonwealth troops, following the retreat after Gazala, halt the Axis advance on Alexandria. This tactically inconclusive battle had a profound strategic affect on the Axis forces' ability to wage war. | Read about 'First El Alamein' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'First El Alamein' |
 | 1942-06-21 | 1942-11-11 | Tobruk retaken | After a surprise offensive and victory at the Battle of Gazala, DAK and Italian troops led by Erwin Rommel capture the strategic seaport at Tobruk. | Read about 'Tobruk retaken' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Tobruk retaken' |
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