INTO THE CAUCASUS

25 JULY− 9 NOVEMBER 1942 19 AUGUST 1942 Start of “Sinyavino” offensive against German blockade of Leningrad. 10 SEPTEMBER 1942 British troops sent to India to quell political unrest. 14 SEPTEMBER 1942 US troops win the Battle of Bloody Ridge on the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomons. 24 SEPTEMBER 1942 General Franz Halder, German Chief of Staff , is sacked by Hitler and replaced by General Kurt Zeitzler. 23 OCTOBER 1942 Start of the second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt which rolls back the Axis threat. 5 NOVEMBER 1942 General Eisenhower sets up headquarters for the invasion of North Africa in the British colony of Gibraltar. The extraordinary success of Operation “Blue” in the first week of July 1942 against the weaker southern Soviet front tempted Hitler to…

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