Table of Data Points

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1942-05-30Cologne Bombing

The first 1,000 bomber raid by the RAF was codenamed Operation Millennium. 1047 Aircraft were involved in the raid, with 868 of those dropping high explosive and incendiary bombs on the center of the city.

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1942-05-27Operation Anthropoid

The assassination of top German SS leader Reinhard Heydrich, a chief planner of the Final Solution, the Nazi German programme for the genocide of the Jews of Europe.

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1942-05-261942-06-21Gazala

Despite Rommel's resounding tactical defeat of the British 8th Army, Axis armour losses were irreplaceable. Rommel was not able to take advantage of this success.

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1942-05-261942-06-11Bir Hakeim

Free French forces resist the Axis advance for 16 days, giving the retreating British Eighth Army enough time to reorganize, allowing them subsequently to halt the Axis advance at the First Battle of El Alamein.

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1942-05-22Mexico joins Allies

Mexico enters the war on the side of the allies.

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1942-05-13U-69 sinks Norlantic

Seven mariners are killed when the German U-69 sinks the American merchant ship SS Nolantic with torpedoes and shell fire.

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1942-05-121942-05-28Second Kharkov

Soviet forces under Marshal Timoshenko launch an offensive against the German 6th Army. After initial gains, critical errors in the Soviet command led to a pincer counter-attack by the 6th Army, cutting off almost 200,000 Soviet troops.

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1942-05-09Zinkiv Massacre

SS troops murder five hundred and eighty eight Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv.

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1942-05-08Sinking of USS Lexington

Scuttled following damage inflicted by Japanese airstrikes during the battle of the Coral Seas

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1942-05-08Cocos Island Mutiny

A failed attempt by soldiers of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery to disable the local British garrison and transfer control to the Japanese. The three executed ringleaders were the only British troops executed for mutiny during ww2.

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