Video: Churchill in Egypt Aug. 9, 1942 (at 0:24)
(Sunday, August 9, 1942, part of Western Desert Campaign of World War II) — Cheering troops lined the road today to welcome British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during his tour of armoured units at Tel-El-Kebir, Egypt, about two weeks after the First Battle of El Alamein ended.
Video: Germans enter Rostow (at 4:47)
(Thursday, July 23, 1942, during Case Blue, the German summer offensive of 1942, part of the Eastern Front of World War II) — With heavy air support from the Ju 87s of Sturzkampfgeschwader 77, Germany’s Army Group A today recaptured Rostov, the “gate to the Caucasus,” without much resistance.
Video: 'The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank' (Franks go into hiding, at 1:49)
(Saturday July 18, 1942, part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The Franks and van Pels, Jews now in hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam, treat helpers Miep and Jan Gies to a “banquet” in the Secret Annex as their way of congratulating them on their first wedding anniversary.
Video: 'Anne Frank: The Whole Story Part 6' (July 13, 1942, at 6:31)
(Monday, July 13, 1942, part of The Holocaust during World War II) — Anne Frank’s family was joined in hiding today by the van Pels family: Hermann, Auguste, and 16-year-old Peter. The Franks (Otto, Edith, Margot and Anne) had gone into hiding on July 6 in rooms above and behind the premises of her father’s business on the Prinsengracht, a street along one of Amsterdam’s canals, where some of his most trusted employees would help the two Jewish families escape Nazi persecution.
Video: Rommel reaches El Alamein (at 8:15)
(Tuesday, June 30, 1942, part of Western Desert Campaign of World War II) — Following the Battle of Gazala, Field Marshal (Generalfeldmarschall) Erwin Rommel’s Panzer Army Africa today approached the British at an insignificant railway station at El Alamein, 66 miles from Alexandria, in preparation for the First Battle of El Alamein, which would begin tomorrow.
Video: German offensive begins (at 0:00)
(Sunday, June 28, 1942, part of the Eastern Front of World War II) — Nazi Germany started its strategic summer offensive in southern Russia today against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue, with Fourth Panzer Army starting its drive towards Voronezh. Continue reading Germans launch offensive in southern Russia 70 years ago today (1942)
Video: 'Newsreel about German Saboteurs & Spies in the U.S. during World War II'
(Saturday, June 27, 1942, during Operation Pastorius, part of World War II) — The FBI announced tonight the arrests of eight Nazi saboteurs, highly trained by direction of the German High Command at a special school for sabotage near Berlin, who had been put ashore in Florida and Long Island, New York. Continue reading FBI announces the arrests of eight Nazi saboteurs 70 years ago tonight (1942)
Video: '1000 Plane Raid June 26 1942'
(Friday, June 26, 1942, part of strategic bombing during World War II) — Some 1,000 British Royal Air Force bombers completed an overnight raid on Bremen, Germany, early this morning, the RAF’s third “thousand bomber raid.” of the war. 572 houses were completely destroyed and 6,108 damaged. 85 people were killed, 497 injured and 2,378 bombed out.
Video: Beaverbrook speaks June 21, 1942 (at 7:01)
(Sunday, June 21, 1942) — A militant call for the immediate opening of a second front, coupled with the claim that the army is now adequately equipped to carry out a continental invasion, was voiced in Birmingham, England, today by Britain’s Lord Beaverbrook.
Video: 'Wartime Nutrition (1943) '
(Saturday, June 13, 1942, during World War II) — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Office of War Information (OWI) today to consolidate government information services, and appointed radio news commentator Elmer Davis to be its head.
