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What happened in August 1942

• August 1, 1942: The American Federation of Musicians strikes against recording companies due to royalty disputes.
• August 3, 1942: British convoy Operation Pedestal sails to Malta, facing relentless attacks.
• August 4, 1942: Assassination attempt on Serbian fascist minister Du\u0161an Letica fails.
• August 5, 1942: German forces resume advance towards Stalingrad but are stopped by the Soviet 64th Army.
• August 7, 1942: US Navy and Marine Corps launch the first American offensive of the war, landing on Guadalcanal.
• August 8, 1942: Japanese Imperial Navy defeats US and Australian navies at Savo Island, but withdraws due to potential Allied carrier strike.
• August 9, 1942: Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi is arrested by British forces in Bombay.
• August 11, 1942: Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil's frequency-hopping system for radio-controlled torpedoes is patented.
• August 13, 1942: Quit India resolution passed by All India Congress Committee, leading to civil disobedience movement.
• August 15, 1942: American tanker Ohio reaches Malta as part of Operation Pedestal convoy.
• August 16, 1942: Polish-Jewish teacher Janusz Korczak accompanies Jewish children to the Treblinka extermination camp.
• August 17, 1942: US Marines raid Makin Island to destroy Japanese installations and gather intelligence.
• August 19, 1942: Allied amphibious attack on Dieppe, France, is repulsed with heavy casualties.
• August 20, 1942: Plutonium is isolated for the first time at the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago.
• August 21, 1942: German forces place the Nazi swastika flag on Mount Elbrus, the highest peak in the Caucasus.
• August 22, 1942: Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy.
• August 23, 1942: German forces reach the suburbs of Stalingrad, stabilizing the frontier and taking positions at the Volga River.
• August 24, 1942: Italian cavalry regiment attacks Soviet forces with drawn sabers at Izbushensky, Russia, in one of the last major cavalry charges.
• August 25, 1942: Battle of Milne Bay opens with Japanese marines landing in Milne Bay.
• August 26, 1942: Japanese forces defeat the Australian Maroubra Force at Isurava, delaying actions on the Kokoda Track.
• August 27, 1942: Nazi troops and Ukrainian Auxiliary Police execute over 14,000 people, mostly Jews, in and around Sarny, Poland.
• August 28, 1942: Polish writer Zofia Kossak-Szczucka publishes Protest! leaflet against the mass murder of Jews in German-occupied Poland.
• August 29, 1942: Japanese navy begins night-time deliveries of reinforcements and supplies to forces in New Guinea and Solomon Islands.
• August 30, 1942: Luxembourg is formally annexed to the German Reich.
• August 31, 1942: Luxembourgish general strike launched to protest against forced conscription.