Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor; hitler issues "Night and Fog" decree.
U.S. troops surrender to the Japanese at Corregidor in the Philippine Islands
Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz extermination camp.
Over 90,000 German troops at Stalingrad surrender to Soviets.
U.S. troops complete the capture of Guadalcanal from the Japanese .
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins after German troops attempt to deport the ghetto's last surviving Jews. About 750 Jews fought back the Germans for almost a month.
The Allies begin bombing Hamburg
Marine machine gunners repel a Japanese counter-attack in the jungle of Cape Gloucester.