A medal awarded to women who served in the Women Army Auxiliary Corps from 10 July 1942 to 31 August 1943, and to the Women Army Corps from 1 September 1943 to 2 September 1945 featured Athena on the front.

( Churchill sent a telegram to Alexander on 23 September 1942 which began, " We are in your hands and of course a victorious battle makes amends for much delay.

In addition the Battle of Alam el Halfa ( 30 August-5 September 1942 ), was fought between both battles and in the same location.

In September 1942, Japanese daily rations on New Guinea consisted of 800 grams of rice and tinned meat.

From 16 June 1940-1942 the colonial administration remained loyal to Vichy France ( from 1942, under Free French ), but 25 September 1942-13 October 1946 they were, like Madagascar, under British occupation.

Cecilia Beaux ( May 1, 1855 – September 7, 1942 ) was an American society portraitist, in the manner of John Singer Sargent.

* Compton, A. H. " Establishing Site X: Letter, Arthur H. Compton to Enrico Fermi, September 14, 1942 ", United States Department of Energy ( through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission, ( September 1942 ).

After the September 1942 Conference at Pezë, the National Liberation Front was founded with the purpose of uniting the anti-Fascist Albanians, regardless of ideology or class.

As early as September 1942, Dr. Johann Paul Kremer, M. D., an SS physician, witnessed a gassing of prisoners, and in his diary wrote: " They don't call Auschwitz the camp of annihilation Lager der Vernichtung for nothing!

* 1942 September – A small group of Gibraltarians, who remained in the town serving in the British Army, joined a mechanic official, Albert Risso, to create ' The Gibraltarians Association ', the starting point of what became the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights ( officially established in December that year ), the first political party in Gibraltar.

In September 1942, the party organized a popular front organization, the National Liberation Movement ( NLM ), from a number of resistance groups, including several that were strongly anticommunist.

With the intention of organizing a partisan resistance, they called a general conference in Pezë on 16 September 1942 where the Albanian National Liberation Front was set up.

After the Fall of Singapore to Japan, he became a prisoner of war at Changi Prison from February 1942 to September 1945.

In September 1942, after a meeting with Hitler, who was most unhappy with his Foreign Minister's actions, Ribbentrop promptly changed course and ordered that the deportations be resumed immediately.

With his third wife, Beryl, he had three children, Johnny Weissmuller, Jr. ( September 23, 1940 – July 27, 2006 ), Wendy Anne Weissmuller ( b. June 1, 1942 ), and Heidi Elizabeth Weissmuller ( July 31, 1944 – November 19, 1962 ).

The latter measure was applied after the so-called general strike from 1 September to 3 September 1942, which paralyzed the administration, agriculture, industry and education as response to the declaration of forced conscription by the German administration on 30 August 1942.

On 12 September 1942,, carrying some 80 civilians, 268 British Army soldiers, about 1, 800 Italian prisoners of war, and 160 Polish soldiers ( on guard ), was struck and sunk by a torpedo from Kriegsmarine submarine off the coast of west Africa.

This incident led to German Admiral Dönitz issuing the Triton Null signal on 17 September 1942, which came to be known as the " Laconia Order "; the signal forbade submarine commanders from rescuing survivors from torpedoed ships.

Auschwitz had for a long time been a German name for Oświęcim, the town by and around which the camps were located ; the name " Auschwitz " was made the official name again by the Germans after they invaded Poland in September 1939.

Ghent was occupied by the Germans in both World Wars but escaped severe destruction and was liberated by the British 7th Desert Rats Armoured Division on September 6, 1944.

The Italian zone was taken over by the Germans in September 1943.

After the surrender of the Italian Army in September 1943, Albania was occupied by the Germans and soon exploded into a ferocious guerilla war.

Failing to prevent the Germans from surrounding Leningrad however, he was dismissed from that post and replaced by the far abler Georgy Zhukov on 8 September 1941.

It was quickly taken by the Germans during the Battle of Maastricht in May 1940, but on 14 September 1944 it was also the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.

On 21 September, the Soviets and Germans signed a formal agreement coordinating military movements in Poland, including the " purging " of saboteurs.

While four of the Black September members held the pilots at gunpoint ( breaking an earlier promise that they would not take any Germans hostage ), Issa and Tony walked over to inspect the jet, only to find it empty.

Unfortunately not a whole lot of very old buildings are left in town: first the Americans carpet-bombed it in February 1944, later the Germans shelled it for about five months after the liberation in September 1944, and finally there were a lot of very rigorous city planners in the 1950s, 60's and 70's who finished what the Americans and Germans started.

Despite all this, the Germans and Allies clashed on San Marino's soil in late September 1944 at the Battle of Monte Pulito ; Allied troops occupied San Marino after that, but only stayed for two months before returning the Republic's sovereignty.

* September 19 – WWII: The Poznan pocket collapses, and the Germans capture, according to many sources, over 150, 000 men.

* September 5 – The Jews of Wolbrom, Poland were rounded up by the Germans and their collaborators.

* September 30 – Nearly 7, 000 East Germans who had come to Prague on special refugee trains are allowed to leave for the West.

* September 12 – Battle of Vienna: The Ottoman siege of the city is broken with the arrival of a force of 70, 000 Polish, Austrians and Germans under Polish-Lithuanian king Jan III Sobieski, whose cavalry turns their flank ( considered to be the turning point in the Ottoman Empire's fortunes ).

Between September and November 1940, the ethnic Germans of Bessarabia were offered resettlement to Germany, following a German-Soviet agreement.

* September 21 – Battle of St. Matthew's Day: The Germans defeat the Estonians.

The halt of the Third Army during the month of September was enough to allow the Germans to further fortify the fortress of Metz.

As the Germans started to retreat on 18 September 1944, Jüri Uluots, the last Prime Minister of the Estonian Republic prior to Soviet occupation, assumed the responsibilities of president ( as dictated in the Constitution ) and appointed a new government while seeking recognition from the Allies.

On 12 September 1943, Mussolini was rescued by the Germans in Operation Oak and placed in charge of a puppet state called the Italian Social Republic ( Repubblica Sociale Italiana / RSI, or Repubblica di Salò ) in northern Italy.

On September 19 the Germans began to besiege Paris.

On September 19, the Germans surrounded it and erected a blockade, as already established and ongoing at Metz.

Between 26 September and 3 October the Germans attacked at least 24 times.

A larger attack by the Germans on 25 September recaptured pillboxes at the south western end of Polygon Wood at the cost of heavy casualties.

On his return to Britain he wrote an article for The Daily Express of 17 September in which he praised Hitler and said " The Germans have definitely made up their minds never to quarrel with us again ".