Eastern Front: Stalin appoints General Andrey Yeryomenko as commander of the Stalingrad southern front

Eastern Front: Germans forces cut the railway line linking Stalingrad to Krasnodar.

Eastern Front: German forces capture Kotelnikovo.

North African Campaign: British started Operation Pedestal, to get desperately needed supplies to Malta.

Eastern Front: German forces cross the Aksay River in its drive towards Stalingrad.

Jewish internees at Breendonk are sent to the Mechelen transit camp in preparation for deportation to Auschwitz.

Eastern Front: German forces take Voroshilovsk in its drive towards Stalingrad.

Eastern Front: German forces on the Eastern Front captured Tikhoretsk and Armavir.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Major night-time British air raid, 210+ aircraft attack on Duisburg, Germany. Significant damage to industrial areas

Dzyatlava massacre: During the liquidation of the Zdzięcioł Ghetto several thousand Jews were murdered at the local Jewish cemetery.

Pacific Campaign: The start of the Guadalcanal Campaign. The Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo began. Allied forces consisting mostly of U.S. Marines made amphibious landings in the southern Solomon Islands in the first major offensive by the Allies against Japan.

Prime Minster Winston Churchill visited the British troops at El Alamein.

Eastern Front: German forces crossed the Don at Kalach

World Bantamweight Boxing Title Manuel Ortiz (USA) beat Lou Salica (USA) Pts 12, Legion Stadium, Hollywood.

Pacific Campaign: The Battle of Savo Island, the first major naval engagement of the Guadalcanal Campaign

Pacific Campaign: American forces capture the unfinished Japanese airbase on Guadalcanal. The base was named Henderson Field after the Battle of Midway hero Lofton R. Henderson.

Football International: Japan 6-1 China (Japanese Occupied China), Hsinking (Changchun)

Pacific Campaign: The Battle of Savo Island ended in a tactical Japanese victory.

Bombay police arrested Mahatma Gandhi and fifty other members of the Indian National Congress a few hours before a massive civil disobedience campaign was to begin. Five people were killed later in the day when police fired on crowds of people who were jeering and throwing stones.

Eastern Front: German forces capture Krasnodar and the Soviet oil centre of Maykop.

Pacific Campaign: The Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo ended in Allied victory.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Major night-time British air raid, 190+ aircraft attack on Osnabruck, Germany. Dock area damaged

Football International: Manchukuo 1-3 Japan, Hsinking (Changchun)

While on his way to Moscow, Winston Churchill stopped at Tehran and had lunch with the Shah of Iran.

Eastern Front: German forces crossed the lower Don River and reached the outskirts of Stalingrad. Forward elements reach Pyatigorsk.

Football International: Japan 12-0 Mongolia, Hsinking (Changchun)

Vichy French Prime Minster Pierre Laval reaches an agreement with the Germans that 150,000 French workers would go to Germany in exchange for 50,000 French prisoners of war.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Major night-time British air raid, 150+ aircraft attack on Mainz, Germany. The Centre of the city damaged

The Second Moscow Conference began. In attendance were Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and U.S. representative W. Averell Harriman.

Eastern Front: German forces reach Slavyansk.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Major night-time British air raid, 130+ aircraft attack on Mainz, Germany. Damage to industrial areas

Japan pass the Enemy Airmen's Act, stating that Allied airmen participating in bombing raids against Japanese-held territory would be treated as "violators of the law of war" and subject to trial and punishment if captured.

Eastern Front: German forces capture Elista.

North African Campaign: General Bernard Montgomery took over command of the British Eighth Army following the death of William Gott.

North African Campaign: General Dwight D. Eisenhower was named Anglo-American commander for Operation Torch.

British Commandos carried out Operation Barricade, an overnight raid on an anti-aircraft gun and radar site northwest of Pointe de Saire, France.

Arrival of Americal Oiler Ohio at Grand Harbour Malta

5,000 Jews were arrested in Vichy France.

Eastern Front: German forces capture Georgiyevsk and reached the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Major night-time British air raid, 130+ aircraft attack on Dusseldorf, Germany. Visibility is poor, results poor

North African Campaign: Axis positions in Egypt were bombed by American warplanes for the first time.

Eastern Front: German forces establish a bridgehead across the Kuban River.

Football International: Germany 7-0 Romania, Hindenburg Stadium, Beuthen

Football International: Chosen (Occupied Korea) 5-0 Japan, Seoul

Allied Bomber Offensive: Major night-time British air raid, 190+ aircraft attack on Osnabruck, Germany. Some damage to the city centre

1,700 Jews were massacred in the Polish village of Łomazy by Reserve Police Battalion 101.

Pacific Campaign: 900 Japanese troops landed at Taivu Point on Guadalcanal, while another 500 landed at Kokumbona. These landings were the first run of what the U.S. Marines nicknamed the Tokyo Express.

Adolf Hitler issued Directive No. 46, Instructions for Intensified Action Against Banditry in the East.

Eastern Front: Soviet forces withdrew southwest of Kletskaya while the Germans renewed their offensive northeast of Kotelnikovo.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Major night-time British air raid, 110+ aircraft attack on Flensburg, Germany. The first use of pathfinder force. Poor results because of bad weather

The Dieppe Raid took place on the northern coast of France. The operation was virtually a complete failure and almost 60% of the 6,086 men who made it ashore were killed, wounded or captured. Later research uncovered British military archival files that documented a "pinch" mission overseen by Ian Fleming (best known later as author of the James Bond novels), coinciding with the Dieppe Raid. British 30 Commando (Special Intelligence Unit) was ordered to reach the German admiralty headquarters in the town and capture a four-rotor Enigma machine & any codebooks. The mission failed, one member of the group was killed, another seriously wounded, and two taken prisoner. It is still disputed if the whole attack was cover for this 'pinch' of a four-rotor Enigma machine.

Mahatma Gandhi's son Devdas was arrested in New Delhi for publishing an article on the Indian civil disobedience campaign in violation of the Defence of India Act.

Eastern Front: Soviet forces began the Sinyavino Offensive on the southern shore of Lake Ladoga.

The Battle of Kupres ended with the forces of the Independent State of Croatia successfully defending the town against the Yugoslav Partisans.

Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy

Eastern Front: The Battle of Stalingrad began. The Luftwaffe conducted the first major bombing raid on Stalingrad. A rain of incendiary and explosive bombs killed more than 40,000 civilians and reduced most of the city to rubble. German 16th Panzer Division came within striking distance of the Stalingrad Tractor Factory, the Soviet Union's largest producer of T-34 tanks.

Football International: Slovakia 1-0 Romania, Stadion Pasienky, Bratislava

Pacific Campaign: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons began.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Major night-time British air raid, 220+ aircraft attack on Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Pathfinder force was used again. Poor results observed

Football International: Uruguay 1-1 Argentina, Estadio Centenario, Montevideo

A round-up of Jews began in Nazi-occupied France.

The British government lifted the ban on the communist newspaper The Daily Worker.

Eastern Front: German forces capture Prokhladny, pushing closer to the oil prize of Grozny.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Major night-time British air raid, 280+ aircraft attack on Kassel, Germany. Pathfinder force used. Target illuminated causing widespread damage

Allied Bomber Offensive: Major night-time British air raid, 160+ aircraft attack on Nuremberg, Germany. Pathfinder force lead attack. Mixed results were observed. Second night-time British air raid, 110+ aircraft attack on Saarbrucken, Germany. Pathfinder force not used. Poor results observed

North African Campaign: The Battle of Alam el Halfa began south of El Alamein.