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September 21, 1942

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VOLGA CITY HOLDING; Red Army Also Reports Success in 2 Sectors of the Caucasus UPPER DON BATTLE FIERCE 3,000 of Foe Die in Voronezh Area -- Gains at Stalingrad Claimed by Germans

By the Associated Press

USSR claims gains in Stalingrad, Mozdok area and southeast of Novorossiisk; fighting rages in Voronezh area; USSR marine landings northwest of Murmansk reptd; Gers reptd sending reinforcements and shock troops to Stalingrad; USSR warships sink destroyer, Black Sea; Ger rept on battles

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Notable Births

Sam McDowell

1942Sam McDowell, American baseball player[†]

Samuel Edward Thomas McDowell is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a starting pitcher from 1961 to 1975, most notably for the Cleveland Indians. A six-time All-Star, McDowell led the American League in strikeouts five times. Tall and powerful, his left-handed fastball was delivered with an unusually calm pitching motion which led to his memorable nickname, "Sudden Sam".

Notable Deaths

1942John Symes, English cricketer (born 1879)[†]

John Symes was a member of the gold medal–winning Great Britain Olympic cricket team at the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris, France.

Historical Events

The Holocaust in Ukraine

1942The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaitsi to Bełżec extermination camp.[†]

The Holocaust saw the systematic mass murder of Jews in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine, the General Government, the Crimean General Government and some areas which were located to the east of Reichskommissariat Ukraine, in the Transnistria Governorate and Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and the Hertsa region and Carpathian Ruthenia during World War II. The listed areas are currently parts of Ukraine.

Dunaivtsi

1942The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.[†]

Dunaivtsi is a city in Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine. It is located on the river Ternavka, 22 km away from the railway station Dunaivtsi and 68 km from the Khmelnytskyi. Reinforcement plant, repair and engineering works and butter-processing plant are located in the city. The city also houses a control center of the State Space Agency of Ukraine. Dunaivtsi hosts the administration of Dunaivtsi urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Current population is 15,078 (2024).

The Holocaust in Poland

1942The Holocaust in Poland: At the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently move from Konstantynów to Biała Podlaska.[†]

The Holocaust saw the ghettoization, robbery, deportation and mass murder of Jews, alongside other groups under similar racial pretexts in occupied Poland by the Nazi Germany. Over three million Polish Jews were murdered, primarily at the Chełmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka and Auschwitz extermination camps, who made up half of the Jewish Holocaust victims.

Boeing B-29 Superfortress

1942The Boeing B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.[†]

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is a retired American four-engined propeller-driven heavy bomber, designed by Boeing and flown primarily by the United States during World War II and the Korean War. Named in allusion to its predecessor, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, the Superfortress was designed for high-altitude strategic bombing, but also excelled in low-altitude night incendiary bombing, and in dropping naval mines to blockade Japan. Silverplate B-29s dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only aircraft ever to drop nuclear weapons in combat.