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: United States' VI Corps arrives in North Africa. 9: Guadalcanal is finally secured; it is the first major achievement of the American offensive in the Pacific war.: Munich and Vienna are heavily bombed, along with Berlin. 11: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower is selected to command the Allied armies in Europe.
1943 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1943rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 943rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 43rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1940s decade.
The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place from 3 September 1943, during the Italian campaign of World War II.The operation was undertaken by General Sir Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group (comprising General Mark W. Clark's American Fifth Army and General Bernard Montgomery's British Eighth Army) and followed the successful Allied invasion ...
A census taken at the end of 1945, after World War II ended, counted only 299 remaining Jews out of a population of 79,000. [ 45 ] The German submarine U-224 was depth charged, rammed and sunk west of Algiers by the Canadian corvette Ville de Quebec , and the U-507 was sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by an American PBY Catalina.
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Pages in category "1943 in Europe" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. ... Bombing of Podgorica in World War II; E. 1943 in Estonia; F. 1943 ...
The following events occurred in March 1943: . March 13, 1943: Liquidation completed of 10,000 Jews from Krakow Ghetto March 1, 1943: First war ration point tokens issued by U.S. government [1] March 2–4, 1943: U.S. and Australian forces sink 12 Japanese Navy ships in battle at Bismarck Sea March 27, 1943: U.S. War Department announces the existence of the first rocket-launcher weapon, the ...
12 September – World War II: German paratroopers rescue Benito Mussolini from imprisonment, in Operation Eiche. 13 October – World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany. 17 October – World War II: The last commerce raider, auxiliary cruiser Michel, was sunk off Japan by United States ...