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October 24, 1943: Beheading of Leonard George Siffleet. Soldatensender Calais, also known as "Soldiers' Radio Calais", went on the air at 5:57 pm. Operating on the same frequency as Radio Deutschland, Germany's national radio station, Radio Calais would begin transmission whenever Radio Deutschland was off the air during bombing raids. [78]
The second Schweinfurt raid, [9] also called Black Thursday, was a World War II air battle that took place on 14 October 1943, over Nazi Germany between forces of the United States 8th Air Force and German Luftwaffe fighter arm (Jagdwaffe).
The bombing of Hamburg during 1943. 18 January – World War II: Soviet officials announce they have broken the Wehrmacht's siege of Leningrad. 18 January – The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins. 27 January – World War II: 64 bombers mount the first all American air raid against Germany (Wilhelmshaven is the target).
1: German 1st Panzer Division withdraws from the Terek River area in southern Russia to prevent encirclement. [1]2: Americans and Australians recapture Buna, New Guinea. [1]5: Eighteen countries issue a declaration in London stating their determination to "combat and defeat the plundering by the enemy Powers of the territories which have been overrun or brought under enemy control" and to take ...
10 October: As a result of the June "surrender/escape" of a 100 BG B-17, out of the 13 B-17s of 100 BG attacking a railyard in Münster, only the B-17F of Robert Rosenthal survives to return safely to RAF Thorpe Abbotts in England. 14 October: The Second Raid on Schweinfurt (Black Thursday) resulted in 122 damaged bombers and 650 MIA/KIA.
The Kassel World War II bombings were a set of Allied strategic bombing attacks which took place from February 1942 to March 1945. In a single deadliest raid on 22–23 October 1943, 150,000 inhabitants were bombed-out, [citation needed] at least 6,000 people died, [citation needed] the vast majority of the city center was destroyed, and the fire of the most severe air raid burned for seven days.
The Battle of the Dnieper was a military campaign that took place in 1943 on the Eastern Front of World War II.Being one of the largest operations of the war, it involved almost four million troops at one point and stretched over a 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) front.
Existing from January to October 1943, the bridgehead formed after the Germans were pushed out of the Caucasus. The heavily fortified position was intended as a staging area for the Wehrmacht which was to be used to renew attacks towards the oil wells of the Caucasus. Axis positions in the bridgehead were repeatedly subjected to large Soviet ...