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August 1–2 – Harlem riot of 1943, a race riot. August 3 – WWII: John F. Kennedy's patrol torpedo boat PT-109 is rammed by a destroyer. August 5 – WWII: John F. Kennedy and crew are found by Solomon Islanders coastwatchers Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana with their dugout canoe.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
June 28, 1943: Germany successfully tests the new V-2 ballistic missile June 8, 1943: Explosion of ammunition on Japanese battleship Mutsu kills 1,121 crew June 2, 1943: Removal of Polish Jews from the Lwow Ghetto is completed
The following events occurred in January 1943: ... listeners unaware that anything untoward had happened." [75] British Commandos carried out Operation Cartoon, ...
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 ...
1 January Total ban on civilians travelling to the Isle of Wight (continues until 25 August 1944).; Utility furniture first becomes available. [1]14 January – to counter a "serious increase" in U-boat operations the Royal Air Force switches its bombing campaign from industrial targets to U-boat bases in France attacking Lorient and Cherbourg-Octeville.