| |
| 1943 |
January
2nd - 3rd |
 |
The
Nazis retreated from the Caucasus. The Japanese lost Buna. |
|
| January
14th |
|
The
Casablanca conference began. |
|
| January
23rd |
|
The
British 8th Army entered Tripoli. |
|
| February
2nd |
|
The
Nazis surrendered at Stalingrad, Soviet Union. |
|
| February
8th |
|
Wingate's
Chindits made first expedition into Burma. Russians recaptured
Kursk. |
|
| February
14th |
|
Rommel
attacked at Faid. Chindits cross Chindwin. The Russians took
Rostov. |
|
| March
6th |
|
The
British 8th Army took on Rommel at Medenine. 43 Allied merchant
ships were lost to the U-boats in March. |
|
| April
18th |
|
Admiral
Yamamoto was shot down and killed by the USAF. |
|
| April
19th |
|
The
Jewish uprising in the Warsaw ghetto, Poland, ignited. |
|
| April
21st |
|
The
British 8th Army attacked the Enfidaville Line. |
|
| May
7th |
|
Tunis
and Bizerta fell to the Allies. |
|
| May
11th |
|
The
United States started the liberation of the Aleutian Islands. |
|
| May
13th |
|
The
Nazis and Italians surrendered in Tunisia. |
|
| May
16th |
|
Warsaw
uprising was crushed by the Nazis. Resistance is ended when
SS troops entered the ghetto and cleaned up the last of the
Jewish resistance. |
|
| May
17th |
|
The
Royal Air Force attacked the Ruhr dams, using Barnes Wallis'
'Bouncing Bombs'. |
|
| June
29th |
|
United
States landed in New Guinea. |
|
| July
4th |
|
The
Battle of Kursk. The largest tank battle ever fought. |
|
July
9th - 10th |
|
The
Allied invasion of Sicily. |
|
| July
22nd |
|
United
States take Palermo. |
|
| July
25th |
|
Italian
leader Mussolini was imprisoned, and Badoglio became the new
Italian Prime Minister. |
|
| August
17th |
|
The
Allied armies reached Messina. The United States Air Force carry
out daylight raids on Regensburg and Schweinfurt. |
|
August
17th - 18th |
|
The
RAF launched 'Operation Hydra', a massive bombing raid to destroy
the Nazi secret weapons research facility at Peenemünde,
on the Baltic coast. |
|
| August
23rd |
|
The
Russians retook Kharkov. |
|
| August 28th |
|
After
the RAF raid on Peenemünde, plans to move the work underground
were implemented. Dora was created as a sub-camp of the Concentration
Camp Buchenwald. |
|
| September
3rd |
|
The
Allies landed in Calbria. The Armistice signed but not announced. |
|
| September
8th |
|
The
Italians announced their surrender. The Nazis moved to occupy
the Italian capital Rome. |
|
| September
9th |
|
The
Allies landed at Salerno. |
|
| September
12th |
|
Imprisoned
deposed Italian leader Mussolini was rescued by Nazi commandos
in a daring and well executed mission. |
|
| September
25th |
|
The
Russians retook Smolensk. |
|
| September. |
|
Prisoner
transports brought workers to excavate the underground facilities
built under the Kohnstein Mountain. This facility built the
V2 rockets designed by Dr.
Wernher von Braun. |
|
| October
13th |
|
The
Italians declared war on Germany. |
|
| October
25th |
|
The
Russians retook Dnepropetrovsk. |
|
| November
1st |
|
United
States marines landed on Bougainville. |
|
| November
6th |
|
The
Russians retook Kiev. |
|
| November
18th |
|
The
Allied
air offensive. The Royal Air Force made its heaviest
raid yet on the German capital Berlin. |
|
| November
20th |
|
The
British 8th Army crossed Sangro. |
|
| November
22nd |
|
The
Cairo Conference. The Allies met with the leader of the Chinese
Nationalists, Chiang Kai-shek in Cario in Egypt. |
|
| November
28th |
|
The
Teheran Conference in Iran. The Allied leaders met with Churchill,
Roosevelt and Stalin in attendance. |
|
| November. |
|
The
"Mittelwerk" Company was founded and ordered for the
assembly-line production of V2 rockets to commence. |
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