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href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bismarck_Sea" title="Battle of the Bismarck Sea">Battle of the Bismarck Sea</a>, graves of U.S. Marines killed in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tarawa" title="Battle of Tarawa">Battle of Tarawa</a>, burning Allied ships after the <a href="/wiki/Air_raid_on_Bari" title="Air raid on Bari">air raid on Bari</a> in Italy, Jews of the <a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto" title="Warsaw Ghetto">Warsaw Ghetto</a> </figcaption></figure> <p>This is a <b>timeline of events that occurred during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> in 1943</b>. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1119456059">.mw-parser-output .tocnumber{display:none}.mw-parser-output #toc ul,.mw-parser-output .toc ul{line-height:1.5em;list-style:none;margin:.3em 0 0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist #toc ul ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist .toc ul ul{margin:0}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1097603156">.mw-parser-output .horizontal-toc-align-right{float:right}.mw-parser-output .horizontal-toc-align-left{float:left}.mw-parser-output .horizontal-toc-align-center{clear:none}.mw-parser-output .horizontal-toc-align-center .toc{margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}.mw-parser-output .horizontal-toc-clear-right{clear:right}.mw-parser-output .horizontal-toc-clear-left{clear:left}.mw-parser-output .horizontal-toc-clear-both{clear:both}.mw-parser-output .horizontal-toc-clear-none{clear:none}</style><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist horizontal-toc"><meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="January">January</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1943)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: January"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd>1: <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">German</a> <a href="/wiki/1st_Panzer_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="1st Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)">1st Panzer Division</a> withdraws from the <a href="/wiki/Terek_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Terek River">Terek River</a> area in southern Russia to prevent encirclement.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>2: Americans and Australians recapture <a href="/wiki/Buna,_Papua_New_Guinea" title="Buna, Papua New Guinea">Buna</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Guinea" title="New Guinea">New Guinea</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>5: Eighteen countries issue a declaration in London stating their determination to "combat and defeat the <a href="/wiki/Nazi_plunder" title="Nazi plunder">plundering by the enemy Powers</a> of the territories which have been overrun or brought under enemy control" and to take measures to restore property after the war.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>7: Japanese land more troops at <a href="/wiki/Lae" title="Lae">Lae</a>, New Guinea.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>9: <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> Western Task Force redesignated <a href="/wiki/I_Armored_Corps_(United_States)" title="I Armored Corps (United States)">I Armored Corps</a>.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>10: Soviet troops launch <a href="/wiki/Operation_Koltso" title="Operation Koltso">an all-out offensive attack on</a> <a href="/wiki/Volgograd" title="Volgograd">Stalingrad</a>; they also renew attacks in the north (<a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">Leningrad</a>) and in the <a href="/wiki/Caucasus" title="Caucasus">Caucasus</a>.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>14: The <a href="/wiki/Casablanca_Conference" title="Casablanca Conference">Casablanca Conference</a> of Allied leaders begins. <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> and <a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> discuss the eventual invasion of mainland Europe, the impending invasion of Sicily and Italy, and the wisdom of the principle of "unconditional surrender".</dd></dl> <dl><dd>15: The <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> start an offensive aimed at taking far-off <a href="/wiki/Tripoli,_Libya" title="Tripoli, Libya">Tripoli, Libya</a>.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>16: <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> declares war on the Axis powers.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />: The <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> begins a two-night bombing of <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a>.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>18: The <a href="/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jews</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto" title="Warsaw Ghetto">Warsaw Ghetto</a> rise up for the first time, starting the <a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising" title="Warsaw Ghetto Uprising">Warsaw Ghetto Uprising</a>.<br />: Besieged defenders of Leningrad link up with relieving forces.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>19: General <a href="/wiki/Georgy_Zhukov" title="Georgy Zhukov">Georgy Zhukov</a> is promoted to Marshal as the Stalingrad struggle grinds to a close.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>20: <a href="/wiki/USS_Silversides_(SS-236)" title="USS Silversides (SS-236)">USS <i>Silversides</i></a> attacks a Japanese convoy 286 miles from <a href="/wiki/Chuuk_Lagoon" title="Chuuk Lagoon">Truk</a>, Caroline Islands en route to the Solomon Islands, sinking transport Meiu Maru and damaging Surabaya Maru.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>21: Last airfield at Stalingrad is taken by Red Army forces, ensuring that the <a href="/wiki/Luftwaffe" title="Luftwaffe">Luftwaffe</a> will be unable to supply German troops any further; Hitler demands that <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Paulus" title="Friedrich Paulus">Friedrich Paulus</a> continue fighting and promotes Paulus to Field Marshal in order to bolster morale.<br />: Red Army armies have more victories in the Caucasus.</dd></dl> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Paulus_POW2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Paulus_POW2.jpg/220px-Paulus_POW2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Paulus_POW2.jpg/330px-Paulus_POW2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Paulus_POW2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="350" data-file-height="242" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Paulus" title="Friedrich Paulus">Field Marshal Paulus</a> and his staff surrender in Stalingrad</figcaption></figure> <dl><dd>22: Allies liberate <a href="/wiki/Sanananda" title="Sanananda">Sanananda</a>, New Guinea.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>23: British capture Tripoli, Libya.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />: Japanese continue their fight in western <a href="/wiki/Guadalcanal" title="Guadalcanal">Guadalcanal</a>; they now seem to have given up completely on the <a href="/wiki/New_Guinea_campaign" title="New Guinea campaign">New Guinea campaign</a>.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>24: The Casablanca Conference ends; Allies insist on unconditional surrender from Germany.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />: German forces in Stalingrad are in the last phases of collapse.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>25: <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> <a href="/wiki/XIV_Corps_(United_States)" title="XIV Corps (United States)">XIV Corps</a> arrives in Pacific Theater.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>26: Soviet troops retake <a href="/wiki/Voronezh" title="Voronezh">Voronezh</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>27: 50 bombers mount the first all American <a href="/wiki/Airstrike" title="Airstrike">air raid</a> against <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>. <a href="/wiki/Wilhelmshaven" title="Wilhelmshaven">Wilhelmshaven</a>, the large naval base, is the primary target.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>28: A new conscription law in Germany: men between 16 and 65 and women between 17 and 50 are open to mobilization.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />: Georgy Zhukov awarded the first <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Suvorov" title="Order of Suvorov">Order of Suvorov</a> 1st Class.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>29: The naval <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Rennell_Island" title="Battle of Rennell Island">battle of Rennell Island</a>, near Guadalcanal, begins. The Japanese beat the Americans and the <a href="/wiki/USS_Chicago_(CA-29)" title="USS Chicago (CA-29)">USS <i>Chicago</i></a> is lost.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>30: The last Japanese have cleared out of Guadalcanal undetected by U.S. forces.<br />: On the tenth anniversary of his rise to power, Hitler makes a speech in which he promotes General Paulus to Field Marshal. This includes a reminder that no German field marshal has ever surrendered or been captured.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>31: Friedrich Paulus (<a href="/wiki/Field_Marshal_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="Field Marshal (Germany)"><i>Generalfeldmarschall</i></a> in command of the German <a href="/wiki/6th_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="6th Army (Wehrmacht)">6th Army</a>) and his staff surrender to Soviet troops in Stalingrad, the first time a German Field Marshal is lost to surrender and thus captured by the enemy.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="February">February</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1943)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: February"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dwight_D._Eisenhower_as_General_of_the_Army_crop.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Dwight_D._Eisenhower_as_General_of_the_Army_crop.jpg/220px-Dwight_D._Eisenhower_as_General_of_the_Army_crop.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="296" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Dwight_D._Eisenhower_as_General_of_the_Army_crop.jpg/330px-Dwight_D._Eisenhower_as_General_of_the_Army_crop.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Dwight_D._Eisenhower_as_General_of_the_Army_crop.jpg/440px-Dwight_D._Eisenhower_as_General_of_the_Army_crop.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1379" /></a><figcaption>General <a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a></figcaption></figure> <dl><dd>2: In the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad" title="Battle of Stalingrad">Battle of Stalingrad</a> comes to an end with the official surrender of the German 6th Army. The German public is informed of this disaster, marking the first time the Nazi government has acknowledged a failure in the war effort.<br />: <a href="/wiki/Erwin_Rommel" title="Erwin Rommel">Rommel</a> retreats farther into <a href="/wiki/Tunisia" title="Tunisia">Tunisia</a>, establishing his troops at the <a href="/wiki/Mareth_Line" title="Mareth Line">Mareth Line</a>. Within two days, Allied troops move into Tunisia for the first time from the South.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>5: The Allies now have all of Libya under their control.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>7: In the United States, it is announced that shoe rationing will go into effect in two days.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>8: The <a href="/wiki/Chindits" title="Chindits">Chindits</a> (a "long range penetration group") under British General <a href="/wiki/Orde_Wingate" title="Orde Wingate">Orde Wingate</a> begin an incursion into Burma.<br />: United States' <a href="/wiki/VI_Corps_(United_States)" title="VI Corps (United States)">VI Corps</a> arrives in North Africa.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>9: <a href="/wiki/Guadalcanal_campaign" title="Guadalcanal campaign">Guadalcanal</a> is finally secured; it is the first major achievement of the American offensive in the Pacific war.<br />: Munich and Vienna are heavily bombed, along with Berlin.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>11: U.S. General <a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a> is selected to command the Allied armies in Europe.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>13: Rommel launches a counter-attack against the Americans in western Tunisia; he takes <a href="/wiki/Sidi_Bouzid" title="Sidi Bouzid">Sidi Bouzid</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gafsa" title="Gafsa">Gafsa</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Kasserine_Pass" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of the Kasserine Pass">Battle of the Kasserine Pass</a> begins: inexperienced American troops are soon forced to retreat.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>14: <a href="/wiki/Rostov-on-Don" title="Rostov-on-Don">Rostov-on-Don</a> is liberated by the Red Army.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>16: <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> reconquers <a href="/wiki/Kharkov" class="mw-redirect" title="Kharkov">Kharkov</a>, but is later driven out in the <a href="/wiki/Third_Battle_of_Kharkov" title="Third Battle of Kharkov">Third Battle of Kharkov</a>.<br />: <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_France" title="Prime Minister of France">Prime Minister</a> of <a href="/wiki/Vichy_France" title="Vichy France">Vichy France</a> <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Laval" title="Pierre Laval">Pierre Laval</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Justice_(France)" title="Ministry of Justice (France)">Minister of Justice</a> <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Barth%C3%A9lemy" title="Joseph Barthélemy">Joseph Barthélemy</a> formally create the <a href="/wiki/Service_du_travail_obligatoire" title="Service du travail obligatoire">Service du travail obligatoire</a> (STO)</dd></dl> <dl><dd>18: In a <a href="/wiki/Sportpalast_speech" title="Sportpalast speech">speech at the Berlin Sportpalast</a> German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels declares a "<a href="/wiki/Total_war" title="Total war">Total War</a>" against the Allies; the Nazis arrest the members of the <a href="/wiki/White_Rose" title="White Rose">White Rose</a> movement, an anti-Nazi youth group.<br />: Chindits under Wingate cut the railway line between <a href="/wiki/Mandalay" title="Mandalay">Mandalay</a> and <a href="/wiki/Myitkyina" title="Myitkyina">Myitkyina</a>.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>21: Americans take the Russell Islands, part of the Solomons chain.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>22: <a href="/wiki/Hans_Scholl" title="Hans Scholl">Hans</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sophie_Scholl" title="Sophie Scholl">Sophie Scholl</a> of the White Rose movement are executed.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>22: Japanese POWs refuse to work at <a href="/wiki/Featherston_prisoner_of_war_camp" title="Featherston prisoner of war camp">Featherston prisoner of war camp</a>; this escalates into a deadly clash between the inmates and the guards.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>28: <a href="/wiki/Operation_Gunnerside" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Gunnerside">Operation Gunnerside</a>: six Norwegians led by <a href="/wiki/Joachim_R%C3%B8nneberg" title="Joachim Rønneberg">Joachim Rønneberg</a> successfully attack the heavy water plant <a href="/wiki/Vemork" title="Vemork">Vemork</a>.</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="March">March</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1943)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: March"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Battle_of_the_Bismark_Sea.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Battle_of_the_Bismark_Sea.jpg/220px-Battle_of_the_Bismark_Sea.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Battle_of_the_Bismark_Sea.jpg/330px-Battle_of_the_Bismark_Sea.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Battle_of_the_Bismark_Sea.jpg/440px-Battle_of_the_Bismark_Sea.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="693" /></a><figcaption>Battle of Bismarck Sea</figcaption></figure> <dl><dd>1: <a href="/wiki/Heinz_Guderian" title="Heinz Guderian">Heinz Guderian</a> becomes the Inspector-General of the Armoured Troops for the German Army.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>2: <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bismarck_Sea" title="Battle of the Bismarck Sea">Battle of the Bismarck Sea</a>. U.S. and Australian naval forces, over the course of three days, sink eight Japanese troop transports near New Guinea.<br />: Wingate's Chindits continue their localised strikes in Burma.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>5: German advances around Kharkov threaten earlier Red Army gains.<br />: Essen is bombed, marking the beginning of a four-month attack on the Ruhr industrial area, the Battle of the Ruhr.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>6: <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Medenine" title="Battle of Medenine">Battle of Medenine</a>, Tunisia. It is Rommel's last battle in Africa as he is forced to retreat.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>8: Continuing German counter-attacks around Kharkov.<br />: Nuremberg is heavily bombed.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>9: Members of the <a href="/wiki/Calcutta_Light_Horse" title="Calcutta Light Horse">Calcutta Light Horse</a> carry out a covert attack against a German merchantship, which had been transmitting Allied positions to <a href="/wiki/U-boat" title="U-boat">U-boats</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Mormugao" title="Mormugao">Mormugao</a> Harbour in neutral Portugal's protectorate, the Indian territory of <a href="/wiki/Goa" title="Goa">Goa</a>.<br />: Munich is heavily bombed.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>10: The USAAF <a href="/wiki/Fourteenth_Air_Force" title="Fourteenth Air Force">14th Air Force</a> is formed in China, under General <a href="/wiki/Claire_Lee_Chennault" title="Claire Lee Chennault">Claire Lee Chennault</a>, former head of the "<a href="/wiki/Flying_Tigers" title="Flying Tigers">Flying Tigers</a>".<br />: The US House of Representatives votes to extend the <a href="/wiki/Lend-Lease" title="Lend-Lease">Lend-Lease</a> plan.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>11: The Germans enter Kharkov and the fierce struggle with the Red Army continues.</dd></dl> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%CE%91%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%AC%CF%81%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%82_%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%95%CE%91%CE%9C-%CE%95%CE%9B%CE%91%CE%A3.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/%CE%91%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%AC%CF%81%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%82_%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%95%CE%91%CE%9C-%CE%95%CE%9B%CE%91%CE%A3.jpg/220px-%CE%91%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%AC%CF%81%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%82_%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%95%CE%91%CE%9C-%CE%95%CE%9B%CE%91%CE%A3.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="168" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/%CE%91%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%AC%CF%81%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%82_%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%95%CE%91%CE%9C-%CE%95%CE%9B%CE%91%CE%A3.jpg/330px-%CE%91%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%AC%CF%81%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%82_%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%95%CE%91%CE%9C-%CE%95%CE%9B%CE%91%CE%A3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/%CE%91%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%AC%CF%81%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%82_%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%95%CE%91%CE%9C-%CE%95%CE%9B%CE%91%CE%A3.jpg/440px-%CE%91%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%AC%CF%81%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%82_%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%95%CE%91%CE%9C-%CE%95%CE%9B%CE%91%CE%A3.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4640" data-file-height="3552" /></a><figcaption>Greek People's Liberation Army or ELAS</figcaption></figure> <dl><dd>12 <a href="/wiki/Karditsa" title="Karditsa">Karditsa</a> in Greece becomes the first city in Europe to be liberated from <a href="/wiki/Nazi" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi">Nazi</a> occupation, after a campaign fought by <a href="/wiki/Greek_People%27s_Liberation_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek People's Liberation Army">ELAS</a>, the Greek People's Liberation Army.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>13: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in <a href="/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w" title="Kraków">Kraków</a>.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>14: Germans recapture Kharkov.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>16: The first reports of the <a href="/wiki/Katyn_massacre" title="Katyn massacre">Katyn massacre</a> in Poland seep to the West; reports say that more than 22,000 prisoners of war were killed by the <a href="/wiki/NKVD" title="NKVD">NKVD</a>, who eventually blame the massacre on the Germans.<br />: Stalin for the ninth time demands a "Second Front," accusing his allies of treachery.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>17: Devastating convoy losses in the Atlantic due to increased U-boat activity; the middle of the Atlantic is apparently not sufficiently covered by planes or ships.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>18: General <a href="/wiki/George_S._Patton" title="George S. Patton">George S. Patton</a> leads his tanks of <a href="/wiki/II_Corps_(United_States)" title="II Corps (United States)">II Corps</a> into <a href="/wiki/Gafsa" title="Gafsa">Gafsa</a>, Tunisia.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>20: <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Montgomery,_1st_Viscount_Montgomery_of_Alamein" class="mw-redirect" title="Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein">Montgomery</a>'s forces begin a breakthrough in Tunisia, striking at the Mareth line.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>23: American tanks defeat the Germans at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_El_Guettar" title="Battle of El Guettar">Battle of El Guettar</a> in Tunisia.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>26: The British break through the Mareth line in southern Tunisia, threatening the whole German army. The Germans move north.<br />: <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Komandorski_Islands" title="Battle of the Komandorski Islands">Battle of the Komandorski Islands</a>. In the <a href="/wiki/Aleutian_Islands" title="Aleutian Islands">Aleutian Islands</a> <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a> forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at <a href="/wiki/Kiska" title="Kiska">Kiska</a>. Poor leadership on both sides leads to a stalemate of sorts, and the Japanese withdraw without achieving their goal.</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="April">April</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1943)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: April"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd>1: Allies continue to squeeze the Germans into the corner of Tunisia.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>3: Racial tensions between American Marines and New Zealand troops of <a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_people" title="Māori people">Māori</a> origin result in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Manners_Street" title="Battle of Manners Street">Battle of Manners Street</a>, a small-scale riot in which there were no deaths.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>4: The only large-scale escape of Allied prisoners-of-war from the Japanese in the Pacific takes place when ten American POWs and two Filipino convicts break out of the <a href="/wiki/Davao_Penal_Colony" class="mw-redirect" title="Davao Penal Colony">Davao Penal Colony</a> on the island of <a href="/wiki/Mindanao" title="Mindanao">Mindanao</a> in the southern Philippines. The escaped POWs were the first to break the news of the infamous <a href="/wiki/Bataan_Death_March" title="Bataan Death March">Bataan Death March</a> and other atrocities committed by the Japanese to the world.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>7: Hitler and Mussolini come together at <a href="/wiki/Salzburg" title="Salzburg">Salzburg</a>, mostly for the purpose of propping up Mussolini's fading morale.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />: Allied forces–the Americans from the West, the British from the East–link up near Gafsa in Tunisia.<br />: <a href="/wiki/Bolivia" title="Bolivia">Bolivia</a> declares war on Germany, Japan, and Italy.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>10: The British 8th Army enters <a href="/wiki/Sfax" title="Sfax">Sfax</a>, Tunisia.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>13: Radio Berlin announces the discovery by <a href="/wiki/Wehrmacht" title="Wehrmacht">Wehrmacht</a> of mass graves of Poles purportedly killed by Soviets in the <a href="/wiki/Katyn_massacre" title="Katyn massacre">Katyn massacre</a>.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>15: <a href="/wiki/Finland" title="Finland">Finland</a> officially rejects Soviet terms for peace.<sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />: Heavy RAF raid on Stuttgart.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>18: Admiral <a href="/wiki/Isoroku_Yamamoto" title="Isoroku Yamamoto">Isoroku Yamamoto</a>, chief architect of Japanese naval strategy, is killed when his plane is shot down by American <a href="/wiki/Lockheed_P-38_Lightning" title="Lockheed P-38 Lightning">P38's</a> over Bougainville. He was on an inspection tour.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />: The <a href="/wiki/Operation_Flax" title="Operation Flax">"Palm Sunday massacre"</a>: large numbers of German troop-transport aircraft are shot down before reaching Tunisia, where they were to pick up the isolated German troops.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>19-30: The <a href="/wiki/Bermuda_Conference" title="Bermuda Conference">Bermuda Conference</a> takes place in <a href="/wiki/Hamilton,_Bermuda" title="Hamilton, Bermuda">Hamilton, Bermuda</a>. U.K. and U.S. leaders discuss the plight of the European Jews.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>19: The <a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_uprising" class="mw-redirect" title="Warsaw Ghetto uprising">Warsaw Ghetto uprising</a>: On the Eve of Passover, Jews resist German attempts to deport the Jewish community.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>19: In occupied <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a>, partisans attack <a href="/wiki/Twentieth_convoy" class="mw-redirect" title="Twentieth convoy">a railway convoy</a> transporting Belgian Jews to Auschwitz. It is the largest attack on a <a href="/wiki/Holocaust_train" class="mw-redirect" title="Holocaust train">Holocaust train</a> of the war and 236 Jews escape.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>26: The British finally take "Longstop Hill" in Tunisia, a key position on the breakout road to Tunis.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>28: Allies attempt to close the mid-Atlantic gap in the war against the U-boats with long-range bombers.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>30: <a href="/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat" title="Operation Mincemeat">Operation Mincemeat</a>: Lt. Jewell's crew release a body bearing false documents near the Spanish coast. Later, the body washes up on the Spanish coast and is discovered by a local fisherman. They will go on to mislead the Germans about the site and timing of the Allied invasion of Sicily.</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="May">May</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1943)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: May"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/A_Jewish_boy_surrenders_in_Warsaw" title="A Jewish boy surrenders in Warsaw"><img resource="/wiki/File:Stroop_Report_-_Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising_BW.jpg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Stroop_Report_-_Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising_BW.jpg/220px-Stroop_Report_-_Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising_BW.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Stroop_Report_-_Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising_BW.jpg/330px-Stroop_Report_-_Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising_BW.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Stroop_Report_-_Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising_BW.jpg/440px-Stroop_Report_-_Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising_BW.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2766" data-file-height="1964" /></a><figcaption>Women and children forced out of a bunker by armed SS men during the suppression of the <a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_uprising" class="mw-redirect" title="Warsaw Ghetto uprising">Warsaw Ghetto uprising</a> </figcaption></figure> <dl><dd>1: Allies close in on the cornered Germans in the Tunis area.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>2: Japanese aircraft again bomb <a href="/wiki/Darwin,_Northern_Territory" title="Darwin, Northern Territory">Darwin</a>, Australia.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>7: <a href="/wiki/Tunis" title="Tunis">Tunis</a> captured by British First Army. Meanwhile, the Americans take Bizerte.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>9: The Japanese begin a three-day massacre of civilians; about 30,000 Chinese are killed in the <a href="/wiki/Changjiao_massacre" title="Changjiao massacre">Changjiao massacre</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>11: American and Canadian troops <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Aleutian_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of the Aleutian Islands">invade Attu Island</a> in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>12: The <a href="/wiki/Washington_Conference_(1943)" title="Washington Conference (1943)">Trident Conference</a> begins in <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a> with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill taking part. The discussions are mostly on future strategy.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>13: Remaining German <a href="/wiki/Afrika_Korps" title="Afrika Korps">Afrika Korps</a> and Italian troops in <a href="/wiki/North_Africa" title="North Africa">North Africa</a> surrender to <a href="/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" title="Allies of World War II">Allied</a> forces. The Allies take over 250,000 prisoners.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>15: The French form a "Resistance Movement".</dd></dl> <dl><dd>16: The <a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising" title="Warsaw Ghetto Uprising">Warsaw Ghetto Uprising</a> ends. The ghetto has been destroyed, with about 14,000 Jews killed and about another 40,000 sent to the <a href="/wiki/Death_camps" class="mw-redirect" title="Death camps">death camps</a> at <a href="/wiki/Majdanek" class="mw-redirect" title="Majdanek">Majdanek</a> and <a href="/wiki/Treblinka" class="mw-redirect" title="Treblinka">Treblinka</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />: The <a href="/wiki/Operation_Chastise" title="Operation Chastise">Dambuster Raids</a> are carried out by RAF 617 Squadron on three German dams, the Möhne, Eder and Sorpe. The Ruhr war industries lose electrical power.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>17: The Germans launch their <a href="/wiki/Case_Black" title="Case Black">fifth</a> major offensive against <a href="/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito" title="Josip Broz Tito">Tito</a>'s partisans in <a href="/wiki/Yugoslavia" title="Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>19: Winston Churchill <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill%27s_address_to_Congress_(1943)" title="Winston Churchill's address to Congress (1943)">addresses a joint session</a> of the U.S. Congress. He praises the partnership of the two Allies.<sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>22: Allies bomb Sicily and Sardinia, both possible landing sites.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>24: Admiral <a href="/wiki/Karl_D%C3%B6nitz" title="Karl Dönitz">Karl Dönitz</a> orders the majority of U-boats to withdraw from the Atlantic because of heavy losses to new Allied <a href="/wiki/Anti-submarine_weapon#World_War_II" title="Anti-submarine weapon">anti-submarine tactics</a>. By the end of the month, 43 U-boats are lost, compared to 34 Allied ships sunk. This is referred to as "<a href="/wiki/Black_May_(1943)" title="Black May (1943)">Black May</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />: <a href="/wiki/Josef_Mengele" title="Josef Mengele">Josef Mengele</a> becomes Chief Medical Officer in <a href="/wiki/Auschwitz" class="mw-redirect" title="Auschwitz">Auschwitz</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>29: <a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_Wuppertal_in_World_War_II" title="Bombing of Wuppertal in World War II">RAF bombs Wuppertal</a>, causing heavy civilian losses.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>30: <a href="/wiki/Attu_Island" title="Attu Island">Attu Island</a> is again under American control as the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Attu" title="Battle of Attu">Battle of Attu</a> concludes.<sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>31: American <a href="/wiki/B-17_Flying_Fortress" class="mw-redirect" title="B-17 Flying Fortress">B-17</a>'s bomb Naples.</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="June">June</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1943)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: June"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd>4: General <a href="/wiki/Henri_Giraud" title="Henri Giraud">Henri Giraud</a> becomes Commander-in-Chief of the <a href="/wiki/Free_French" class="mw-redirect" title="Free French">Free French</a> forces.<sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>8: Japanese forces begin to evacuate Kiska Island in the Aleutians, their last foothold in the Western hemisphere. The event is almost to the year of their landing.<sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>11: British 1st Division takes the Italian island of <a href="/wiki/Pantelleria" title="Pantelleria">Pantelleria</a>, between Tunisia and Sicily, capturing 11,000 Italian troops.<sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>12: The Italian island of <a href="/wiki/Lampedusa" title="Lampedusa">Lampedusa</a>, between Tunisia and Sicily, surrenders to the Allies.<sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>13: Heavy US aircraft losses over <a href="/wiki/Kiel" title="Kiel">Kiel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>17: Allies bomb Sicily and the Italian mainland, as signs increase of a forthcoming invasion.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>21: <a href="/wiki/Operation_Cartwheel" title="Operation Cartwheel">Operation Cartwheel</a> opens with landings by the United States <a href="/wiki/Marine_Raiders" title="Marine Raiders">4th Marine Raider Battalion</a> at Segi Point on <a href="/wiki/New_Georgia" title="New Georgia">New Georgia</a> in the Solomon Islands, beginning the <a href="/wiki/New_Georgia_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="New Georgia Campaign">New Georgia Campaign</a>. It will not be secured until August.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>23: American troops land in the <a href="/wiki/Trobriand_Islands" title="Trobriand Islands">Trobriand Islands</a>, close to New Guinea. The American strategy of driving up the Southwest Pacific by "<a href="/wiki/Island_hopping" class="mw-redirect" title="Island hopping">Island Hopping</a>" continues.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>24: Continuing attacks against the Ruhr industrial valley. One result is the evacuation of large numbers of German civilians from the area.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>30: American troops land on <a href="/wiki/Rendova_Island" title="Rendova Island">Rendova Island</a>, New Georgia, another part of Operation Cartwheel.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="July">July</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1943)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: July"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table border="0" style="float:right;"> <tbody><tr> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><b>July 1943</b></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><div style="float: left; border:solid #3d4a67 1px; margin: 1px;"> <table cellspacing="0" style="width: 220px; background:#fffacd;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width: 80px; height: 45px; background:#fffacd;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1943-07-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/1943-07-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/80px-1943-07-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/1943-07-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/120px-1943-07-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/1943-07-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/160px-1943-07-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1207" data-file-height="1210" /></a></span> </td> <td style="width: 90px; height: 45px; background:#fffacd;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1943-07-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/1943-07-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/80px-1943-07-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="77" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/1943-07-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/120px-1943-07-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/1943-07-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/160px-1943-07-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1263" data-file-height="1208" /></a></span> </td> <td style="font-size:11pt; padding: 4pt; line-height: 1.25em; color:black;"><b>1st</b> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><div style="float: left; border:solid #3d4a67 1px; margin: 1px;"> <table cellspacing="0" style="width: 220px; background:#fffacd;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width: 80px; height: 45px; background:#fffacd;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1943-07-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/1943-07-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/80px-1943-07-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="77" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/1943-07-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/120px-1943-07-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/1943-07-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/160px-1943-07-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1252" data-file-height="1210" /></a></span> </td> <td style="width: 90px; height: 45px; background:#fffacd;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1943-07-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/1943-07-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/80px-1943-07-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="77" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/1943-07-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/120px-1943-07-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/1943-07-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/160px-1943-07-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1263" data-file-height="1215" /></a></span> </td> <td style="font-size:11pt; padding: 4pt; line-height: 1.25em; color:black;"><b>15th</b> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ww2_allied_axis_1943_jul.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Ww2_allied_axis_1943_jul.png/300px-Ww2_allied_axis_1943_jul.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="127" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Ww2_allied_axis_1943_jul.png/450px-Ww2_allied_axis_1943_jul.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Ww2_allied_axis_1943_jul.png/600px-Ww2_allied_axis_1943_jul.png 2x" data-file-width="1480" data-file-height="628" /></a><figcaption>The state of the Allies and Axis powers in July 1943</figcaption></figure> <dl><dd>4: <a href="/wiki/Polish_government-in-exile" title="Polish government-in-exile">Exiled Polish</a> leader <a href="/wiki/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Sikorski#Death" title="Władysław Sikorski">General Władysław Sikorski</a> dies in an air crash in Gibraltar.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>5: Operation Citadel (the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk" title="Battle of Kursk">Battle of Kursk</a>) begins.<sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />: Conclusion of the <a href="/wiki/National_Bands_Agreement" title="National Bands Agreement">National Bands Agreement</a> in <a href="/wiki/Axis_occupation_of_Greece" title="Axis occupation of Greece">occupied Greece</a>, which is to coordinate the actions of the Resistance movement in Greece.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>6: U.S. and Japanese ships fight the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kula_Gulf" title="Battle of Kula Gulf">Battle of Kula Gulf</a> in the Solomons.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>7: <a href="/wiki/Walter_Dornberger" title="Walter Dornberger">Walter Dornberger</a> briefs the <a href="/wiki/V-2_rocket" title="V-2 rocket">V-2 rocket</a> to Hitler, who approves the project for top priority.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>10: Operation Husky (the <a href="/wiki/Allied_invasion_of_Sicily" title="Allied invasion of Sicily">Allied invasion of Sicily</a>) begins.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>11: <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army" title="Ukrainian Insurgent Army">Ukrainian Insurgent Army</a> massacres Poles at <a href="/wiki/Dominopol" class="mw-redirect" title="Dominopol">Dominopol</a>.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>12:/:13: Off the Solomon Islands, the Japanese win a tactical victory at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kolombangara" title="Battle of Kolombangara">Battle of Kolombangara</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>12: The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Prokhorovka" title="Battle of Prokhorovka">Battle of Prokhorovka</a> begins;<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the largest tank battle in human history and part of the Battle of Kursk, it is the pivotal battle of Operation Citadel.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>13: Hitler calls off the Kursk offensive, but the Soviets continue the battle.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>19: The Allies <a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_Rome_in_World_War_II#Subsequent_raids" title="Bombing of Rome in World War II">bomb Rome</a> for the first time.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>21: The <a href="/wiki/Operation_Bellicose" title="Operation Bellicose">Operation Bellicose</a> targeting of Friedrichshafen <a href="/wiki/W%C3%BCrzburg_radar" title="Würzburg radar">Würzburg radars</a> is the first bombing of a <a href="/wiki/V-2_rocket" title="V-2 rocket">V-2 rocket</a> facility.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>22: U.S. forces under Patton capture <a href="/wiki/Palermo" title="Palermo">Palermo</a>, Sicily.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>23: The USAAF orders the first 100 examples of the planned <a href="/wiki/Convair_B-36" class="mw-redirect" title="Convair B-36">Convair B-36</a> six-engined intercontinental strategic bomber.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>24: Hamburg, Germany, is <a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_Hamburg_in_World_War_II" title="Bombing of Hamburg in World War II">heavily bombed</a> in Operation Gomorrah,<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which at the time is the heaviest assault in the <a href="/wiki/History_of_aviation" title="History of aviation">history of aviation</a>.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>25: Mussolini is arrested and relieved of his offices after a meeting with Italian King <a href="/wiki/Victor_Emmanuel_III_of_Italy" class="mw-redirect" title="Victor Emmanuel III of Italy">Victor Emmanuel III</a>, who chooses Marshal <a href="/wiki/Pietro_Badoglio" title="Pietro Badoglio">Pietro Badoglio</a> to form a new government.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="August">August</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1943)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: August"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table border="0" style="float:right;"> <tbody><tr> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><b>August 1943</b></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><div style="float: left; border:solid #3d4a67 1px; margin: 1px;"> <table cellspacing="0" style="width: 220px; background:#fffacd;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width: 80px; height: 45px; background:#fffacd;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1943-08-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/1943-08-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/80px-1943-08-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="77" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/1943-08-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/120px-1943-08-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/1943-08-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/160px-1943-08-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1252" data-file-height="1208" /></a></span> </td> <td style="width: 90px; height: 45px; background:#fffacd;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1943-08-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/1943-08-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/80px-1943-08-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="77" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/1943-08-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/120px-1943-08-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/1943-08-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/160px-1943-08-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1259" data-file-height="1208" /></a></span> </td> <td style="font-size:11pt; padding: 4pt; line-height: 1.25em; color:black;"><b>1st</b> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><div style="float: left; border:solid #3d4a67 1px; margin: 1px;"> <table cellspacing="0" style="width: 220px; background:#fffacd;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width: 80px; height: 45px; background:#fffacd;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1943-08-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/1943-08-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/80px-1943-08-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="78" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/1943-08-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/120px-1943-08-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/1943-08-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/160px-1943-08-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1249" data-file-height="1214" /></a></span> </td> <td style="width: 90px; height: 45px; background:#fffacd;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1943-08-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/1943-08-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/80px-1943-08-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="77" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/1943-08-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/120px-1943-08-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/1943-08-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/160px-1943-08-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1263" data-file-height="1210" /></a></span> </td> <td style="font-size:11pt; padding: 4pt; line-height: 1.25em; color:black;"><b>15th</b> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dd>1: <a href="/wiki/Operation_Tidal_Wave" title="Operation Tidal Wave">Operation Tidal Wave</a>: Oil refineries at <a href="/wiki/Ploie%C8%99ti" title="Ploiești">Ploiești</a>, <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a>, are bombed by <a href="/wiki/19th_Air_Division" title="19th Air Division">U.S. IX Bomber Command</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />: Japan declares independence for the <a href="/wiki/State_of_Burma" title="State of Burma">State of Burma</a> under <a href="/wiki/Ba_Maw" title="Ba Maw">Ba Maw</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>2: 2,897 <a href="/wiki/Romani_people" title="Romani people">Romani</a> are gassed when their camp at <a href="/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp#The_Gypsy_camp" title="Auschwitz concentration camp">Auschwitz</a> is liquidated.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />: <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy#Military_service" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy's</a> <a href="/wiki/Motor_Torpedo_Boat_PT-109" class="mw-redirect" title="Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109">PT-109</a> is rammed in two and sunk off the <a href="/wiki/Solomon_Islands_(archipelago)" title="Solomon Islands (archipelago)">Solomon Islands</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>3: The first of two "<a href="/wiki/George_S._Patton_slapping_incidents" title="George S. Patton slapping incidents">George S. Patton slapping incidents</a>" occurs in Sicily.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>5: Swedish government announces it will no longer allow German troops and war material to <a href="/wiki/Transit_of_German_troops_through_Finland_and_Sweden" title="Transit of German troops through Finland and Sweden">transit Swedish railways</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />: Russians recapture <a href="/wiki/Oryol" title="Oryol">Orel</a><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Belgorod" title="Belgorod">Belgorod</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>6/7: The U.S. wins the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Vella_Gulf" title="Battle of Vella Gulf">Battle of Vella Gulf</a> off <a href="/wiki/Kolombangara" title="Kolombangara">Kolombangara</a> in the Solomons.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>6: German troops start pouring in to take over Italy's defences.<sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>11: German and Italian forces begin to evacuate Sicily.<sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>15: The <a href="/wiki/Land_Battle_of_Vella_Lavella" class="mw-redirect" title="Land Battle of Vella Lavella">Land Battle of Vella Lavella</a> island in the Solomons begins.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />: US and Canadian troops invade Kiska Island in the Aleutians, not knowing the Japanese have already evacuated.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>16: Polish Jews begin a resistance with scant weaponry in <a href="/wiki/Bia%C5%82ystok_Ghetto_Uprising" class="mw-redirect" title="Białystok Ghetto Uprising">Białystok</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The leaders commit <a href="/wiki/Suicide" title="Suicide">suicide</a> when they run out of ammunition.<br />: U.S. troops enter <a href="/wiki/Messina" title="Messina">Messina</a>, Sicily.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>17: All of Sicily now controlled by the Allies.<sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />: Heavy loss of Allied bombers in the <a href="/wiki/Schweinfurt%E2%80%93Regensburg_mission" title="Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission">Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />: <a href="/wiki/Operation_Crossbow" title="Operation Crossbow">Operation Crossbow</a> begins with <a href="/wiki/Operation_Hydra_(1943)" title="Operation Hydra (1943)">Operation Hydra</a> when the RAF bombs the <a href="/wiki/Peenem%C3%BCnde" title="Peenemünde">Peenemünde</a> V-2 rocket facility.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>17/18: <a href="/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal">Portugal</a>, referencing the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Portuguese_Treaty_of_1373" title="Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373">Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373</a>, allows the Allies to use the <a href="/wiki/Azores_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Azores Islands">Azores Islands</a> for air and naval bases.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>19: Roosevelt and Churchill signed the <a href="/wiki/Quebec_Agreement" title="Quebec Agreement">Quebec Agreement</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Quebec_Conference,_1943" class="mw-redirect" title="Quebec Conference, 1943">Quebec Conference</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>23: <a href="/wiki/Operation_Polkovodets_Rumyantsev" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev">Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev</a> liberates <a href="/wiki/Kharkiv" title="Kharkiv">Kharkov</a>, Ukraine.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Battle of Kursk has become the first successful major Soviet summer offensive of the war.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>29: During the <a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_Denmark_by_Nazi_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Occupation of Denmark by Nazi Germany">Occupation of Denmark by Nazi Germany</a>, martial law replaced the Danish government.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>31: The <a href="/wiki/Northwest_African_Air_Forces" title="Northwest African Air Forces">Northwest African Air Forces</a> conducts an air raid against the Italian city of <a href="/wiki/Pisa" title="Pisa">Pisa</a>.</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="September">September</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1943)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: September"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table border="0" style="float:right;"> <tbody><tr> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><b>September 1943</b></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><div style="float: left; border:solid #3d4a67 1px; margin: 1px;"> <table cellspacing="0" style="width: 220px; background:#fffacd;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width: 80px; height: 45px; background:#fffacd;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1943-09-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/1943-09-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/80px-1943-09-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="77" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/1943-09-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/120px-1943-09-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/1943-09-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/160px-1943-09-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1258" data-file-height="1210" /></a></span> </td> <td style="width: 90px; height: 45px; background:#fffacd;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1943-09-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/1943-09-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/80px-1943-09-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="77" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/1943-09-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/120px-1943-09-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/1943-09-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/160px-1943-09-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1258" data-file-height="1212" /></a></span> </td> <td style="font-size:11pt; padding: 4pt; line-height: 1.25em; color:black;"><b>1st</b> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><div style="float: left; border:solid #3d4a67 1px; margin: 1px;"> <table cellspacing="0" style="width: 220px; background:#fffacd;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width: 80px; height: 45px; background:#fffacd;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1943-09-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/1943-09-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/80px-1943-09-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="77" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/1943-09-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/120px-1943-09-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/1943-09-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/160px-1943-09-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1261" data-file-height="1208" /></a></span> </td> <td style="width: 90px; height: 45px; background:#fffacd;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1943-09-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/1943-09-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/80px-1943-09-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="77" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/1943-09-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/120px-1943-09-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/1943-09-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/160px-1943-09-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1258" data-file-height="1215" /></a></span> </td> <td style="font-size:11pt; padding: 4pt; line-height: 1.25em; color:black;"><b>15th</b> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dd>1: 22,750,000 British men and women are either in the services or Civil Defence or doing essential war work, according to the U.K. Ministry of Labour.<sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>3: A secret Italian Armistice is signed and Italy drops out of the war. Mainland <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a> is <a href="/wiki/Allied_invasion_of_Italy" title="Allied invasion of Italy">invaded</a> when the <a href="/wiki/XIII_Corps_(United_Kingdom)" title="XIII Corps (United Kingdom)">British XXIII Corps</a> lands at <a href="/wiki/Reggio_Calabria" title="Reggio Calabria">Reggio Calabria</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <br />: Nazi Germany begins the evacuation of civilians from Berlin.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>4: Soviet Union declares war on Bulgaria.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Accuracy_dispute#Disputed_statement" title="Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute"><span title="The material near this tag is possibly inaccurate or nonfactual. (December 2022)">dubious</span></a> – <a href="/wiki/Talk:Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1943)#Sept_1943_or_Sept_1944?" title="Talk:Timeline of World War II (1943)">discuss</a></i>]</sup><br />: The <a href="/wiki/503rd_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)" title="503rd Infantry Regiment (United States)">503rd Parachute Regiment</a> under American General <a href="/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur" title="Douglas MacArthur">Douglas MacArthur</a> lands and occupies <a href="/wiki/Nadzab" title="Nadzab">Nadzab</a>, just west of the port city of <a href="/wiki/Lae" title="Lae">Lae</a> in northeastern New Guinea. Lae falls into Australian hands and Australian troops take <a href="/wiki/Salamaua" title="Salamaua">Salamaua</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>8: Eisenhower publicly announces the <a href="/wiki/Armistice_of_Cassibile" title="Armistice of Cassibile">surrender of Italy</a> to the Allies. The Germans enact <a href="/wiki/Operation_Achse" title="Operation Achse">Operation Achse</a>, the disarmament of Italian armed forces.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />:The USAAF bombs the German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone at <a href="/wiki/Frascati" title="Frascati">Frascati</a>.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>9: The Allies land at Salerno, Italy; meanwhile the British troops take <a href="/wiki/Taranto" title="Taranto">Taranto</a> in the heel of the Italian "boot".<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Allied strategy aims at a "drive" up the "boot".<br />: <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> declares war on Germany.<sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>10: German troops occupy <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Italian fleet meanwhile surrenders at Malta and other Mediterranean ports.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>11: British troops enter <a href="/wiki/Bari" title="Bari">Bari</a> in southeastern Italy.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>12: Mussolini is rescued by aircraft from mountaintop captivity by German SS troops led by <a href="/wiki/Otto_Skorzeny" title="Otto Skorzeny">Otto Skorzeny</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mussolini is then set up by Hitler, who remains loyal to his old friend, as the head of the puppet "<a href="/wiki/Italian_Social_Republic" title="Italian Social Republic">Italian Social Republic</a>".</dd></dl> <dl><dd>13: The Salerno beachhead is in jeopardy, as German counterattacks increase.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>14: German troops commence the <a href="/wiki/Holocaust_of_Viannos" class="mw-redirect" title="Holocaust of Viannos">Holocaust of Viannos</a> in Crete that will continue for two more days.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>15: <a href="/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek" title="Chiang Kai-shek">Chiang Kai-shek</a> asks that General Stilwell, American military advisor/commander, be recalled for suggesting an alliance with the Communists.<sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>16: British forces land on various Italian-held Greek islands in the Aegean Sea, beginning the <a href="/wiki/Dodecanese_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Dodecanese Campaign">Dodecanese Campaign</a>.<br />: British and American troops link up near the Salerno beachhead.<sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>19: German troops evacuate <a href="/wiki/Sardinia" title="Sardinia">Sardinia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>21: The battle of the Solomons can now be considered at an unofficial end.<br />: The <a href="/wiki/Massacre_of_the_Acqui_Division" title="Massacre of the Acqui Division">Massacre of the Acqui Division</a> begins: After resisting for a week, the Italian <i>Acqui</i> division on the Greek island of Cephallonia surrenders to the Germans. During the next days, over 4,500 Italians are executed and a further 3,000 are lost during transport at sea.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>22: Australian forces land at <a href="/wiki/Finschhafen" title="Finschhafen">Finschhafen</a>, a small port in New Guinea.<sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Japanese continue the battle well into October.<br />: British <a href="/wiki/Midget_submarine" title="Midget submarine">midget submarines</a> attack the <a href="/wiki/German_battleship_Tirpitz" title="German battleship Tirpitz">German battleship Tirpitz</a>, at anchor in a Norwegian fjord, crippling her for six months.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>25: The Red Army retakes <a href="/wiki/Smolensk" title="Smolensk">Smolensk</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>26: Germans assault the island of Leros, beginning the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Leros" title="Battle of Leros">Battle of Leros</a>.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>27: The Germans take over the island of <a href="/wiki/Corfu" title="Corfu">Corfu</a> from the Italians, the previous occupiers.<sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <br />: <a href="/wiki/Sheng_Shicai" title="Sheng Shicai">Sheng Shicai</a> has <a href="/wiki/Mao_Zedong" title="Mao Zedong">Mao Zedong</a>'s brother <a href="/wiki/Mao_Zemin" title="Mao Zemin">Mao Zemin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chen_Tanqiu" title="Chen Tanqiu">Chen Tanqiu</a>, a founder of the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party" title="Chinese Communist Party">Chinese Communist Party</a>, executed.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>28: The people of <a href="/wiki/Naples" title="Naples">Naples</a>, sensing the approach of the Allies, <a href="/wiki/Four_days_of_Naples" class="mw-redirect" title="Four days of Naples">rise up</a> against the German occupiers.<sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>30: With the Gestapo starting to round up Danish Jews, certain Danes are secretly sending their Jewish countrymen to Sweden by means of dangerous boat crossings.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2db_1-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etherington_4-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etherington-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="October">October</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1943)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: October"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table border="0" style="float:right;"> <tbody><tr> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><b>October 1943</b></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><div style="float: left; border:solid #3d4a67 1px; margin: 1px;"> <table cellspacing="0" style="width: 220px; background:#fffacd;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width: 80px; height: 45px; background:#fffacd;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1943-10-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/1943-10-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/80px-1943-10-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="77" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/1943-10-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/120px-1943-10-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/1943-10-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/160px-1943-10-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1265" data-file-height="1212" /></a></span> </td> <td style="width: 90px; height: 45px; background:#fffacd;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1943-10-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/1943-10-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/80px-1943-10-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="78" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/1943-10-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/120px-1943-10-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/1943-10-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/160px-1943-10-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1247" data-file-height="1214" /></a></span> </td> <td style="font-size:11pt; padding: 4pt; line-height: 1.25em; color:black;"><b>1st</b> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><div style="float: left; border:solid #3d4a67 1px; margin: 1px;"> <table cellspacing="0" style="width: 220px; background:#fffacd;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width: 80px; height: 45px; background:#fffacd;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1943-10-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/1943-10-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/80px-1943-10-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="77" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/1943-10-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/120px-1943-10-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/1943-10-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/160px-1943-10-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1259" data-file-height="1211" /></a></span> </td> <td style="width: 90px; height: 45px; background:#fffacd;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1943-10-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/1943-10-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/80px-1943-10-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="78" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/1943-10-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/120px-1943-10-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/1943-10-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/160px-1943-10-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1249" data-file-height="1217" /></a></span> </td> <td style="font-size:11pt; padding: 4pt; line-height: 1.25em; color:black;"><b>15th</b> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dd>This month: <a href="/wiki/Ruzagayura_famine" title="Ruzagayura famine">Ruzagayura famine</a> starts (until December 1944) in the Belgian African colony of <a href="/wiki/Ruanda-Urundi" title="Ruanda-Urundi">Ruanda-Urundi</a>.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>1: <a href="/wiki/Naples#Italian_unification_to_the_present_day" title="Naples">Neapolitans complete their uprising and free Naples from German military occupation.</a></dd></dl> <dl><dd>3: Churchill appoints <a href="/wiki/Louis_Mountbatten,_1st_Earl_Mountbatten_of_Burma" class="mw-redirect" title="Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma">Lord Louis Mountbatten</a> the commander of <a href="/wiki/South-East_Asian_theatre_of_World_War_II#Allied_command_structure" title="South-East Asian theatre of World War II">South East Asia Command</a>.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>3: The Germans <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kos_(1943)" title="Battle of Kos (1943)">conquer the island of Kos</a>.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>4: <a href="/wiki/Corsica#History" title="Corsica">Corsica</a> is liberated by Free French forces.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2008)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>5: The Allies cross Italy's <a href="/wiki/Volturno_Line" title="Volturno Line">Volturno Line</a>.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>6: The <a href="/wiki/Naval_Battle_of_Vella_Lavella" class="mw-redirect" title="Naval Battle of Vella Lavella">Naval Battle of Vella Lavella</a> completes the second phase of <a href="/wiki/Operation_Cartwheel" title="Operation Cartwheel">Operation Cartwheel</a>.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>7: <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Wake_Island#War_crimes" title="Battle of Wake Island">The Japanese execute 98 American civilians</a> on <a href="/wiki/Wake_Island" title="Wake Island">Wake Island</a>.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>9: <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> <a href="/wiki/VII_Corps_(United_States)" title="VII Corps (United States)">VII Corps</a> arrives in European Theater.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>10: <a href="/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek" title="Chiang Kai-shek">Chiang Kai-shek</a> takes the oath of office as chairman of <a href="/wiki/Nationalist_Government_(China)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nationalist Government (China)">Nationalist Government (China)</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>12: <a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_Rabaul_(November_1943)#Land_based_air_attacks" title="Bombing of Rabaul (November 1943)">Operation Cartwheel</a> begins a bombing campaign against <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Rabaul_(1942)#Aftermath" title="Battle of Rabaul (1942)">Rabaul</a>.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>13: <a href="/wiki/Pietro_Badoglio" title="Pietro Badoglio">Italy</a> declares war on <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>14: 229 of 292 <a href="/wiki/B-17_Flying_Fortress" class="mw-redirect" title="B-17 Flying Fortress">B-17s</a> reached the target in the <a href="/wiki/Second_Raid_on_Schweinfurt" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Raid on Schweinfurt">Second Raid on Schweinfurt</a>. Losses are so heavy that the long range daylight bombing campaign is suspended until the bombers can be escorted by P-51 fighters.<br />:Members of the <a href="/wiki/Sobibor_extermination_camp" title="Sobibor extermination camp">Sobibor extermination camp</a> underground, led by Polish-Jewish prisoner <a href="/wiki/Leon_Feldhendler" class="mw-redirect" title="Leon Feldhendler">Leon Feldhendler</a> and Soviet-Jewish POW <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pechersky" title="Alexander Pechersky">Alexander Pechersky</a>, succeeded in covertly killing eleven German SS officers and a number of camp guards. Although their plan was to kill all the SS and walk out of the main gate of the camp, the killings were discovered and the inmates ran for their lives under fire. About 300 out of the 600 prisoners in the camp escaped into the forests.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>18: The <a href="/wiki/Moscow_Conference_(1943)" title="Moscow Conference (1943)">Third Moscow Conference</a> convened.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>19: The German War Office contracts the <a href="/wiki/Mittelwerk" title="Mittelwerk">Mittelwerk</a> to produce 12,000 <a href="/wiki/V-2_rocket" title="V-2 rocket">V-2 rockets</a>.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>22/23: An <a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_Kassel_in_World_War_II" title="Bombing of Kassel in World War II">air raid on Kassel</a> causes a seven-day <a href="/wiki/Firestorm" title="Firestorm">firestorm</a>.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>23: Cruiser <a href="/wiki/HMS_Charybdis_(88)" title="HMS Charybdis (88)">HMS <i>Charybdis</i></a> sunk, and destroyer HMS <i>Limbourne</i> damaged, by German torpedo boats off the North coast of <a href="/wiki/Brittany" title="Brittany">Brittany</a> with large loss of life. Bodies of 21 sailors and marines washed up on the Island of Guernsey. Buried with full military honours by the German Occupation authorities, allowing around 5,000 Islanders to attend and lay some 900 wreaths.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>25: The Red Army takes <a href="/wiki/Dnipropetrovsk#1919–1944:_in_the_Soviet_Union_and_under_Nazi_rule" class="mw-redirect" title="Dnipropetrovsk">Dnipropetrovsk</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2008)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>29: Troops replace striking London dockworkers.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2008)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>31: Heavy rains in Italy slow the Allied advance south of Rome.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2008)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="November">November</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1943)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: November"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table border="0" style="float:right;"> <tbody><tr> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><b>November 1943</b></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><div style="float: left; border:solid #3d4a67 1px; margin: 1px;"> <table cellspacing="0" style="width: 220px; background:#fffacd;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width: 80px; height: 45px; background:#fffacd;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1943-11-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/1943-11-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/80px-1943-11-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="77" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/1943-11-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/120px-1943-11-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/1943-11-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/160px-1943-11-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1259" data-file-height="1213" /></a></span> </td> <td style="width: 90px; height: 45px; background:#fffacd;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1943-11-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/1943-11-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/80px-1943-11-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="79" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/1943-11-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/120px-1943-11-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/1943-11-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/160px-1943-11-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1229" data-file-height="1215" /></a></span> </td> <td style="font-size:11pt; padding: 4pt; line-height: 1.25em; color:black;"><b>1st</b> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><div style="float: left; border:solid #3d4a67 1px; margin: 1px;"> <table cellspacing="0" style="width: 220px; background:#fffacd;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width: 80px; height: 45px; background:#fffacd;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1943-11-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/1943-11-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/80px-1943-11-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="77" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/1943-11-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/120px-1943-11-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/1943-11-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/160px-1943-11-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1256" data-file-height="1212" /></a></span> </td> <td style="width: 90px; height: 45px; background:#fffacd;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1943-11-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/1943-11-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/80px-1943-11-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="78" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/1943-11-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/120px-1943-11-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/1943-11-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/160px-1943-11-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1252" data-file-height="1214" /></a></span> </td> <td style="font-size:11pt; padding: 4pt; line-height: 1.25em; color:black;"><b>15th</b> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dd>1: In <a href="/wiki/Operation_Goodtime" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Goodtime">Operation Goodtime</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States_Marines" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Marines">United States Marines</a> land on Bougainville in the <a href="/wiki/Solomon_Islands" title="Solomon Islands">Solomon Islands</a>. The fighting on this island will continue to the end of the war.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>2: In the early morning hours, <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> and <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japanese</a> ships fight the inconclusive <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Empress_Augusta_Bay" title="Battle of Empress Augusta Bay">Battle of Empress Augusta Bay</a> off Bougainville, but the Japanese are unable to land reinforcements.<br />: British troops, in Italy, reach the <a href="/wiki/Garigliano_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Garigliano River">Garigliano River</a>.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>3: Some 43,000 Jews were shot by Germans at three camps in German-occupied Poland in <a href="/wiki/Aktion_Erntefest" class="mw-redirect" title="Aktion Erntefest">Aktion Erntefest</a> in a two-day "Harvest Festival".</dd></dl> <dl><dd>5: The Italians <a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_the_Vatican" class="mw-redirect" title="Bombing of the Vatican">bomb the Vatican</a> in a failed attempt to knock out the Vatican radio.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>6: The <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a> liberates the city of <a href="/wiki/Kiev" class="mw-redirect" title="Kiev">Kiev</a>. This is an anniversary of the Russian Revolution in 1917.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>9: Allies take Castiglione, Italy.<br />: General De Gaulle becomes President of the <a href="/wiki/French_Committee_of_National_Liberation" title="French Committee of National Liberation">French Committee of National Liberation</a>.<br />: Members of the <a href="/wiki/Belgian_Resistance" title="Belgian Resistance">Belgian Resistance</a> publish <a href="/wiki/Faux_Soir" title="Faux Soir">a fake issue</a> of the collaborationist newspaper <i><a href="/wiki/Le_Soir" title="Le Soir">Le Soir</a></i>, mocking the German strategic situation.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>11: American air power continues to hit Rabaul.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>12: Germans overrun British forces on the Dodecanese islands, off Turkey.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>14: Heavy bombers hit Tarawa, in the Gilbert Islands in the Pacific.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>15: <a href="/wiki/Allied_Expeditionary_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Allied Expeditionary Force">Allied Expeditionary Force</a> for the invasion of Europe is officially formed.<br />: <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">German</a> <a href="/wiki/SS" class="mw-redirect" title="SS">SS</a> leader <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler" title="Heinrich Himmler">Heinrich Himmler</a> orders that <a href="/wiki/Romani_people" title="Romani people">Gypsies</a> and "part-Gypsies" are to be put "on the same level as <a href="/wiki/Jew" class="mw-redirect" title="Jew">Jews</a> and placed in <a href="/wiki/Concentration_camp" title="Concentration camp">concentration camps</a>."</dd></dl> <dl><dd>16: Anti-German resistance in Italy increases; there are explosions in Milan.<br />: The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Leros" title="Battle of Leros">Battle of Leros</a> ends with the surrender of the British and Italian forces to the Germans.<br />: 160 <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> bombers strike a <a href="/wiki/Hydro-electric_power" class="mw-redirect" title="Hydro-electric power">hydro-electric power</a> facility and <a href="/wiki/Heavy_water" title="Heavy water">heavy water</a> factory in <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">German</a>-controlled <a href="/wiki/Vemork" title="Vemork">Vemork</a>, <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norway</a>.<br />: Japanese <a href="/wiki/Submarine" title="Submarine">submarine</a> sinks surfaced submarine <a href="/wiki/USS_Corvina" title="USS Corvina">USS <i>Corvina</i></a> near <a href="/wiki/Chuuk_Lagoon" title="Chuuk Lagoon">Truk</a>.</dd></dl> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Teheran_conference-1943.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Teheran_conference-1943.jpg/220px-Teheran_conference-1943.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Teheran_conference-1943.jpg/330px-Teheran_conference-1943.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Teheran_conference-1943.jpg/440px-Teheran_conference-1943.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5680" data-file-height="4544" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Tehran_conference" class="mw-redirect" title="Tehran conference">Tehran conference</a> (28 November 1943): Left to right: <a href="/wiki/General_Secretary_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">General Secretary of the Communist Party</a> <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a>, <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></figcaption></figure> <dl><dd>18: 440 <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> planes bomb <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a> causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF lose nine aircraft and 53 aviators.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>19: Prisoners of the <a href="/wiki/Janowska_concentration_camp" title="Janowska concentration camp">Janowska concentration camp</a> stage a mass escape/uprising when they are ordered to cover up evidence of a mass-murder. Most are rounded up and killed.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>20: <a href="/wiki/Operation_Galvanic" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Galvanic">Operation Galvanic</a> begins - <a href="/wiki/United_States_Marines" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Marines">United States Marines</a> land on <a href="/wiki/Tarawa_Atoll" class="mw-redirect" title="Tarawa Atoll">Tarawa</a> and <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a> forces assault <a href="/wiki/Makin_(islands)" class="mw-redirect" title="Makin (islands)">Makin</a> atoll in the <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Islands" title="Gilbert Islands">Gilbert Islands</a> and take heavy fire from <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japanese</a> shore guns. The American public is shocked by the heavy losses of life on Tarawa.<br />: British troops under Montgomery continue their slow advances on the eastern side of Italy.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>22: The <a href="/wiki/Cairo_Conference_(1943)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cairo Conference (1943)">Cairo Conference</a>: US President <a href="/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt" class="mw-redirect" title="Franklin Delano Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a>, British Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>, and ROC leader <a href="/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek" title="Chiang Kai-shek">Chiang Kai-shek</a> meet in <a href="/wiki/Cairo" title="Cairo">Cairo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>, to discuss ways to defeat <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>23: Heavy damage from Allied bombing of Berlin. Notably, the <a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Opernhaus" class="mw-redirect" title="Deutsche Opernhaus">Deutsche Opernhaus</a> on Bismarckstraße in the <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a> district of <a href="/wiki/Charlottenburg" title="Charlottenburg">Charlottenburg</a> is destroyed.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>24: Heavy bombing of Berlin continues.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>25: <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">Americans</a> and <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japanese</a> fight the naval <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_St._George" title="Battle of Cape St. George">Battle of Cape St. George</a> between <a href="/wiki/Buka_Island" title="Buka Island">Buka</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_Ireland_(island)" title="New Ireland (island)">New Ireland</a>. Admiral Arleigh Burke's destroyers distinguish themselves.<br />: Rangoon is bombed by American heavy bombers.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>26: The Red Army offensive in the Ukraine continues.<br />: The Cairo Conference ("Sextant") ends; Roosevelt, Churchill, and Chiang Kai-shek complete the <a href="/wiki/1943_Cairo_Declaration" title="1943 Cairo Declaration">Cairo Declaration</a>, which deals with the overall strategic plan against Japan.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>27: Huge civilian losses in Berlin as heavy bombing raids continue.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>28: The <a href="/wiki/Tehran_Conference" title="Tehran Conference">Tehran Conference</a>. US President <a href="/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt" class="mw-redirect" title="Franklin Delano Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a>, British Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> and Soviet Leader <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a> meet in <a href="/wiki/Tehran" title="Tehran">Tehran</a> to discuss war strategy; (on 30 November they establish an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe codenamed <a href="/wiki/Operation_Overlord" title="Operation Overlord">Operation Overlord</a>). Stalin at last has the promise he has been waiting for.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>29: Second session of <a href="/wiki/AVNOJ" class="mw-redirect" title="AVNOJ">AVNOJ</a>, the Anti-fascist council of national liberation of <a href="/wiki/Yugoslavia" title="Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</a>, is held in <a href="/wiki/Jajce" title="Jajce">Jajce</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Bosnia and Herzegovina">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a>, determining the post-war order of the country.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>30: In Malaya, Japanese introduce Government Notification No. 41, encouraging families to grow their own food crops and vegetables. Families who were successful would be awarded prizes, while families failed to comply with this notification or left their vacant lands unplanted would be punished. This notification was written by Itami Masakichi (Penang Shu Chokan) on 25 November 2603/1943.</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="December">December</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1943)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: December"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table border="0" style="float:right;"> <tbody><tr> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><b>December 1943</b></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><div style="float: left; border:solid #3d4a67 1px; margin: 1px;"> <table cellspacing="0" style="width: 220px; background:#fffacd;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width: 80px; height: 45px; background:#fffacd;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1943-12-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/1943-12-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/80px-1943-12-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="78" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/1943-12-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/120px-1943-12-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/1943-12-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/160px-1943-12-01JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1239" data-file-height="1214" /></a></span> </td> <td style="width: 90px; height: 45px; background:#fffacd;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1943-12-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/1943-12-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/80px-1943-12-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="77" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/1943-12-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/120px-1943-12-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/1943-12-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/160px-1943-12-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1259" data-file-height="1205" /></a></span> </td> <td style="font-size:11pt; padding: 4pt; line-height: 1.25em; color:black;"><b>1st</b> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><div style="float: left; border:solid #3d4a67 1px; margin: 1px;"> <table cellspacing="0" style="width: 220px; background:#fffacd;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width: 80px; height: 45px; background:#fffacd;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1943-12-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/1943-12-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/80px-1943-12-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="77" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/1943-12-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/120px-1943-12-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/1943-12-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/160px-1943-12-15JapWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1261" data-file-height="1215" /></a></span> </td> <td style="width: 90px; height: 45px; background:#fffacd;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1943-12-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/1943-12-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/80px-1943-12-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="77" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/1943-12-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/120px-1943-12-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/1943-12-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg/160px-1943-12-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1252" data-file-height="1205" /></a></span> </td> <td style="font-size:11pt; padding: 4pt; line-height: 1.25em; color:black;"><b>15th</b> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ww2_allied_axis_1943_dec.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Ww2_allied_axis_1943_dec.png/300px-Ww2_allied_axis_1943_dec.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="127" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Ww2_allied_axis_1943_dec.png/450px-Ww2_allied_axis_1943_dec.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Ww2_allied_axis_1943_dec.png/600px-Ww2_allied_axis_1943_dec.png 2x" data-file-width="1480" data-file-height="628" /></a><figcaption>The state of the Allies and Axis powers in December 1943</figcaption></figure> <dl><dd>2: The Germans conduct a highly successful <a href="/wiki/Air_Raid_on_Bari" class="mw-redirect" title="Air Raid on Bari">Air Raid on Bari</a>, Italy. One of the German bombs hits an Allied cargo ship carrying <a href="/wiki/Mustard_gas" title="Mustard gas">mustard gas</a>, releasing the chemical which killed 83 Allied soldiers. Over 1000 other soldiers died in the raid.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>3: <a href="/wiki/Edward_R._Murrow" title="Edward R. Murrow">Edward R. Murrow</a> delivers his classic "Orchestrated Hell" broadcast over <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> Radio describing a <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> nighttime bombing raid on <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a>.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>4: In <a href="/wiki/Yugoslavia" title="Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</a>, resistance leader Marshal <a href="/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito" title="Josip Broz Tito">Josip Broz Tito</a> proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>12: Rommel is appointed head of "Fortress Europa", chief planner against the expected Allied offensive.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>13: German soldiers carry out the <a href="/wiki/Massacre_of_Kalavryta" class="mw-redirect" title="Massacre of Kalavryta">Massacre of Kalavryta</a> in southern Greece.</dd> <dd>The <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> <a href="/wiki/VIII_Corps_(United_States)" title="VIII Corps (United States)">VIII Corps</a> arrives in European Theater.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>14: The United States <a href="/wiki/XV_Corps_(United_States)" title="XV Corps (United States)">XV Corps</a> arrives in the European Theater.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>16: <a href="/wiki/Tver" title="Tver">Kalinin</a> is retaken in a large Red Army offensive.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>24: The US General <a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a> becomes the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>26: German battleship <a href="/wiki/German_battleship_Scharnhorst" title="German battleship Scharnhorst"><i>Scharnhorst</i></a> is sunk off North Cape (in the Arctic) by a British force led by the battleship <a href="/wiki/HMS_Duke_of_York" title="HMS Duke of York">HMS <i>Duke of York</i></a>.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>26: American Marines land on Cape Gloucester, New Britain.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>27: General Eisenhower is officially named head of Overlord, the invasion of Normandy.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>28: In Burma, Chinese troops have some success against the Japanese.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>29: Control of the <a href="/wiki/Andaman_Islands" title="Andaman Islands">Andaman Islands</a> is handed over to <a href="/wiki/Azad_Hind" title="Azad Hind">Azad Hind</a> by the Japanese</dd></dl> <dl><dd>30: Japanese air force attacks on Calcutta end.</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span 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href="/wiki/French_West_Africa_in_World_War_II" title="French West Africa in World War II">West Africa</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Atlantic" title="Battle of the Atlantic">Atlantic</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Battle_of_the_Atlantic" title="Timeline of the Battle of the Atlantic">timeline</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/American_Theater_(World_War_II)" class="mw-redirect" title="American Theater (World War II)">Americas</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Aftermath_of_World_War_II" title="Aftermath of World War II">Aftermath</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War" title="Chinese Civil War">Chinese Civil War</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Decolonization" title="Decolonization">Decolonization</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Division_of_Korea" title="Division of Korea">Division of Korea</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/First_Indochina_War" title="First Indochina War">First Indochina War</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Flight_and_expulsion_of_Germans_(1944%E2%80%931950)" title="Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)">Expulsion of Germans</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Greek_Civil_War" title="Greek Civil War">Greek Civil War</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Indonesian_National_Revolution" title="Indonesian National Revolution">Indonesian National Revolution</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Keelhaul" title="Operation Keelhaul"><i>Keelhaul</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Marshall_Plan" title="Marshall Plan">Marshall Plan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Allied-occupied_Germany" title="Allied-occupied Germany">Occupation of Germany</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_Japan" title="Occupation of Japan">Occupation of Japan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Osoaviakhim" title="Operation Osoaviakhim"><i>Osoaviakhim</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Paperclip" title="Operation Paperclip"><i>Paperclip</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Military_occupations_by_the_Soviet_Union" title="Military occupations by the Soviet Union">Soviet occupations</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Baltic_states" title="Occupation of the Baltic states">Baltic</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hungary%E2%80%93Soviet_Union_relations" title="Hungary–Soviet Union relations">Hungary</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Polish_People%27s_Republic" title="Polish People's Republic">Poland</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Soviet_occupation_of_Romania" title="Soviet occupation of Romania">Romania</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Oder%E2%80%93Neisse_line" title="Oder–Neisse line">Territorial changes of Germany</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Final_Settlement_with_Respect_to_Germany" title="Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany">Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/War_crimes_in_World_War_II" title="War crimes in World War II">War crimes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Allied_war_crimes_during_World_War_II" title="Allied war crimes during World War II">Allied war crimes</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Soviet_war_crimes#World_War_II" title="Soviet war crimes">Soviet war crimes</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/British_war_crimes#World_War_II" title="British war crimes">British war crimes</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/United_States_war_crimes#World_War_II" title="United States war crimes">United States war crimes</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_war_crimes#World_War_II" title="German war crimes">German war crimes</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Forced_labour_under_German_rule_during_World_War_II" title="Forced labour under German rule during World War II">forced labour</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/War_crimes_of_the_Wehrmacht" title="War crimes of the Wehrmacht">Wehrmacht war crimes</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/The_Holocaust" title="The Holocaust">The Holocaust</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Aftermath_of_the_Holocaust" title="Aftermath of the Holocaust">Aftermath</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/International_response_to_the_Holocaust" title="International response to the Holocaust">Response</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Nuremberg_trials" title="Nuremberg trials">Nuremberg trials</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Italian_war_crimes" title="Italian war crimes">Italian war crimes</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes" title="Japanese war crimes">Japanese war crimes</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre" title="Nanjing Massacre">Nanjing Massacre</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Unit_731" title="Unit 731">Unit 731</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/International_Military_Tribunal_for_the_Far_East" title="International Military Tribunal for the Far East">Prosecution</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Usta%C5%A1e" title="Ustaše">Croatian war crimes</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Genocide_of_Serbs_in_the_Independent_State_of_Croatia" title="Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia">Genocide of Serbs</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_the_Independent_State_of_Croatia" title="The Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia">Persecution of Jews</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Romania#The_Holocaust" title="History of the Jews in Romania">Romanian war crimes</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Sexual violence</span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_military_brothels_in_World_War_II" title="German military brothels in World War II">German military brothels</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_camp_brothels_in_World_War_II" title="German camp brothels in World War II">Camp brothels</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Germany" title="Rape during the occupation of Germany">Rape during the occupation of Germany</a>  /  <a href="/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Japan" title="Rape during the occupation of Japan">Japan</a>  /  <a href="/wiki/Rape_during_the_Soviet_occupation_of_Poland" title="Rape during the Soviet occupation of Poland">Poland</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Rape_during_the_liberation_of_France" title="Rape during the liberation of France">Rape during the liberation of France</a>  /  <a href="/wiki/Rape_during_the_liberation_of_Serbia" title="Rape during the liberation of Serbia">Serbia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sook_Ching" title="Sook Ching">Sook Ching</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Comfort_women" title="Comfort women">Comfort women</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Manila_massacre#Mass_rapes" title="Manila massacre">Rape of Manila</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Marocchinate" title="Marocchinate">Marocchinate</a></span></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/World_War_II_by_country" title="World War II by country">Participants</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" title="Allies of World War II">Allies</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Algeria_in_World_War_II" title="Algeria in World War II">Algeria</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_Australia_during_World_War_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Military history of Australia during World War II">Australia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Belgium_in_World_War_II" title="Belgium in World War II">Belgium</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Brazil_in_World_War_II" title="Brazil in World War II">Brazil</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bulgaria_during_World_War_II" title="Bulgaria during World War II">Bulgaria</a> (<a href="/wiki/1944_Bulgarian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1944 Bulgarian coup d'état">from September 1944</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Canada_in_World_War_II" title="Canada in World War II">Canada</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War" title="Second Sino-Japanese War">China</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Cuba_during_World_War_II" title="Cuba during World War II">Cuba</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_Czechoslovakia_(1938%E2%80%931945)" title="Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945)">Czechoslovakia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Denmark_in_World_War_II" title="Denmark in World War II">Denmark</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Second_Italo-Ethiopian_War" title="Second Italo-Ethiopian War">Ethiopia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Eswatini_in_World_War_II" title="Eswatini in World War II">Eswatini</a> (formerly Swaziland)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Finland_in_World_War_II" title="Finland in World War II">Finland</a> (<a href="/wiki/Lapland_War" title="Lapland War">from September 1944</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/France_during_World_War_II" title="France during World War II">France</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Free_France" title="Free France">Free France</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_Greece_during_World_War_II" title="Military history of Greece during World War II">Greece</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/India_in_World_War_II" title="India in World War II">India</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Italian_Co-belligerent_Army" title="Italian Co-belligerent Army">Italy</a> (<a href="/wiki/Italian_Civil_War" title="Italian Civil War">from September 1943</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Liberia_in_World_War_II" title="Liberia in World War II">Liberia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Luxembourg_in_World_War_II" title="Luxembourg in World War II">Luxembourg</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mexico_during_World_War_II" title="Mexico during World War II">Mexico</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_Netherlands_during_World_War_II" title="Military history of the Netherlands during World War II">Netherlands</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_Newfoundland_during_World_War_II" title="Military history of Newfoundland during World War II">Newfoundland</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_New_Zealand_during_World_War_II" title="Military history of New Zealand during World War II">New Zealand</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Norwegian_campaign" title="Norwegian campaign">Norway</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_Philippines_during_World_War_II" title="Military history of the Philippines during World War II">Philippines</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/History_of_Poland_(1939%E2%80%931945)" title="History of Poland (1939–1945)">Poland</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Romania_in_World_War_II" title="Romania in World War II">Romania</a> (<a href="/wiki/1944_Romanian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1944 Romanian coup d'état">from August 1944</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sierra_Leone_in_World_War_II" title="Sierra Leone in World War II">Sierra Leone</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_South_Africa_during_World_War_II" title="Military history of South Africa during World War II">South Africa</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Southern_Rhodesia_in_World_War_II" title="Southern Rhodesia in World War II">Southern Rhodesia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union_in_World_War_II" title="Soviet Union in World War II">Soviet Union</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tuva_in_World_War_II" title="Tuva in World War II">Tuva</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_United_Kingdom_during_World_War_II" title="Military history of the United Kingdom during World War II">United Kingdom</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/British_Empire_in_World_War_II" title="British Empire in World War II">British Empire</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_United_States_during_World_War_II" title="Military history of the United States during World War II">United States</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Puerto_Ricans_in_World_War_II" title="Puerto Ricans in World War II">Puerto Rico</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/World_War_II_in_Yugoslavia" title="World War II in Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Axis_powers" title="Axis powers">Axis</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Italian_protectorate_of_Albania_(1939%E2%80%931943)" class="mw-redirect" title="Italian protectorate of Albania (1939–1943)">Albania protectorate</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bulgaria_during_World_War_II" title="Bulgaria during World War II">Bulgaria</a> (until September 1944)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/State_of_Burma" title="State of Burma">State of Burma</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Wang_Jingwei_regime" title="Wang Jingwei regime">Republic of China (Wang Jingwei)</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Independent_State_of_Croatia" title="Independent State of Croatia">Independent State of Croatia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Finland_in_World_War_II" title="Finland in World War II">Finland</a> (until September 1944)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">German Reich</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hungary_in_World_War_II" title="Hungary in World War II">Hungary</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Azad_Hind" title="Azad Hind">Azad Hind</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Iraqi_War" title="Anglo-Iraqi War">Iraq</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_Italy_during_World_War_II" title="Military history of Italy during World War II">Italy</a> (until September 1943)</span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Italian_Social_Republic" title="Italian Social Republic">Italian Social Republic</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Empire_of_Japan" title="Empire of Japan">Empire of Japan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Manchukuo" title="Manchukuo">Manchukuo</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mengjiang" title="Mengjiang">Mengjiang</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Second_Philippine_Republic" title="Second Philippine Republic">Philippines</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Romania_in_World_War_II" title="Romania in World War II">Romania</a> (until August 1944)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Slovak_Republic_(1939%E2%80%931945)" title="Slovak Republic (1939–1945)">Slovak Republic</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Thailand_in_World_War_II" title="Thailand in World War II">Thailand</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Vichy_France" title="Vichy France">Vichy France</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Leased_Territory_of_Guangzhouwan" title="Leased Territory of Guangzhouwan">Guangzhouwan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/French_Indochina_in_World_War_II" title="French Indochina in World War II">French Indochina</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Madagascar_in_World_War_II" title="Madagascar in World War II">French Madagascar</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mandate_for_Syria_and_the_Lebanon" title="Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon">Syria–Lebanon</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/French_North_Africa" title="French North Africa">French North Africa</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/French_West_Africa_in_World_War_II" title="French West Africa in World War II">French West Africa</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Template:Collaboration_with_Axis_Powers" title="Template:Collaboration with Axis Powers">Collaboration</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Neutral_powers_during_World_War_II" title="Neutral powers during World War II">Neutral</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Afghanistan" title="Kingdom of Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/History_of_Andorra#20th_and_21st_centuries" title="History of Andorra">Andorra</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bhutan" title="Bhutan">Bhutan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Irish_neutrality_during_World_War_II" title="Irish neutrality during World War II">Ireland</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Liechtenstein_in_World_War_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Liechtenstein in World War II">Liechtenstein</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Invasion_and_occupation_of_Monaco_during_World_War_II#World_War_II" title="Invasion and occupation of Monaco during World War II">Monaco</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Portugal_during_World_War_II" title="Portugal during World War II">Portugal</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/History_of_San_Marino#World_War_II" title="History of San Marino">San Marino</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Neutral_powers_during_World_War_II#Saudi_Arabia" title="Neutral powers during World War II">Saudi Arabia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Spain_during_World_War_II" title="Spain during World War II">Spain</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sweden_during_World_War_II" title="Sweden during World War II">Sweden</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Switzerland_during_the_World_Wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Switzerland during the World Wars">Switzerland</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tibet_(1912%E2%80%931951)" title="Tibet (1912–1951)">Tibet</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_Turkey#World_War_II" title="Military history of Turkey">Turkey</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Vatican_City_during_World_War_II" title="Vatican City during World War II">Vatican City</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Yemen#World_War_II_and_after" title="Kingdom of Yemen">Yemen</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Resistance_during_World_War_II" title="Resistance during World War II">Resistance</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/World_War_II_in_Albania" title="World War II in Albania">Albania</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Austrian_resistance" title="Austrian resistance">Austria</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Belgian_Resistance" title="Belgian Resistance">Belgium</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_resistance_movement_during_World_War_II" title="Bulgarian resistance movement during World War II">Bulgaria</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Resistance_in_the_Protectorate_of_Bohemia_and_Moravia" title="Resistance in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia">Czech lands</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Danish_resistance_movement" title="Danish resistance movement">Denmark</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_the_Dutch_East_Indies#Underground_resistance" title="Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies">Dutch East Indies</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Estonian_anti-German_resistance_movement_1941%E2%80%931944" title="Estonian anti-German resistance movement 1941–1944">Estonia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Arbegnoch" title="Arbegnoch">Ethiopia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/French_Resistance" title="French Resistance">France</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_resistance_to_Nazism" title="German resistance to Nazism">Germany</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Greek_resistance" title="Greek resistance">Greece</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Hong_Kong#Anti-Japanese_resistance" title="Japanese occupation of Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Italian_resistance_movement" title="Italian resistance movement">Italy</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Political_dissidence_in_the_Empire_of_Japan#Dissidence_during_World_War_II" title="Political dissidence in the Empire of Japan">Japan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jewish_resistance_in_German-occupied_Europe" title="Jewish resistance in German-occupied Europe">Jews</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korea</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Korean_Liberation_Army" title="Korean Liberation Army">Korean Liberation Army</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Korean_Volunteer_Army" title="Korean Volunteer Army">Korean Volunteer Army</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Latvian_anti-Nazi_resistance_movement_1941%E2%80%931945" title="Latvian anti-Nazi resistance movement 1941–1945">Latvia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Resistance_in_Lithuania_during_World_War_II" title="Resistance in Lithuania during World War II">Lithuania</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Luxembourg_Resistance" title="Luxembourg Resistance">Luxembourg</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Malayan_Peoples%27_Anti-Japanese_Army" title="Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army">Malaya</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dutch_resistance" title="Dutch resistance">Netherlands</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Northeast_Anti-Japanese_United_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army">Northeast China</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Norwegian_resistance_movement" title="Norwegian resistance movement">Norway</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Philippine_resistance_against_Japan" title="Philippine resistance against Japan">Philippines</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Polish_resistance_movement_in_World_War_II" title="Polish resistance movement in World War II">Poland</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Romanian_anti-communist_resistance_movement" title="Romanian anti-communist resistance movement">Romania</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Free_Thai_Movement" title="Free Thai Movement">Thailand</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Soviet_partisans" title="Soviet partisans">Soviet Union</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Slovak_National_Uprising" title="Slovak National Uprising">Slovakia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army" title="Ukrainian Insurgent Army">Western Ukraine</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Vietnam</span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Vi%E1%BB%87t_Nam_Qu%E1%BB%91c_D%C3%A2n_%C4%90%E1%BA%A3ng" title="Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng">Quốc dân Đảng</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Viet_Minh" title="Viet Minh">Viet Minh</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Yugoslav_Partisans" title="Yugoslav Partisans">Yugoslavia</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Prisoner_of_war" title="Prisoner of war">POWs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Finnish_prisoners_of_war_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="Finnish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union">Finnish prisoners in the Soviet Union</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">German prisoners</span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_Azerbaijan" title="German prisoners of war in Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_the_United_States" title="German prisoners of war in the United States">United States</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="German prisoners of war in the United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Italian_prisoners_of_war_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="Italian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union">Italian prisoners in the Soviet Union</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_prisoners_of_war_in_World_War_II" title="Japanese prisoners of war in World War II">Japanese prisoners</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_prisoners_of_war_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_atrocities_committed_against_Polish_prisoners_of_war" title="German atrocities committed against Polish prisoners of war">German atrocities against Polish POWs</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Soviet prisoners</span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Soviet_prisoners_of_war_in_Finland" title="Soviet prisoners of war in Finland">Finland</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_atrocities_committed_against_Soviet_prisoners_of_war" title="German atrocities committed against Soviet prisoners of war">atrocities by Germans</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Polish_prisoners-of-war_in_the_Soviet_Union_after_1939" class="mw-redirect" title="Polish prisoners-of-war in the Soviet Union after 1939">Polish prisoners in the Soviet Union</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Romanian_prisoners_of_war_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="Romanian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union">Romanian prisoners in the Soviet Union</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_timelines_of_World_War_II" title="List of timelines of World War II">Timeline</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th id="Prelude7698" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Causes_of_World_War_II" title="Causes of World War II">Prelude</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Abyssinia_Crisis" title="Abyssinia Crisis">Africa</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Second_Italo-Ethiopian_War" title="Second Italo-Ethiopian War">Second Italo-Ethiopian War</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Events_preceding_World_War_II_in_Asia" title="Events preceding World War II in Asia">Asia</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War" title="Second Sino-Japanese War">Second Sino-Japanese War</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battles_of_Khalkhin_Gol" title="Battles of Khalkhin Gol">Battles of Khalkhin Gol</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Events_preceding_World_War_II_in_Europe" title="Events preceding World War II in Europe">Europe</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Remilitarisation_of_the_Rhineland" title="Remilitarisation of the Rhineland">Remilitarisation of the Rhineland</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Anschluss" title="Anschluss">Anschluss</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Munich_Agreement" title="Munich Agreement">Munich Agreement</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_Czechoslovakia_(1938%E2%80%931945)" title="Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945)">Occupation of Czechoslovakia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Himmler" title="Operation Himmler">Operation Himmler</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Italian_invasion_of_Albania" title="Italian invasion of Albania">Italian invasion of Albania</a></span></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1939)" title="Timeline of World War II (1939)">1939</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland" title="Invasion of Poland">Invasion of Poland</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Atlantic" title="Battle of the Atlantic">Battle of the Atlantic</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Phoney_War" title="Phoney War">Phoney War</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Changsha_(1939)" title="Battle of Changsha (1939)">First Battle of Changsha</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_South_Guangxi" title="Battle of South Guangxi">Battle of South Guangxi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Winter_War" title="Winter War">Winter War</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1939%E2%80%931940_Winter_Offensive" title="1939–1940 Winter Offensive">1939–1940 Winter Offensive</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1940)" title="Timeline of World War II (1940)">1940</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Norwegian_campaign" title="Norwegian campaign">Norwegian campaign</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_invasion_of_Denmark_(1940)" title="German invasion of Denmark (1940)">German invasion of Denmark</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Zaoyang%E2%80%93Yichang" title="Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang">Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_invasion_of_Luxembourg" title="German invasion of Luxembourg">German invasion of Luxembourg</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_invasion_of_the_Netherlands" title="German invasion of the Netherlands">German invasion of the Netherlands</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_invasion_of_Belgium_(1940)" title="German invasion of Belgium (1940)">German invasion of Belgium</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_France" title="Battle of France">Battle of France</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dunkirk_evacuation" title="Dunkirk evacuation">Dunkirk evacuation</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Britain" title="Battle of Britain">Battle of Britain</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Mediterranean" title="Battle of the Mediterranean">Battle of the Mediterranean</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Western_Desert_campaign" title="Western Desert campaign">North Africa</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/French_West_Africa_in_World_War_II" title="French West Africa in World War II">West Africa</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Italian_invasion_of_British_Somaliland" title="Italian invasion of British Somaliland">British Somaliland</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hundred_Regiments_Offensive" title="Hundred Regiments Offensive">Hundred Regiments Offensive</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Baltic_states" title="Occupation of the Baltic states">Baltic states</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Soviet_occupation_of_Bessarabia_and_Northern_Bukovina" title="Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina">Eastern Romania</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_French_Indochina" title="Japanese invasion of French Indochina">Japanese invasion of French Indochina</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Greco-Italian_War" title="Greco-Italian War">Italian invasion of Greece</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Operation_Compass" title="Operation Compass">Compass</a></i></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1941)" title="Timeline of World War II (1941)">1941</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_South_Henan" title="Battle of South Henan">Battle of South Henan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Shanggao" title="Battle of Shanggao">Battle of Shanggao</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Yugoslavia" title="Invasion of Yugoslavia">Invasion of Yugoslavia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_invasion_of_Greece" title="German invasion of Greece">German invasion of Greece</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Crete" title="Battle of Crete">Battle of Crete</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Iraqi_War" title="Anglo-Iraqi War">Anglo-Iraqi War</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_South_Shanxi" title="Battle of South Shanxi">Battle of South Shanxi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Syria%E2%80%93Lebanon_campaign" title="Syria–Lebanon campaign">Syria–Lebanon campaign</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/East_African_campaign_(World_War_II)" title="East African campaign (World War II)">East African campaign</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa" title="Operation Barbarossa">Invasion of the Soviet Union</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Summer_War" title="Summer War">Summer War</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Continuation_War" title="Continuation War">Finland</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Operation_Silver_Fox" title="Operation Silver Fox">Silver Fox</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/June_Uprising_in_Lithuania" title="June Uprising in Lithuania">Lithuania</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kiev_(1941)" title="Battle of Kiev (1941)">Battle of Kiev</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Soviet_invasion_of_Iran" title="Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran">Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Changsha_(1941)" title="Battle of Changsha (1941)">Second Battle of Changsha</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Leningrad" title="Siege of Leningrad">Siege of Leningrad</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Moscow" title="Battle of Moscow">Battle of Moscow</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_Gorky_in_World_War_II" title="Bombing of Gorky in World War II">Bombing of Gorky</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Sevastopol_(1941%E2%80%931942)" title="Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942)">Siege of Sevastopol</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor" title="Attack on Pearl Harbor">Attack on Pearl Harbor</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_Thailand" title="Japanese invasion of Thailand">Japanese invasion of Thailand</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hong_Kong" title="Battle of Hong Kong">Fall of Hong Kong</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Philippines_campaign_(1941%E2%80%931942)" title="Philippines campaign (1941–1942)">Fall of the Philippines</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Guam_(1941)" title="Battle of Guam (1941)">Battle of Guam</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Wake_Island" title="Battle of Wake Island">Battle of Wake Island</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Malayan_campaign" title="Malayan campaign">Malayan campaign</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Borneo_(1941%E2%80%931942)" title="Battle of Borneo (1941–1942)">Battle of Borneo</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_Burma" title="Japanese invasion of Burma">Japanese invasion of Burma</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Changsha_(1941%E2%80%931942)" title="Battle of Changsha (1941–1942)">Third Battle of Changsha</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Great_Famine_(Greece)" title="Great Famine (Greece)">Greek famine of 1941–1944</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1942)" title="Timeline of World War II (1942)">1942</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Singapore" title="Fall of Singapore">Fall of Singapore</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Java_Sea" title="Battle of the Java Sea">Battle of the Java Sea</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/St_Nazaire_Raid" title="St Nazaire Raid">St Nazaire Raid</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Christmas_Island" title="Battle of Christmas Island">Battle of Christmas Island</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Coral_Sea" title="Battle of the Coral Sea">Battle of the Coral Sea</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Madagascar" title="Battle of Madagascar">Battle of Madagascar</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Zhejiang-Jiangxi_campaign" title="Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign">Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gazala" title="Battle of Gazala">Battle of Gazala</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Dutch_Harbor" title="Battle of Dutch Harbor">Battle of Dutch Harbor</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Midway" title="Battle of Midway">Battle of Midway</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Aleutian_Islands_campaign" title="Aleutian Islands campaign">Aleutian Islands campaign</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Kiska" title="Japanese occupation of Kiska">Kiska</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Attu" title="Japanese occupation of Attu"> Attu</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Case_Blue" title="Case Blue">Blue</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/First_Battle_of_El_Alamein" title="First Battle of El Alamein">First Battle of El Alamein</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad" title="Battle of Stalingrad">Battle of Stalingrad</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Kokoda_Track_campaign" title="Kokoda Track campaign">Kokoda Track campaign</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Rzhev,_summer_1942" title="Battle of Rzhev, summer 1942">Rzhev</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Dieppe_Raid" title="Dieppe Raid">Jubilee</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_El_Alamein" title="Second Battle of El Alamein">Second Battle of El Alamein</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Guadalcanal_campaign" title="Guadalcanal campaign">Guadalcanal campaign</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Torch" title="Operation Torch"><i>Torch</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Chinese_famine_of_1942%E2%80%931943" title="Chinese famine of 1942–1943">Chinese famine of 1942–1943</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">1943</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Black_May_(1943)" title="Black May (1943)">Black May</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tunisian_campaign" title="Tunisian campaign">Tunisian campaign</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_West_Hubei" title="Battle of West Hubei">Battle of West Hubei</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Attu" title="Battle of Attu">Battle of Attu</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_Gorky_in_World_War_II#June_1943" title="Bombing of Gorky in World War II">Bombing of Gorky</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk" title="Battle of Kursk">Battle of Kursk</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Allied_invasion_of_Sicily" title="Allied invasion of Sicily">Allied invasion of Sicily</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Smolensk_operation" title="Smolensk operation">Smolensk</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Solomon_Islands_campaign" title="Solomon Islands campaign">Solomon Islands campaign</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Cottage" title="Operation Cottage"><i>Cottage</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Dnieper" title="Battle of the Dnieper">Battle of the Dnieper</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Allied_invasion_of_Italy" title="Allied invasion of Italy">Allied invasion of Italy</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Armistice_of_Cassibile" title="Armistice of Cassibile">Armistice of Cassibile</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Burma_campaign" title="Burma campaign">Burma</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Northern_Burma_and_Western_Yunnan" title="Battle of Northern Burma and Western Yunnan">Northern Burma and Western Yunnan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Changde" title="Battle of Changde">Changde</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kiev_(1943)" title="Battle of Kiev (1943)">Second Battle of Kiev</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_and_Marshall_Islands_campaign" title="Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign">Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tarawa" title="Battle of Tarawa">Tarawa</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Makin" title="Battle of Makin">Makin</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943" title="Bengal famine of 1943">Bengal famine of 1943</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1944)" title="Timeline of World War II (1944)">1944</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Tempest" title="Operation Tempest"><i>Tempest</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Monte_Cassino" title="Battle of Monte Cassino">Monte Cassino</a> / <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Anzio" title="Battle of Anzio">Anzio</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Korsun%E2%80%93Cherkassy" title="Battle of Korsun–Cherkassy">Korsun–Cherkassy</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Narva_(1944)" title="Battle of Narva (1944)">Narva</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_U-Go" title="Operation U-Go"><i>U-Go</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Imphal" title="Battle of Imphal">Imphal</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Ichi-Go" title="Operation Ichi-Go"><i>Ichi-Go</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kohima" title="Battle of Kohima">Kohima</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Overlord" title="Operation Overlord"><i>Overlord</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Normandy_landings" title="Normandy landings"><i>Neptune</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mariana_and_Palau_Islands_campaign" title="Mariana and Palau Islands campaign">Mariana and Palau</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Bagration" title="Operation Bagration"><i>Bagration</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Lvov%E2%80%93Sandomierz_offensive" class="mw-redirect" title="Lvov–Sandomierz offensive">Western Ukraine</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Guam_(1944)" title="Battle of Guam (1944)">Second Battle of Guam</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tannenberg_Line" title="Battle of Tannenberg Line">Tannenberg Line</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Uprising" title="Warsaw Uprising">Warsaw Uprising</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Second_Jassy%E2%80%93Kishinev_offensive" title="Second Jassy–Kishinev offensive">Eastern Romania</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Liberation_of_Paris" title="Liberation of Paris">Liberation of Paris</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Dragoon" title="Operation Dragoon"><i>Dragoon</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Gothic_Line" title="Gothic Line">Gothic Line</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Belgrade_offensive" title="Belgrade offensive">Belgrade offensive</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_San_Marino" title="Battle of San Marino">Battle of San Marino</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Lapland_War" title="Lapland War">Lapland</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Market_Garden" title="Operation Market Garden"><i>Market Garden</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tallinn_offensive" title="Tallinn offensive">Estonia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Crossbow" title="Operation Crossbow"><i>Crossbow</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Combined_Bomber_Offensive" title="Combined Bomber Offensive"><i>Pointblank</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Vietnamese_famine_of_1944%E2%80%931945" title="Vietnamese famine of 1944–1945">Vietnamese famine of 1944–1945</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Philippines_campaign_(1944%E2%80%931945)" title="Philippines campaign (1944–1945)">Philippines (1944–1945)</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Leyte_Gulf" title="Battle of Leyte Gulf">Leyte</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Syrmian_Front" title="Syrmian Front">Syrmian Front</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Budapest_offensive" title="Budapest offensive">Hungary</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Budapest" title="Siege of Budapest">Budapest</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Burma_campaign_(1944%E2%80%931945)" title="Burma campaign (1944–1945)">Burma (1944–1945)</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge" title="Battle of the Bulge">Ardennes</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Bodenplatte" title="Operation Bodenplatte"><i>Bodenplatte</i></a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dutch_famine_of_1944%E2%80%931945" title="Dutch famine of 1944–1945">Dutch famine of 1944–1945</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1945%E2%80%931991)" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of World War II (1945–1991)">1945</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Vistula%E2%80%93Oder_offensive" title="Vistula–Oder offensive">Vistula–Oder</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Manila_(1945)" title="Battle of Manila (1945)">Battle of Manila</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Iwo_Jima" title="Battle of Iwo Jima">Battle of Iwo Jima</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_in_French_Indochina" title="Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina">Indochina</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Vienna_offensive" title="Vienna offensive">Vienna offensive</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Project_Hula" title="Project Hula">Project Hula</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Western_Allied_invasion_of_Germany" title="Western Allied invasion of Germany">Western invasion of Germany</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bratislava%E2%80%93Brno_offensive" title="Bratislava–Brno offensive">Bratislava–Brno offensive</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa" title="Battle of Okinawa">Battle of Okinawa</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Second_Guangxi_campaign" title="Second Guangxi campaign">Second Guangxi campaign</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_West_Hunan" title="Battle of West Hunan">West Hunan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Spring_1945_offensive_in_Italy" title="Spring 1945 offensive in Italy">Italy (Spring 1945)</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Berlin" title="Battle of Berlin">Battle of Berlin</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Prague_offensive" title="Prague offensive">Prague offensive</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/End_of_World_War_II_in_Europe" title="End of World War II in Europe">Surrender of Germany</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_Instrument_of_Surrender" title="German Instrument of Surrender">document</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span 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