WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO MARCH 1943
Find out what all happened February to March 1943

Greek Resistance: The United Panhellenic Organization of Youth is founded is Greece. (23. February 1943)

World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands – In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska. (27. March 1943)

The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków. (13. March 1943)

A fire breaks out at St. Joseph's Orphanage, County Cavan, Ireland, killing 36 people (35 of whom are children). (23. February 1943)

The USAT Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survived. The Chapel of the Four Chaplains, dedicated by President Harry Truman, is one of many memorials established to commemorate the Four Chaplains story. (3. February 1943)

World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins. (19. February 1943)

World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany. (22. February 1943)

World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal. (9. February 1943)

World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov – the Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting. (15. March 1943)

World War II: The Kraków Ghetto is "liquidated". (14. March 1943)

The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms. (20. February 1943)

World War II: Tunisia Campaign – General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia. (14. February 1943)

The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement. (18. February 1943)

World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the South West Pacific comes to an end. (4. March 1943)

World War II: In London, England, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station. (3. March 1943)

The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men. (27. February 1943)

World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor. (10. February 1943)

Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard. (19. March 1943)

The Parícutin volcano begins to form in Parícutin, Mexico. (20. February 1943)

World War II: Red Army troops re-enter Kharkov. (16. February 1943)