WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO AUGUST 1943
Find out what all happened June to August 1943

World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio. (25. July 1943)

World War II: Kharkov is liberated as a result of the Battle of Kursk. (23. August 1943)

Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka. (2. August 1943)

World War II: Operation Husky – Allied forces perform an amphibious invasion of Sicily. (9. July 1943)

Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since then, no city in Japan has had the name "Tokyo" (present-day Tokyo is not officially a city). (1. July 1943)

World War II: German forces begin a massive offensive against the Soviet Union at the Battle of Kursk. Also known as Operation Citadel (5. July 1943)

World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943). (5. July 1943)

World War II: Allied forces capture the Italian city of Palermo. (22. July 1943)

World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission. (17. August 1943)

In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American. (14. July 1943)

World War II: the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. President, saves all but two of his crew. (2. August 1943)

World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily – German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily. (11. July 1943)

A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo. (4. June 1943)

World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins. (17. August 1943)

The Holocaust: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis. (25. June 1943)

German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government. (29. August 1943)

World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program. (17. August 1943)

World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily. (17. August 1943)

World War II: in Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation starts. (28. August 1943)

World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle, begins in Prokhorovka village. (4. July 1943)