WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 1943
Find out what all happened September to December 1943

The Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others. (6. September 1943)

World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 "Pfeil". (26. October 1943)

Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt. (19. November 1943)

World War II: The Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupying forces in Greece. (13. December 1943)

World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome. (10. September 1943)

World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae_Nadzab_Airport, near Lae in the Salamaua–Lae campaign. (5. September 1943)

World War II: The Battle of Arawe begins during the New Britain Campaign. (15. December 1943)

World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the Allied armistice with Italy. (8. September 1943)

World War II: in the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless. (22. October 1943)

World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny. (12. September 1943)

Prisoners at the Nazi German Sobibor extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans, killing eleven SS guards, and wounding many more. About 300 of the Sobibor Camp's 600 prisoners escape, and about 50 of these survive the end of the war. (14. October 1943)

World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea. (7. September 1943)

98 American POW's executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island. (5. October 1943)

World War II: The Russian city of Bryansk is liberated from Germans. (17. September 1943)

World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy concludes when Heinrich von Vietinghoff, commander of the German Tenth Army, orders his troops to withdraw from Salerno. (16. September 1943)

The Holocaust: Sobibor extermination camp is closed. (17. October 1943)

Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University. (19. October 1943)

Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair. (30. December 1943)

World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces. (23. November 1943)

World War II: Tehran Conference – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran, to discuss war strategy. (28. November 1943)