WHAT HAPPENED IN 1943.
Look what happened the 1943.

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

World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór. (18. September 1943)

World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews. (18. September 1943)

World War II: The Nazi puppet state the Italian Social Republic is founded. (23. September 1943)

World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers. (1. October 1943)

World War II: U.S. captures Solomon Islands. (4. October 1943)

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

Double Tenth Incident in Japanese-controlled Singapore (10. October 1943)

World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany. (13. October 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)

The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers in aerial combat during the second mass-daylight air raid on the Schweinfurt ball-bearing factories in western Nazi Germany. (14. October 1943)

José P. Laurel takes the oath of office as President of the Philippines (Second Philippine Republic). (14. October 1943)

Burma Railway (Burma-Thailand Railway) is completed. (17. October 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)

The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Suda Bay, Crete, and sunk. 2,098 Italian prisoners of war drown with it. (20. October 1943)

The Provisional Government of Free India is formally declared by Subhas Chandra Bose. (21. October 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)

The Provisional Government of Free India formally declared war on Britain and the United States of America. (24. October 1943)

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

   
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