WHAT ALL HAPPENED NOVEMBER TO DECEMBER 1943
Find out what all happened November to December 1943

World War II: The second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), held to determine the post-war ordering of the country, concludes in Jajce in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina. (29. November 1943)

World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin. (23. November 1943)

Lebanon gains independence from France. (22. November 1943)

World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower is named Supreme Allied Commander for the Normandy Invasion. (24. December 1943)

World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men. (24. November 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: Battle of Berlin – 440 Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew. (18. November 1943)

World War II: HMT Rohna is sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria. (26. November 1943)

World War II: After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the Battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona. (28. December 1943)

World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile. (4. December 1943)

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

World War II: the Soviet Red Army recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city's ancient buildings. (6. November 1943)

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

World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins – United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns. (20. November 1943)

World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul. (1. November 1943)

World War II: Cairo Conference – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan. (22. November 1943)

World War II: Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina is re-established at the State Anti-Fascist Council for the People's Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. (25. November 1943)

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

World War II: A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including the American SS John Harvey, which is carrying a stockpile of World War I-era mustard gas. (2. December 1943)

World War II: U.S. Army Air Force begins attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow. (5. December 1943)