WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO JUNE 1943
Find out what all happened February to June 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: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces. (22. March 1943)

World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island. (18. April 1943)

The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp. (24. May 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)

Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends. (16. May 1943)

World War II: Insertion of Operation Gunnerside, Norway. (16. February 1943)

World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams. (17. May 1943)

American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies. (20. February 1943)

Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka where they are shot dead and buried in ditches. (7. April 1943)

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

First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom. (5. March 1943)

The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin. (27. February 1943)

The Detroit Race Riot breaks out and continues for three more days. (20. June 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: General Dwight D. Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe. (11. February 1943)

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

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

In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots. (3. June 1943)