WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO OCTOBER 1943
Find out what all happened March to October 1943

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

World War II: Operation Gomorrah – The British bomb Hamburg, Germany causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians. (28. July 1943)

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

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

Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation. (7. April 1943)

The Detroit Race Riot breaks out and continues for three more days. (20. June 1943)

World War II: American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces. (11. May 1943)

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

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

Burma Railway (Burma-Thailand Railway) is completed. (17. October 1943)

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

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

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

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

Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through. Von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion. (21. March 1943)

World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government in exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility. (13. April 1943)

World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy begins on the same day that U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the Royal Navy battleship HMS Nelson off Malta. (3. September 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)

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

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