WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO DECEMBER 1943
Find out what all happened March to 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: Allied forces capture the Italian city of Palermo. (22. July 1943)

In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American. (14. July 1943)

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

World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija. (11. September 1943)

World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins. (17. August 1943)

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

World War II: Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. (27. August 1943)

World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. The target is the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit. (5. April 1943)

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

The Holocaust: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis. (25. June 1943)

World War II: Start of the liquidation of the Ghettos in Minsk and Lida by the Nazis. (11. September 1943)

World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings. (24. July 1943)

World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the South West Pacific comes to an end. (4. March 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)

Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak. (11. July 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: Operation Mincemeat: The submarine HMS Seraph surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer. (30. April 1943)

World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 1, 1944 as the date for the Normandy landings ("D-Day"). It would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather. (19. May 1943)

The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps". (See Porajmos.) (15. November 1943)