WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO MAY 1943
Find out what all happened April to May 1943

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

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities. (8. April 1943)

World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland. (14. May 1943)

Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International). (15. May 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)

World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces. (13. May 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)

The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted. (25. April 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)

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

The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC. (17. May 1943)

Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation. (7. April 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 Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams. (17. May 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)

World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews. (19. April 1943)

Joseph Stalin disbands Comintern. (22. May 1943)

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

The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth. (13. April 1943)