WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO OCTOBER 1943
Find out what all happened August to October 1943

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

World War II: in the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless. (22. October 1943)

World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program. (17. August 1943)

World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny. (12. September 1943)

Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University. (19. October 1943)

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

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

The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned. (31. August 1943)

A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas, kills 55 people. (7. September 1943)

World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae_Nadzab_Airport, near Lae in the Salamaua–Lae campaign. (5. September 1943)

World War II: The Nazi puppet state the Italian Social Republic is founded. (23. September 1943)

The Holocaust: Sobibor extermination camp is closed. (17. October 1943)

Prisoners at the Nazi German Sobibor extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans, killing eleven SS guards, and wounding many more. About 300 of the Sobibor Camp's 600 prisoners escape, and about 50 of these survive the end of the war. (14. October 1943)

The Provisional Government of Free India is formally declared by Subhas Chandra Bose. (21. October 1943)

World War II: An F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception by a USN or USMC aircraft. (31. October 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)

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

World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the Allied armistice with Italy. (8. September 1943)

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

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