WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO NOVEMBER 1943
Find out what all happened September to November 1943

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

World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway. (16. November 1943)

98 American POW's executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island. (5. October 1943)

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

Lebanon gains independence from France. (22. November 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 Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy. (9. September 1943)

World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany. (13. October 1943)

World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea. (7. September 1943)

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

World War II: 500 aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshafen harbor in Germany. (3. November 1943)

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

World War II: An F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception by a USN or USMC aircraft. (31. October 1943)

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

World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin. (23. November 1943)

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

Double Tenth Incident in Japanese-controlled Singapore (10. October 1943)

World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy concludes when Heinrich von Vietinghoff, commander of the German Tenth Army, orders his troops to withdraw from Salerno. (16. September 1943)

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

The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe. (13. September 1943)

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