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 | 1943-08-25 | Bairoko Harbor Falls | US Marines force Japanese troops to abandon their positions around Bairoko Harbour. | Read about 'Bairoko Harbor Falls' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Bairoko Harbor Falls' | |
| 1943-08-02 | Treblinka Revolt | Prisoners seized small arms, sprayed kerosene on all the buildings and set them ablaze. A number of guards were killed but many more prisoners perished. Of 1,500 prisoners, about 600 managed to escape the camp, but only 40 are known to have survived.. | Read about 'Treblinka Revolt' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Treblinka Revolt' | |
| 1943-07-23 | Ascianghi Sunk | The italian submarine Ascianghi is sunk after she (or possibly the German sub U-407) torpedoes the HMS Newfoundland. She is forced to surface by depth charges and then sunk by shell fire. | Read about 'Ascianghi Sunk' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Ascianghi Sunk' | |
| 1943-07-22 | Palermo | US troops from Patton's provisional corps enter Palermo during the invasion of Sicily. | Read about 'Palermo' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Palermo' | |
| 1943-07-22 | 1943-08-04 | Munda Point | US troops successfully capture the airfield at Munda Point. Japanese troops subsequently abandon New Georgia entirely. The airfield will prove vital in the following campaign to isolate the major Japanese base at Rabaul. | Read about 'Munda Point' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Munda Point' |
| 1943-07-20 | Bairoko | US Marine Raiders, supported by two United States Army infantry battalions, attacked a Japanese garrison guarding the port of Bairoko on the Dragons Peninsula on New Georgia. The day long assault on the well entrenched defenders failed. | Read about 'Bairoko' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Bairoko' | |
| 1943-07-12 | Prokhorovka | Wehrmacht's fourth panzer army clashed with the Soviet 5th Guards Tank Army in one of the largest tank battles in history. German force included 456 tanks and 137 assault guns against some 850 soviet tanks. | Read about 'Prokhorovka' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Prokhorovka' | |
| 1943-07-09 | 1943-08-17 | Operation Husky | The largest amphibious operation of the war in terms of men landed on the beaches and of frontage. Strategically, Husky achieved the goals set out for it by Allied planners. The Allies drove Axis air and naval forces from the island | Read about 'Operation Husky' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Operation Husky' |
| 1943-07-04 | 1943-08-23 | Kursk | Soviet intelligence of German intentions contributed to the failure of German armoured spearheads to encircle the Soviet Kursk salient. | Read about 'Kursk' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Kursk' |
| 1943-06-12 | Berezhany Ghetto | At dawn 1,180 Jews are led to the city's Jewish cemetery in Okopysko and shot. A single survivor, Menachem Katz, escaped and described the massacre. | Read about 'Berezhany Ghetto' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Berezhany Ghetto' |
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