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 | 1943-04-01 | 1943-04-19 | Operation I-Go | Admiral Yamamoto conceives a massive aerial counter attack designed to sink allied shipping and destroy allied air power in the Solomons and New Guinea. It was motived largely as a response to losses at Guadalcanal, New Guinea and the Bismarck Sea. | Read about 'Operation I-Go' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Operation I-Go' |
| 1943-03-27 | Komandorski Islands | An outnumbered U.S. cruiser force prevents a Japanese fleet from reaching their Aleutian garrisons by surface, leaving only submarines for resupply runs. This engagement was one of the few fought exclusively between surface ships. | Read about 'Komandorski Islands' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Komandorski Islands' | |
| 1943-03-02 | 1943-03-04 | Bismarck Sea Battle | US and Australian air force attack a Japanese convoy carrying troops bound for Lae, New Guinea. Most of the convoy is sunk (8 transports, 4 destroyers) and thousands of Japanese troops are killed. | Read about 'Bismarck Sea Battle' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Bismarck Sea Battle' |
| 1943-02-19 | 1943-02-25 | Kasserine Pass | Significant as the first large-scale meeting of American and German forces in World War II, the untested and poorly-led American troops suffered heavy casualties and were pushed back over 80 km from their positions west of Faid Pass. | Read about 'Kasserine Pass' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Kasserine Pass' |
| 1943-02-14 | 1943-02-17 | Sidi Bou Zid | US troops from the 1st Armoured Division CCA (Combat Command A), CCB and CCC is forced to retreat after losing losing 46 medium tanks, 130 vehicles and 9 self-propelled guns. | Read about 'Sidi Bou Zid' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Sidi Bou Zid' |
| 1943-01-29 | 1943-01-30 | Rennell Island | Japanese air attacks on a U.S. task force sink a heavy cruiser and damage a destoryer. The rest of the U.S. task force was forced to retreat from the southern Solomons area. As a result Japanese forces were able to safely evacuate Guadalcanal. | Read about 'Rennell Island' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Rennell Island' |
| 1943-01-14 | 1943-02-07 | Operation Ke | The largely successful withdrawal of Japanese forces from Guadalcanal at the conclusion of the Guadalcanal Campaign. 10,652 men were evactuated from Guadalcanal at a cost of one destroyer sunk and three damaged. | Read about 'Operation Ke' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Operation Ke' |
| 1943-01-14 | 1943-01-24 | Casablanca | A conference to plan the Allied European strategy. It was decided during the conference was that there would be no "cross channel invasion" in 1943. First an invasion into Sicily and then Italy would take place. | Read about 'Casablanca' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Casablanca' |
| 1942-12-15 | 1943-01-23 | Battle of the Gifu | US soldiers and marines, assisted by native Solomon Islanders, attacked Japanese Army forces defending well-fortified and entrenched positions on several hills and ridges. | Read about 'Battle of the Gifu' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Battle of the Gifu' |
| 1942-12-02 | Enrico Fermi's Reactor | A team led by Enrico Fermi, for whom Fermilab is named, initiated the first artificial self sustaining nuclear chain reaction in an experimental nuclear reactor named Chicago Pile-1. | Read about 'Enrico Fermi's Reactor' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Enrico Fermi's Reactor' |
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