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 | 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' | |
| 1943-07-25 | Mussolini removed | On the previous day The Grand Council of Fascism votes to oust Benito Mussolini as prime minister of Italy. Mussolini ignores the vote of no confidence, is summoned by King Victor Emmanuel III and then arrested. | Read about 'Mussolini removed' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Mussolini removed' | |
| 1943-07-24 | 1943-08-03 | Operation Gomorrah | A series of day and night bombing raids by the US 8th Air Force and RAF bomber command. The concentrated bombing of the Hamburg town center created firestorms that resulted in the death of at least 50,000 people. | Read about 'Operation Gomorrah' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Operation Gomorrah' |
| 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' | |
| 1943-07-20 | 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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