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 | 1943-05-29 | Wuppertal Bombed | The RAF bomb Wuppertal, dropping 1,900 tons of explosives. | Read about 'Wuppertal Bombed' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Wuppertal Bombed' | |
| 1943-05-16 | 1943-05-17 | Dambuster Raids | Operation Chastise was the official name for attacks carried out by RAF 617 Squadron on German dams using a specially developed "bouncing bomb". The Mohne and Eder dams were breached, causing catastrophic flooding of the Ruhr valley. | Read about 'Dambuster Raids' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Dambuster Raids' |
| 1943-05-16 | Rome Bombed | Allied planes bomb Rome for the first time. Bombing of Rome was controversial because of the importance of catholics in the US armed forces. | Read about 'Rome Bombed' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Rome Bombed' | |
| 1943-05-14 | AHS Centaur Sunk | Australian Hospital Ship Centaur is sunk by a Japanese submarine I-177. Of the 332 civilian crew and medical personal, 268 are killed. | Read about 'AHS Centaur Sunk' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'AHS Centaur Sunk' | |
| 1943-05-03 | Operation Corkscrew | The Royal Navy began bombing Pantelleria in preparation for it's capture. The radar installations and airfields on the island presented a real threat to the following invasion of Sicily. | Read about 'Operation Corkscrew' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Operation Corkscrew' | |
| 1943-04-30 | Operation Mincemeat | The RN submarine Seraph deposits a corpse containing misleading documents that helped to convince the German high command that the Allies planned to invade Greece and Sardinia in 1943 instead of Sicily, the actual objective. | Read about 'Operation Mincemeat' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Operation Mincemeat' | |
| 1943-04-19 | 1943-05-16 | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | The Jewish resistance which rose to try and prevent the deportation of the remaining Jews in the Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka extermination camp. The poorly armed and supplied resistance was crushed by German troops. | Read about 'Warsaw Ghetto Uprising' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Warsaw Ghetto Uprising' |
| 1943-04-07 | Terebovl Massacre | The 1100 Jewish residents of Terebovl, Ukraine are forced to undress to their underwear, marched to the nearby village of Plebanivka and shot. | Read about 'Terebovl Massacre' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Terebovl Massacre' | |
| 1943-03-29 | Gabes captured | The 2nd New Zealand division captures Gabes in Tunisia. "When we were about ten yards away we had reached the top of the slit trench and we killed any of the survivors" | Read about 'Gabes captured' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Gabes captured' | |
 | 1943-03-27 | Sinking of HMS Dasher | Sinking of the HMS Dasher as the result of an unexplained internal explosion. | Read about 'Sinking of HMS Dasher' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Sinking of HMS Dasher' |
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