06/22/09

1943 – Nineteen-Forty-Three

 14 – January – The Casablanca Conference

 31 January – Hitler promotes von Paulus to field marshal in hopes that he would not surrender to the Russians at Stalingrad

 2 February – Last pockets of German resistance surrender in Stalingrad 

 3 – 5 March – Battle of Bismark Sea

 18 April – Admiral Yamamoto, who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor, is shot down and killed

 19 April – Massacre of Jewish people in the Warsaw ghetto

 12 May – General von Arnim surrenders the Afrikacorpse to the allies in Tunisia

 16 – 17 May – Operation Point blanck, the British dam buster raid on the Eder and Möhne dames, takes place

 30 June – Operation Cartwheel begins

 10 July – Operation Husky begins

 17 August – U.S. 3^rd Infantry Division under Patton enters Messina

 17 – 18 August – RAF bombs rocked factories at Peenemunde

 3 September – General Giuseppe Castellano signs secret surrender of Italy to the allies

 9 September – Operation Avalanche. The invasion of Italy

 10 September – The Germans occupy Rome

 13 October – Italy declares war on Germany

 20 November – Amphibious assault by Americans on Tarawa

 7 December – Eisenhower is given responsibility on the Mediterranean theatre