WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO NOVEMBER 1943
Find out what all happened August to November 1943

World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 "Pfeil". (26. October 1943)

World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the Allied armistice with Italy. (8. September 1943)

World War II: Kharkov is liberated as a result of the Battle of Kursk. (23. August 1943)

The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe. (13. September 1943)

World War II: The second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), held to determine the post-war ordering of the country, concludes in Jajce in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina. (29. November 1943)

Lebanon gains independence from France. (22. November 1943)

World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija. (11. September 1943)

The Provisional Government of Free India is formally declared by Subhas Chandra Bose. (21. October 1943)

World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny. (12. September 1943)

The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned. (31. August 1943)

World War II: Bombing of the Vatican. (5. November 1943)

World War II: the Soviet Red Army recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city's ancient buildings. (6. November 1943)

World War II: the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. President, saves all but two of his crew. (2. August 1943)

World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway. (16. November 1943)

Double Tenth Incident in Japanese-controlled Singapore (10. October 1943)

The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers in aerial combat during the second mass-daylight air raid on the Schweinfurt ball-bearing factories in western Nazi Germany. (14. October 1943)

Prisoners at the Nazi German Sobibor extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans, killing eleven SS guards, and wounding many more. About 300 of the Sobibor Camp's 600 prisoners escape, and about 50 of these survive the end of the war. (14. October 1943)

World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men. (24. November 1943)

World War II: Tehran Conference – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran, to discuss war strategy. (28. November 1943)

José P. Laurel takes the oath of office as President of the Philippines (Second Philippine Republic). (14. October 1943)