Timeline of World War 2 from 13 May 1943
Key events of the Second World War, 1939-1945, starting when German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa
13 May 1943:
German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa
Six days after the fall of Tunis and Bizerte, the last Axis resistance in Africa ended with the surr...
16 May 1943:
Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto ends
The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of all the Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War...
16 May 1943:
British air raid on the Ruhr
The Battle of the Ruhr of 1943 was a 5-month long campaign of strategic bombing during the Second Wo...
22 May 1943:
Germany suspends U-boat operations in the North Atlantic
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, running fro...
11 Jun 1943:
Heinrich Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland
The plight of Jews in war-torn Poland can be divided into stages defined by the existence of the ghe...
5 Jul 1943:
Germans begin their last offensive against Kursk
The Battle of Kursk was a Second World War engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Easter...
9 Jul 1943:
Allies land in Sicily
The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II, in w...
19 Jul 1943:
Allies bomb Rome
On July 19, 1943, Rome was bombed again, more heavily, by 521 Allied planes, with three targets, cau...
22 Jul 1943:
Americans capture Palermo, Sicily
The 15th Panzer Grenadier Division managed to join the other German formations in the east of the is...
24 Jul 1943:
British bombing raid on Hamburg
The Allied bombing of Hamburg during World War II included numerous strategic bombing missions and d...
25 Jul 1943:
Mussolini is arrested and the Italian Fascist government falls
Earlier in April 1943, Mussolini had begged Hitler to make a separate peace with Stalin and send Ger...
25 Jul 1943:
Pietro Badoglio takes over Italian government and negotiates with Allies
adoglio was Chief of Staff from 1925 to 1940, an enormous length of time, and it was he who had the ...
27 Jul 1943:
Allied air raid causes a firestorm in Hamburg
The Allied bombing of Hamburg during World War II included numerous strategic bombing missions and d...
12 Aug 1943:
Germans evacuate Sicily
The German plan was thorough, with clear lines of command imposing strict discipline on the operatio...
17 Aug 1943:
American daylight air raids on Regensburg and Schweinfurt in Germany
The Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission was an air combat battle in World War II. A strategic bombing att...
17 Aug 1943:
Allies reach Messina, Sicily
On 3 August, XIII Corps exploited the disorganisation caused by the threat to Adrano and resumed the...
23 Aug 1943:
Soviet troops recapture Kharkov
By 0200 on 23 August 1943, elements of the 183rd Rifle Division pushed into the city centre, reached...
8 Sep 1943:
Italians surrender to Allies
The Armistice of Cassibile[1] was an armistice signed on 3 September 1943 by Walter Bedell Smith and...
9 Sep 1943:
Allied landings at Salerno and Taranto
The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place on ...
11 Sep 1943:
Germans occupy Rome
Soon after World War I, Rome witnessed the rise of Italian Fascism, led by Benito Mussolini, who mar...
12 Sep 1943:
Germans rescue Mussolini
Only two months after Mussolini had been dismissed and arrested, he was rescued from his prison at t...
23 Sep 1943:
Mussolini re-establishes a Fascist government
The Italian Social Republic was a state with limited recognition that was created during the later ...
1 Oct 1943:
Allies enter Naples, Italy
Naples was the most-bombed Italian city during World War II. Though Neapolitans did not rebel under ...
13 Oct 1943:
Italy declares war on Germany
The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.||https://en.wikiped...
13 Oct 1943:
Second American air raid on Schweinfurt
The second Schweinfurt raid was a World War II air battle that took place October 14, 1943, over Ger...
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Timeline of World War 2 from 13 May 1943
Key events of the Second World War, 1939-1945, starting when German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa