World War II

[noreply66]

12/09/1942.....Australian and U.S. Army forces under MacArthur fight back the Japanese at Gona in New Guinea.

[noreply66]

01/02/1943.....Australian and U.S. forces under MacArthur fight back the Japanese at Buna in New Guinea

[noreply66]

01/14/1943...........Casablanca Conference begins. Allies agree that Germany must surrender unconditionally and begin planning invasion of Sicily.

[noreply66]

01/31/1943.....Over 90,000 German troops at Stalingrad surrender to the Soviets, it is a significant turning point in the war against Germany.

[noreply66]

02/01/1943.....The all-Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team is activated. It became one of the war's most decorated units.

[noreply66]

02/08/1943.....U.S. troops complete the capture of Guadalcanal from the Japanese.

[noreply66]

04/19/1943.....The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising after German troops attempt to deport the ghetto's last surviving Jews. About 750 Jews fought back the Germans for almost a month.

[noreply66]

05/11/1943.....The Trident Conference begins. Roosevelt and Churchill delay the Allied invasion of France and in its place plan the Allied invasion of Italy. In Alaska , U. S. troops land on Attu in the Aleutian islands to retake it from the Japanese.

[noreply66]

05/12/1943.....Axis forces in North Africa Surrender.

[noreply66]

05/16/1943.....German troops crush the last resistance of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and kills thousands of Jews. The rest are sent to the Treblinka concentration camp to die.

[noreply66]

07/10/1943.....Over 160,000 Allied troops land in Sicily Beginning Operation Husky.

[noreply66]

07/24/1943.....The Allies begin bombing Hamburg

[noreply66]

07/25/1943.....Benito Mussolini's fascist government is overthrown in Italy. The new Italian government begins peace talks.

[noreply66]

08/11/1943.....The Quebec Conference between the U.S. and Britain begins.

[noreply66]

08/15/1943.....U.S. troops retake Kiska island in the Aleutians.

[noreply66]

08/17/1943.....Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, is successfully concluded when American troops take Messina.

[noreply66]

09/03/1943.....British troops land on mainland Italy, beginning the Allied campaign in Italy. Americans troops land six days later

[noreply66]

09/10/1943......German troops occupy Rome. Mussolini soon declares himself the head of a new fascist Italian government in German occupied northern Italy.

[noreply66]

10/13/1943.....Italy declares war on Germany

[noreply66]

11/01/1943......U.S. Marines land on Bouganville island in the Solomons.