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    1943 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in August 1943: Operation Tidal...
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    prevent a disaster.[clarification needed] The Donbas operation began on 13 August 1943 with the offensive of the right wing of the Southwestern Front. These...
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  • The list of shipwrecks in August 1943 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during August 1943. "Bagé". Uboat. Retrieved 8 March...
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    The Bengal famine of 1943 was a famine in the Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and eastern India) during World War...
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    was Operation Mincemeat. Husky began on the night of 9–10 July 1943 and ended on 17 August. Strategically, Husky achieved the goals set out for it by Allied...
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  • 1943 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1943. 1943 (MCMXLIII)...
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    Black May refers to a period (May 1943) in the Battle of the Atlantic campaign during World War II, when the German U-boat arm (U-Bootwaffe) suffered high...
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    German scientific research centre at Peenemünde on the night of 17/18 August 1943. Group Captain John Searby, commanding officer of No. 83 Squadron RAF...
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    A partial lunar eclipse took place on Sunday, August 15, 1943. The Moon was strikingly shadowed in this deep partial eclipse which lasted 2 hours and...
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    based in Libya on nine oil refineries around Ploiești, Romania, on 1 August 1943, during World War II. It was a strategic bombing mission and part of...
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    Costantino Giorgio Paolo Elena Maria Fiorenzo Zvonimir di Savoia; 27 September 1943 – 1 June 2021) was a claimant to the headship of the House of Savoy, the...
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  • The year 1943 in film featured various significant events for the film industry. The top ten 1943 released films by box office gross in North America are...
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    and commander of U-181 Swords (15 April 1943) as Kapitänleutnant and commander of U-181 Diamonds (9 August 1943) as Korvettenkapitän and commander of U-181...
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    Vijayakumar (Tamil actor) (category 1943 births)
    Panchaksharam Rangasamy Pillai (born 29 August 1943), known professionally as Vijayakumar, is an Indian actor who works in Tamil cinema. He started his...
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    Bronze (26 March 1943) in Silver (10 June 1943) in Gold (23 August 1943) Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (7 April 1943) 1st Class (11 August 1943) Honor Goblet...
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    March 1943 Battle of Attu: May 1943 Operation Vengeance: April 1943 Solomon Islands Campaign, June–November 1943 New Georgia Campaign, June–August 1943 Battle...
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    Julia Foster (category 1943 births)
    Julia Foster (born 2 August 1943) is an English stage, screen, and television actress. Foster was born in Lewes, Sussex. She was educated at a convent...
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    Denmark in World War II (category Articles needing additional references from August 2023)
    government and king functioned in a relatively normal manner until 29 August 1943, when Germany placed Denmark under direct military occupation, which...
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    E-boat (section 1943 orders)
    of 10. All 7 were transferred to the Romania in August 1943, but seized by the USSR on 5 September 1943. Further small ex-Italian Navy boats of the Baglietto...
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  • 1943 however, RONA began to suffer many desertions, due to Russia's improved position against Germany, and the Lokot Autonomy was evacuated by August...
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  • 1941 - 26 July 1943) General der Infanterie Helge Auleb (26 July - 15 August 1943) General der Gebirgstruppe Rudolf Konrad (15 August 1943 - 15 February...
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    Steelhead held her shakedown off Long Island in December 1942 and January 1943. In February, she sailed for the Pacific and arrived at Pearl Harbor on 8...
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    She departed Algiers on 5 August 1943 and returned in convoy to Hampton Roads, where the convoy arrived safely on 26 August 1943 after a passage in which...
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    Wehrmacht began a withdrawal from Orel (retaken by the Red Army on 5 August 1943), falling back to the Hagen line in front of Bryansk. To the south, the...
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    and the ejection of the Japanese back beyond the Chindwin River. In August 1943, the Allies created South East Asia Command (SEAC), a new combined command...
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    class was a class of 32 destroyers of the Royal Navy that were launched from 1943 to 1945. The class was built in four flotillas of 8 vessels, the "Ca", "Ch"...
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    1943: U-181 sank the freighter Umvuma east of Madagascar. 12 August 1943: U-181 sank the freighter Clan Macarthur south of Madagascar. 17 August 1943:...
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    returned to Brisbane for refit on 2 August 1943. Guardfish left Brisbane for her sixth war patrol on 24 August 1943, landing a reconnoitering party on...
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    Hitler cabinet (category Articles needing additional references from August 2022)
    January 1943: Lammers appointed President of the Reich Cabinet (Cabinet President in Hitler's absence). January 1943: Schacht departs the Cabinet. August 1943:...
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    – March 1943) SS-Standartenführer Horst Böhme (12 March–28 August 1943) SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Erich Ehrlinger (28 August 1943 – April 1944)...
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