1943

1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1943rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 943rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 43rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1940s decade.

Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.

A low level attack on a Japanese ship during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea
Jewish prisoners being deported from the Kraków Ghetto
This photograph, from the Stroop Report , shows captured fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising .
The Möhne Dam breached following Operation Chastise , carried out by the "Dambusters" of the RAF .
The U.S. Liberty ship SS Robert Rowan explodes during the Allied invasion of Sicily , July 11, 1943.
The bombing of Hamburg during 1943.
Wladyslaw Sikorski, Polish military and political leader of the Polish government in exile during World War 2
Mussolini
The first Lebanese flag hand drawn and signed by the deputies of the Lebanese parliament, November 11, 1943. The French Mandate ends and Lebanon gains independence in November 1943.
Metropolitan Gurie Grosu