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Calendar and Summary for May 1943 |
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Summary of Significant Events for May 1943 |
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Anthracite and bituminous coal mines were placed under government
control to prevent strikes in the United States.
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler decided to postpone the summer
offensive at Kursk until more of the new Tiger and Panther tanks were
available.
In the Caucasus, the Red Army advanced further into the Kuban
Peninsula against the German 17th Army.
British forces recaptured Djebel Bou Aoukaz in Tunisia and
secured the left flank for the final drive on Tunis.
On May 5 German U-boats sink 11 Allied merchant ships of Convoy
ONS-5 in the north Atlantic. This day is considered the turning point of
the Battle of the Atlantic as U-boats began to be sunk in ever larger
numbers.
The British First Army captured Tunis, Tunisia.
The Japanese occupied Buthidaung in Burma as they forced the
British to withdraw.
A Joint Strategic Plan creating three Pacific commands was
approved at Cairo.
The Warsaw Uprising ended.
British intelligence agents managed to steal a German Ju-88 night
fighter armed with the new Liechtenstein BC radar set and flew it to
Scotland.
Hitler approved Operation Citadel, the attack on the Kursk
salient.
The Trident Conference between the U.S. and Britain was held in
Washington, D.C.
The U.S. 7th Division landed on Japanese occupied Attu Island.
Italian Field Marshal Giovanni Messe ordered the remaining German
and Italian troops in Tunisia to surrender.
Operation Mincemeat, the deception operation for the invasion of
Sicily, bore fruit as the Germans reinforced their forces in Greece
against a fictitious upcoming invasion.
Operation Gypsy Baron started as six German divisions went on the
offensive against partisan resistance fighters in the Bryansk area of
the Soviet Union.
SS-Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop reported to his commanders that
the Warsaw Ghetto "is no longer in existence."
The Germans launched Operation Schwarz, their fifth major
offensive against Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia.
A Japanese offensive began along the Yangtze River with the goal
of capturing the Chinese capital of Chunking.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill set a date for a cross-Channel invasion of Normandy,
in northern France, for May 1, 1944.
Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels announced that
Berlin was "Judenrien" (free of Jews.)
Josef Mengele became the Chief Medical Officer at the Auschwitz
concentration camp.
White workers rioted when the Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding
Company in Mobile, Alabama complied with federal regulations and gave
twelve African-Americans skilled positions in the shipyards.
The V-1 and V-2 were tested at Peenemünde in the presence of high
ranking German ministers and military officers.
Chinese troops defending Ichang stopped the Japanese advance
along the Yangtze River.
Churchill called a meeting in Algiers between British and
American senior officers hoping to convince U.S. General of the Army
George C. Marshall and General Dwight D. Eisenhower to concentrate on
the Mediterranean and drop the invasion of Western Europe.
Japanese forces on Attu launched a final desperate Banzai attack
that was quickly and easily destroyed.
The Free French organized the French Committee of National
Liberation in Algiers which included General Charles De Gaulle and
General Henri Giraud as co-presidents.
45 ships (237,182 tons) were sunk and 4 ships (29,702 tons) were
damaged by U-boats during May 1943. |
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Events occurring in May 1943 with no
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