1943
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January
- FDR & Churchill hold Casablanca Conference
February 16 - Navy "E" Award presented to
Columbian Steel Tank |
| April
19 - S.S. begins "liquidation" of the Warsaw ghetto |
| June
11 - Nazis order destruction of Polish ghettos
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June
19 - Naval Transport Squadron 3 came to Naval Air
Station in Olathe
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| June
- 44,000 Victory Gardens planted in Kansas City |
June - Kansas City Civil Defense - focus on ration
boards, selling war bonds and Red Cross blood drives
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June
- Beach by beach, island by island by the end of June,
the Allies had secured the Solomon Seal.
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July
- first contingent of enlisted WAVES reported to Naval
Air Station in Olathe
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July 9-10
- Allies land on Sicily
July 22
- American forces take Palermo, Sicily
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| July
25-26 - Mussolini and the Fascists overthrown
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| September
8 - New Italian government announces Italy's surrender
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| September
23 - Fascist government re-established in Italy
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October
25 - The Japanese celebrate the completion of the
Burma-Thailand Railroad. Of the 46,000 Allied prisoners-of-war
who had been forced to build it, 16,000 had died of
starvation, brutality and disease. As well as 50,000
November
28 - Big Three Meet in Teheran FDR, Churchill, and
Stalin convene in Teheran to discuss the invasion of
Italy. It is the first meeting of all three.
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