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| 02/01/1943 |
The allies finally take
Buna. |
| 04/01/1943 |
The Japanese Navy orders the evacuation
of Guadalcanal by the end of the month. |
| 15/01/1943 |
US forces launch their final offensive
on Guadalcanal. |
| 18/01/1943 |
Australian troops capture Cape Killerton
and Wye Point in Papua, New Guinea. |
| 22/01/1943 |
Japanese forces are routed at Sanananda,
putting paid to their resistance in Papua. On Guadalcanal,
the Americans make important gains in the battle round Henderson
field. |
| 24/01/1943 |
Fighting in Papua is officially reported
as over. |
| 29/01/1943 |
Japanese aircraft attack Wau airfield. |
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| 06/02/1943 |
The Americans outflank the retreating
Japanese on Guadalcanal. |
| 08/02/1943 |
Japanese complete their
evacuation of Guadalcanal. |
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| 31/03/1943 |
The Australian 9th Division
march's through Melbourne watched by more than half a million
people. |
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| 18/04/1943 |
US fighter aircraft in
planned raid, intercept Admiral Yamamoto’s plane over
Bougainville and shoot its down, killing the Admiral. |
| 20/04/1943 |
The Americans announce that their
airmen captured in the ‘Doolittle Raid’ on Tokyo
were beheaded by Japanese. |
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| 29/06/1943 |
US Marines land on Nassau
beach near Lae in New Guinea during Operation 'Cartwheel'. |
| 30/06/1943 |
Operation 'Cartwheel'
continues with the occupation of Rendova, north west of Guadalcanal.
The Trobriand and Woodlark islands between Solomon's and New
Guinea are also occupied. |
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| 02/07/1943 |
US troops land on New
Georgia in the Solomon's. |
| 03/07/1943 |
US troops from Nassau Beach link up
with the Australians who are under heavy attack at Mubo in
New Guinea. Operation 'Cartwheel' continues with further advances
in the Solomon's. |
| 28/07/1943 |
The Japanese garrison of 6,000 troops
are secretly evacuated from Kiska in the Aleutians. |
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| 04/08/1943 |
U.S. bombers drop 153
tons of bombs on Kiska, Aleutian Islands, a new one-day record. |
| 05/08/1943 |
US forces capture Munda airfield in
New Georgia. |
| 15/08/1943 |
34,436 US and Canadian troops land
on Kiska to find the island evacuated. |
| 17/08/1943 |
Heavy US air attacks on the Japanese
airfields at Wewak on the North coast of New Guinea, with 215
Japanese planes destroyed for loss of just six USAAF aircraft. |
| 21/08/1943 |
The Labour Party wins the Australian
elections. |
| 25/08/1943 |
US forces complete the
capture of New Georgia in the Pacific. Japanese fall back to
Francisco River where it runs into Bayern Bay on New Guinea
while being pursued by Australian and American troops. |
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| 04/09/1943 |
The Australians 9th Division
lands in force to the East of Lae on North coast of New Guinea. |
| 05/09/1943 |
US paratroops land behind the Japanese
positions at Lae, surrounding about 20,000 Japanese troops. |
| 07/09/1943 |
Japanese aircraft bomb Nanumea, Ellice
Island. |
| 15/09/1943 |
The Australian 7th and 9th Divisions
capture Lae in New Guinea after very heavy fighting. |
| 22/09/1943 |
Troops of the 9th Australian Division
land near Finschhafen in New Guinea. |
| 27/09/1943 |
The first of two heavy air raids against
Wewak are conducted by the 5th AAF, with 64 Japanese planes
and seven ships destroyed. |
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| 01/10/1943 |
The Australian Government
releases men from the army and munitions industry for reallocation
within the Australian war effort. |
| 02/10/1943 |
The Australians 9th Division captures
Finschhafen on New Guinea. |
| 12/10/1943 |
350 allied bombers hit the Japanese
base at Rabaul in New Britain. The damage reported includes
120 planes destroyed. |
| 13/10/1943 |
The whole of the New Georgia group
of islands in the Solomon's are reported in allied hands. |
| 14/10/1943 |
Jose P. Laurel, a distinguished pre-war
Filipino statesman, takes office as “president” of
the Philippines after being elected by a Japanese puppet “National
Assembly” on Sept. 25. Surviving two assassination attempts
by Filipino guerillas, Laurel’s government enjoyed little
popularity. A general amnesty after the war spared him a treason
trial. |
| 17/10/1943 |
The US and Japan exchange 3,000 civilian
prisoners in Goa. |
| 26/10/1943 |
A feint landing on Choisseul in the
Solomon's is conducted by US forces. Meanwhile Treasury Island
is occupied. |
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| 01/11/1943 |
The US 3rd Marine Division
lands at Empress Augusta Bay on Bougainville Island in the
Solomon's. |
| 03/11/1943 |
Heavy USAAF air attacks begin on Rabaul. |
| 05/11/1943 |
China's Wang Chingwei, Thailand's
Wan Waithayakon, Manchukuo's Chang Chinghui, Burma's Adipadi
Ba Maw, India's Subhas Chandra Bose, and the Philippines Jose
Laurel attend the "Greater East Asia Family Conference" of
November 5-6, 1943 in Tokyo. The Filipino delegate urges the
Asian quislings to "extend all possible material and spiritual
support to Japan." |
| 06/11/1943 |
The Japanese land reinforcements North
of Empress Bay. |
| 20/11/1943 |
US Marines land on Makin and Tarawa
atolls in Gilbert Islands, with fierce fighting reported. |
| 25/11/1943 |
The US Navy Department announces that
very few Japanese are left alive in the Gilbert Islands. On
Tarawa, 1,090 Marines were killed and 2,193 wounded, with only
100 Japanese out of garrison of 4,836 being taken prisoner,
with only 17 of them being soldiers. Sattelberg in New Guinea
falls to the 9th Australian Division. |
| 29/11/1943 |
The Australians chase the retreating
Japanese towards Wareo in New Guinea. |
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| 08/12/1943 |
Australians troops capture
Wareo in New Guinea. |
| 15/12/1943 |
US troops land on New Britain near
Cape Gloucester, to the South West of Rabaul. |
| 26/12/1943 |
US Marines make further landings on
New Britain, either side of Cape Gloucester. |
| 29/12/1943 |
US Marines secure Cape
Gloucester airfield on New Britain. |
