Editing 1943 (section)

===October===
{{Main|October 1943}}
* [[October 1]] – WWII: United States forces enter liberated [[Naples]].
* [[October 3]] – WWII: Nazi [[Wehrmacht]] forces commit the [[Lyngiades massacre]] in northwest Greece as an arbitrary reprisal.
* [[October 6]] – WWII: Americans and Japanese fight the [[naval Battle of Vella Lavella]].
* [[October 7]] – WWII: The [[1943 Naples post-office bombing|Naples post-office bombing]] kills 100.
* [[October 10]]
** WWII: [[Double Tenth incident]] ([[Japanese occupation of Singapore]]): The Japanese military police, the [[Kempeitai]], arrest and torture more than 50 civilians and civilian internees, on false suspicion of their involvement in a raid on [[Singapore]] Harbour during [[Operation Jaywick]]. 
** The [[Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky (Soviet Union)|Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky]] is instituted in the [[Soviet Union]].
* [[October 13]] – WWII: The new government of Italy sides with the [[Allies of World War II|Allies]] and declares war on Germany.
* [[October 14]]
** WWII: During the [[Second Raid on Schweinfurt]], the United States [[Eighth Air Force]] suffers so many losses, that it loses [[air supremacy]] over Germany for several months.
** [[The Holocaust]]: Uprising in [[Sobibór extermination camp]]; about half the inmates escape. Three days later, the camp is closed.
** [[Jose P. Laurel|José P. Laurel]] takes the oath of office as President of the [[Philippines]] ([[Second Philippine Republic]]).
* [[October 16]] – The Holocaust: [[Raid of the Ghetto of Rome]] – Over a thousand Jews are rounded up in Rome by the [[Gestapo]]; only 16 will survive their deportation to Auschwitz concentration camp. The public silence of [[Pope Pius XII and the Raid of the Ghetto of Rome|Pope Pius XII on the raid]] becomes a matter of historical controversy.
* [[October 17]] – WWII:
** The last [[commerce raider]], [[German auxiliary cruiser Michel|German auxiliary cruiser ''Michel'']], is sunk off Japan by United States [[submarine]] [[USS Tarpon (SS-175)|''Tarpon'']].<ref>{{cite book|last=Muggenthaler|first=August Karl|title=German Raiders of WWII| publisher=Prentice-Hall|year=1977|isbn=0-13-354027-8|page=276}}</ref>
** The [[Burma Railway]] is completed between [[Bangkok]], [[Thailand]] and [[Yangon|Rangoon]], Burma (modern-day [[Myanmar]]) ({{convert|415|km|mi|abbr=on}}) by the [[Empire of Japan]], to support its forces in the [[Burma campaign]], using the [[forced labour]] of Asian civilians and [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] [[Prisoners of war]].
* [[October 18]] – WWII: 
* [[Moscow Conference (1943)|Third Moscow Conference]]: A meeting takes place at the [[Kremlin]] between the British, American, and Soviet foreign ministers [[Anthony Eden]], [[Cordell Hull]] and [[Vyacheslav Molotov]]. The USSR agrees to the full creation of a world peace organization with its Allies.<ref>Pubantz, Jerry; Moore, John Allphin Jr. (2008). "Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers". ''Encyclopedia of the United Nations'', Modern World History (Second ed.). New York: Facts On File.</ref>
* [[Chiang Kai-shek]] takes the oath of office as [[President of the Republic of China|Chairman of the National Government of China]].
* [[October 19]] – WWII: Allied aircraft sink the German-controlled cargo ship {{MS|Sinfra}} in the Mediterranean, killing over 2,000 people, mostly [[Italian military internees]].
* [[October 21]] – [[Lucie Aubrac]] and others in her [[French Resistance]] cell liberate [[Raymond Aubrac]] from [[Gestapo]] imprisonment.
* [[October 22]] – WWII: [[Bombing of Kassel in World War II]]: The British [[Royal Air Force]] delivers a highly destructive airstrike on the German industrial and population center of [[Kassel]]; at least 10,000 are killed and 150,000 are made homeless.
* [[October 24]] – WWII: British [[Royal Navy]] [[destroyer]] {{HMS|Eclipse|H08}} is sunk by a mine in the [[Aegean Sea]], with the loss of 119 of the ship's company and 134 troops.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-10DD-21E-Eclipse.htm|title=HMS ''Eclipse'', destroyer| work=naval-history.net|access-date=2013-01-15}}</ref>
* [[October 30]]
** WWII: Signing of [[Moscow Declarations]]: the [[Declaration of the Four Nations]] on general security, by the United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union and Republic of China; and the Declarations on Italy, Austria and Atrocities by the first three governments.
** The [[Merrie Melodies]] [[animated cartoon]] ''[[Falling Hare]]'', one of the only [[Short film|short]]s with [[Bugs Bunny]] getting out-smarted, is released in the United States.