Editing 1943 (section)

===January===
{{Main|January 1943}}
* [[January 1]] – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at [[Stalingrad]], with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured.
* [[January 4]] – WWII: Greek-Polish athlete and saboteur [[Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz]] is executed by the Germans at [[Kaisariani]].
* [[January 10]] &ndash; WWII: [[Guadalcanal campaign|Guadalcanal Campaign]]: American forces of the [[2nd Marine Division]] and the [[25th Infantry Division (United States)|25th Infantry Division]] begin their assaults on the [[Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse#Galloping Horse|Galloping Horse and Sea Horse]] on [[Guadalcanal]]. Meanwhile, the Japanese [[Seventeenth Army (Japan)|17th Army]] makes plans to abandon the island and after fierce resistance withdraws to the west coast of Guadalcanal.<ref>Frank, Richard (1990). ''Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle'', pp. 553–554. New York: Random House. {{ISBN|0-394-58875-4}}.</ref>
* [[January 11]]
** The United States and United Kingdom revise previously [[unequal treaty]] relationships with the [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]].
** Italian-American anarchist [[Carlo Tresca]] is assassinated in New York City.
* [[January 12]] – WWII: [[Landing at Amchitka]]: American forces make an unopposed landing on [[Amchitka]], an island of the [[Aleutian Islands]], southwest of [[Alaska]]. The destroyer [[USS Worden (DD-352)|USS ''Worden'']] moves into [[Constantine Harbor]] and disembarks a detachment of Alaska Scouts. During a maneuver, a strong current sweeps ''Worden'' onto a pinnacle rock that tears up the hull beneath the engine room – leaving the destroyer powerless. Later, ''Worden'' gets the order to abandon the ship and suffers the death of 14 Americans before the crew is rescued. After the island is cleared of Japanese, transports land some 2,100 men by the end of the day.<ref>Kohlhoff, Dean (2011). ''Amchitka and the bomb; nuclear testing in Alaska''. University of Washington Press. {{ISBN|9780295800509}}.</ref>
* [[January 13]] – Anti-[[Nazi]] protests in [[Sofia]] result in 200 arrests and 36 executions. 
* [[January 14]]–[[January 24|24]] – WWII: [[Casablanca Conference]]: [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], President of the United States; [[Winston Churchill]], Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; and Generals [[Charles de Gaulle]] and [[Henri Giraud]] of the [[Free French forces]] meet secretly at the Anfa Hotel in [[Casablanca]], [[Morocco]], to plan the [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] European strategy for the next stage of the war.
* [[January 15]] – WWII: Guadalcanal Campaign – [[Operation Ke]]: Japanese forces begin to withdraw from Guadalcanal in the [[Solomon Islands]].
* [[January 16]] – [[Iraq]] declares war on the [[Axis powers]].
* [[January 18]]
** WWII: [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] officials announce that the [[Red Army]] has broken the [[Wehrmacht]]'s [[siege of Leningrad]] as part of [[Operation Iskra]], opening a narrow land corridor to the city. [[Georgy Zhukov]] is promoted to [[Marshal of the Soviet Union]].
** The first [[Warsaw Ghetto Uprising]] begins: several day's engagements with the Germans limits the number of Jews deported at this time.
* [[January 21]] – WWII: [[Pan Am Flight 1104]] – [[Pan American Airways]] [[Martin M-130]] [[flying boat]] crashes about {{convert|7|smi|km|abbr=on}} southwest of [[Ukiah, California]]. All 10 passengers and 9 crew aboard are killed, including Admiral [[Robert Henry English|Robert H. English]] (at this time <small>[[COMSUBPAC]]</small>).
* [[January 22]]
** WWII: [[Battle of Buna–Gona]]: American and Australian forces secure control of the [[territory of Papua]].
** [[The Holocaust]]: [[Round up of Marseille]] begins – Over 4,000 Jews are arrested in Nazi-occupied [[Marseille]] as part of "Action Tiger", before being transported to [[extermination camp]]s in Poland.
* [[January 23]]
** WWII: British forces capture [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]] from the [[Kingdom of Italy|Italians]].
** American critic and commentator [[Alexander Woollcott]] suffers an eventually fatal heart attack, during a regular broadcast of the [[CBS]] Radio [[Round table (discussion)|round-table]] program ''People's Platform''.
* [[January 27]] – WWII: 50 bombers mount the first all American [[airstrike|air raid]] against Germany: [[Wilhelmshaven]] is the target.
* [[January 29]]
** WWII: [[Operation Gallop]]: Russian forces of the [[Southwestern Front (Soviet Union)|Southwestern Front]] under General [[Nikolai Vatutin]] begin an offensive in the [[Donbas]] and break through the weak-defended German lines to the west of [[Luhansk|Voroshilovgrad]].<ref>Glantz, David M. (1995). ''When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler'', pp. 143–147. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. {{ISBN|0-70060-899-0}}.</ref>
** Nazi German police arrest alleged [[necrophiliac]] and [[serial killer]] [[Bruno Lüdke]].
** The [[United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve]] (MCWR) is created.
* [[January 29]]–[[January 30|30]] – WWII: [[Battle of Rennell Island]] – The [[Imperial Japanese Navy]] resists the United States Navy's attempt to interrupt the [[Operation Ke|withdrawal of Japanese forces]] from [[Guadalcanal]], in the last major [[naval battle]] of the [[Guadalcanal Campaign]].
* [[January 29]]–[[January 31|31]] – WWII: [[Battle of Wau]] – Australian forces, with United States support, resist a Japanese advance in the [[New Guinea campaign]].
* [[January 30]] – WWII: German General [[Friedrich Paulus]] is promoted to the rank of Field Marshal and instructed to fight to the death in [[Volgograd|Stalingrad]], while [[Karl Dönitz]] is promoted to Commander in Chief of the German Navy, replacing [[Erich Raeder]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Alan|last=Levine|title=From Axis Victories to the Turn of the Tide: World War II, 1939-1943|publisher=Potomac Books|year=2012|page=188}}</ref>