Editing 1943 (section)

===February===
{{Main|February 1943}}
* [[February 2]] – WWII: In Russia, the [[Battle of Stalingrad]] comes to an end, with the surrender of the [[6th Army (Wehrmacht)|German 6th Army]].
* [[February 3]] – WWII: The [[Four Chaplains]] of the U.S. Army are among those drowned when their ship, {{SS|Dorchester||2}}, is struck by a German [[torpedo]] in the North Atlantic.
* [[February 5]] – Lt. General [[Frank M. Andrews]] is selected to command the U.S. armies in Europe, while General [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] is assigned command in North Africa. Andrews will serve only 3 months, before dying in an airplane crash.
* [[February 6]] – WWII: RCN corvette [[HMCS Louisburg (K143)|HMCS ''Louisburg'']] is bombed and sunk off [[Oran]], [[Algeria]] by Italian aircraft.
* [[February 7]] – WWII: North Atlantic [[convoy SC 118]] is attacked by [[U-boat]]s, who sink 8 ships.<ref>{{citation|author=((Waters, John M. Jr., CAPT USCG))|title=Stay Tough |publisher=United States Naval Institute Proceedings |date=December 1966}}</ref>
* [[February 9]]
** WWII: The [[Guadalcanal Campaign]] in the [[Solomon Islands]] ends with United States forces in command of [[Guadalcanal]], the evacuation of Japanese forces in [[Operation Ke]] having been completed two days earlier.
** WWII: [[Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia]] by the [[Ukrainian Insurgent Army]] begin, with the [[Parośla I massacre]] within the [[Reichskommissariat Ukraine]].
** [[The Holocaust]]: [[Rue Sainte-Catherine Roundup]] – The [[Gestapo]] arrested 86 Jews in [[Lyon]], 83 of whom were then sent to extermination camps.
* [[February 10]]–[[March 3]] – [[Mohandas Gandhi]] (under arrest by forces of the [[British Raj]] in [[Pune]] as a member of the [[Quit India Movement]]) keeps a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment.
* [[February 13]] – WWII: [[Chindits#Operation Longcloth|Operation Longcloth]]: Chindit forces (some 3,000 men) of the [[77th Indian Infantry Brigade]] under Brigadier General [[Orde Wingate]] cross the [[Chindwin River]] and proceed into [[Myanmar|Burma]].<ref>Rooney, David (2000). ''Wingate and the Chindits'', p. 81. London: Cassell Military Paperbacks. {{ISBN|0-304-35452-X}}.</ref>
* [[February 14]] – WWII: [[Rostov-on-Don]] and [[Luhansk|Voroshilovgrad]] in Russia are liberated.
* [[February 14]]–[[February 17|17]] – WWII: [[Battle of Sidi Bou Zid]]: In the [[Tunisia Campaign]], German [[Panzer division]]s commanded by [[Hans-Jürgen von Arnim]] are victorious over the United States Army.
* [[February 16]] – WWII: The [[Soviet Union]] reconquers [[Kharkiv]], but is later driven out in the [[Third Battle of Kharkov|Third Battle of Kharkiv]].
* [[February 18]]
** In a [[Sportpalast speech|''Sportpalast'' speech]] in Berlin, German Propaganda Minister [[Joseph Goebbels]] declares a "[[total war]]" against the Allies, tacitly admitting that [[Nazi Germany]] faces serious dangers.
** The [[Nazism|Nazis]] arrest the members of the [[White Rose]] [[German resistance to Nazism|German Resistance]] movement.
* [[February 19]]–[[February 24|24]] – WWII: [[Battle of Kasserine Pass]]: German General [[Erwin Rommel]]'s [[Afrika Korps]] and other [[Axis powers|Axis]] forces launch an offensive against [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] defenses in [[Tunisia]]; it is the United States' first major battle defeat of the war. On February 22, an Anglo-American force halts the German advance near [[Thala, Tunisia|Thala]], forcing the Germans to retreat; US bombers harass the retreating Panzers.
* [[February 20]]
** American [[movie studio]] executives agree to allow the [[Office of War Information]] to [[Censorship|censor]] movies.
** The [[Parícutin]] [[volcano]] begins to appear in a cornfield in Mexico.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/Paricutin.html|title=The Eruption of Parícutin (1943–1952)|work=How Volcanoes Work|access-date=2012-10-23|archive-date=June 4, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070604150645/http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/Paricutin.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/img_paricutin.html|title=Parícutin, Mexico|work=Volcano World|access-date=2012-10-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206080150/http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/img_paricutin.html|archive-date=February 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mnh.si.edu/onehundredyears/expeditions/Paricutin.html|title=Parícutin: The Birth of a Volcano|publisher=[[Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History]]|access-date=2012-10-23|archive-date=January 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130103191416/http://www.mnh.si.edu/onehundredyears/expeditions/Paricutin.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[February 21]] – WWII: North Atlantic [[convoy ON 166]] is attacked by [[U-boat]]s, which sink eleven ships.<ref>{{cite book|title=Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945|author=Rohwer, J. |author2=Hummelchen, G.|publisher=Naval Institute Press|year=1992|page=194|isbn=1-55750-105-X}}</ref>
* [[February 22]]
**WWII: RCN corvette [[HMCS Weyburn (K173)|HMCS ''Weyburn'']] sinks east of [[Gibraltar]], after being [[naval mine|mined]].
**Members of the [[White Rose]] are executed in [[Nazi Germany]].
* [[February 23]]–[[February 24|24]] – [[Cavan Orphanage Fire]]: 35 girls and a cook from St Joseph's [[Orphanage]], an [[Industrial Schools in Ireland|industrial school]] at [[Cavan]], Ireland, are killed in a fire in their dormitories. A subsequent inquiry absolves the [[Poor Clares]] of blame.
* [[February 24]] – WWII: [[1943 Greek protests against labour mobilization|First major protest march]] in Athens against rumours of forced  mobilization of Greek workers for work in Germany, resulting in clashes with the Axis occupation forces and collaborationist police. Demonstrators attack the Labour Ministry and burn its files.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mazower|first=Mark|author-link=Mark Mazower|title=Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941–44|year=1993|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0-300-06552-3|location=New Haven and London | page=116}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Grigoriadis | first = Solon | author-link = Solon Grigoriadis | title = Ιστορία της Σύγχρονης Ελλάδας 1941-1974. Τόμος 1 – Κατοχή: Η μεγάλη νύχτα | trans-title = History of Modern Greece 1941-1974. Volume 1 – The Occupation: The Great Night | language = Greek | publisher = POLARIS | location = Athens | year = 2011 | orig-date=1973 | isbn = 978-960-9487-63-4 | page=313}}</ref>
* [[February 28]] 
** WWII: The funeral of Greece's [[national poet]], [[Kostis Palamas]], turns into a demonstration against the [[Axis occupation of Greece]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Mazower|first=Mark|author-link=Mark Mazower|title=Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941–44|year=1993|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0-300-06552-3|location=New Haven and London | pages=117–118}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Grigoriadis | first = Solon | author-link = Solon Grigoriadis | title = Ιστορία της Σύγχρονης Ελλάδας 1941-1974. Τόμος 1 – Κατοχή: Η μεγάλη νύχτα | trans-title = History of Modern Greece 1941-1974. Volume 1 – The Occupation: The Great Night | language = Greek | publisher = POLARIS | location = Athens | year = 2011 | orig-date=1973 | isbn = 978-960-9487-63-4 | pages=309–312}}</ref>
** WWII: [[Operation Gunnerside]]: 6 Norwegians, led by [[Joachim Rønneberg]], successfully attack the [[heavy water]] plant at [[Vemork]].