Editing 1943 (section)

===June===
{{Main|June 1943}}
* [[June 1]] – [[BOAC Flight 777]], a scheduled passenger flight, is shot down over the [[Bay of Biscay]] by German [[Junkers Ju 88]]s; all 17 persons aboard perish, including actor [[Leslie Howard (actor)|Leslie Howard]].
* [[June 3]]
** The [[Zoot Suit Riots]] erupt between military personnel and Mexican-American youths in East Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.laalmanac.com/history/hi07t.htm|title=Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots|work=Los Angeles Almanac}}</ref>
** The [[French Committee of National Liberation]] (''Comité Français de Libération Nationale'', CFLN) is formed with headquarters in [[Algiers]] and Generals [[Charles de Gaulle]] and [[Henri Giraud]] as co-presidents.
* [[June 4]] – A military [[1943 Argentine coup d'état|coup d'état]] in [[Argentina]] ousts [[Ramón Castillo]].
* [[June 8]] – WWII: [[Japanese battleship Mutsu|Japanese battleship ''Mutsu'']] is destroyed by an accidental magazine explosion, in [[Hashirajima]] anchorage.
* [[June 8]]–[[June 9|9]] – WWII: [[Battle of Porta]]: The [[Royal Italian Army]] is defeated by the [[Greek People's Liberation Army]].
* [[June 20]]–[[June 23|23]] – The [[Detroit race riot of 1943]] in the United States kills 34 people (25 African Americans, 9 whites), wounds hundreds more and damages and destroys property worth millions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://life.time.com/history/detroit-race-riots-1943-photos-from-a-city-in-turmoil-during-wwii/#1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607202717/http://life.time.com/history/detroit-race-riots-1943-photos-from-a-city-in-turmoil-during-wwii/#1|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 7, 2013|title=Hatred on the Home Front: The Detroit Race Riots During WWII|first=Ben|last=Cosgrove|work=Time Life|date=2014-06-18|access-date=2016-11-29}}</ref>
* [[June 21]] – WWII: As part of [[Operation Animals]], British [[Special Operations Executive]] saboteurs destroy the railway bridge over the Asopos River in "[[Operation Washing]]", and guerrillas of the [[Greek People's Liberation Army]] ambush and destroy a German convoy at the [[Battle of Sarantaporos (1943)|Battle of Sarantaporos]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Meyer | first = Hermann Frank | author-link = | title = Von Wien nach Kalavryta: Die blutige Spur der 117. Jäger-Division durch Serbien und Griechenland | trans-title = From Vienna to Kalavryta: The Bloody Trail of the 117th Jäger Division Across Serbia and Greece | publisher = Bibliopolis | location = Mannheim | year = 2009 | language = de | isbn = 978-3-941336-10-0 | pages = 138–142}}</ref>
* [[June 22]] – WWII: The [[45th Infantry Division (United States)|U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division]] lands in North Africa, prior to training at [[Arzew]], French Morocco.
* [[June 30]]
** The United States [[Civilian Conservation Corps]] is abolished.
** WWII: The [[New Georgia campaign]] begins in the [[Solomon Islands]], an Allied offensive against the Japanese forces stationed there.
* [[June]] (late) – [[The Holocaust]]: The last trainload of Jewish prisoners is moved from [[Bełżec extermination camp]] in [[Occupation of Poland (1939–45)|occupied Poland]] (for gassing at [[Sobibór extermination camp|Sobibór]]), and for the remainder of the year the [[Nazism|Nazis]] make efforts to obliterate the site.<ref>{{cite book|first=Yitzhak|last=Arad|title=Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps|url=https://archive.org/details/belzecsobibortre00yitz|url-access=registration|publisher=Indiana University Press|location=Bloomington|year=1999|page=[https://archive.org/details/belzecsobibortre00yitz/page/371 371]|isbn=0-253-21305-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005191|publisher=[[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]] |title=Belzec|encyclopedia=Holocaust Encyclopedia|access-date=2013-01-15|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120107184303/http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005191|archive-date=2012-01-07}}</ref>