Editing 1943 (section)

===July===
[[File:SC180476.jpg|thumb|The U.S. [[Liberty ship]] SS ''Robert Rowan'' explodes during the [[Allied invasion of Sicily]], July 11, 1943.]]
[[File:Bombing of Hamburg.ogg|thumb|The [[bombing of Hamburg in WWII|bombing of Hamburg]] during 1943.]]
[[File:Wladyslaw Sikorski 2.jpg|thumb|Wladyslaw Sikorski, Polish military and political leader of the Polish government in exile during World War 2]]
{{Main|July 1943}}
* [[July 1]] – The United States [[Women's Army Corps]] (WAC) is converted to full status.
* [[July 4]] – [[1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash]]: The aircraft carrying General [[Władysław Sikorski]], Prime Minister of the [[Polish government-in-exile]], crashes, killing him and 15 others, leading to [[Władysław Sikorski's death controversy|a lasting controversy over the circumstances]].
* [[July 5]] – WWII:
** [[Nazi Germany]] commences [[Operation Citadel]]. It will eventually lead to the [[Battle of Kursk]], the largest tank battle in history.
** A fleet sets sail for the [[Allied invasion of Sicily]].
** The [[National Bands Agreement]] is concluded in Greece.
* [[July 6]] – WWII: Americans and Japanese fight the [[Battle of Kula Gulf]] off [[Kolombangara]].
* [[July 10]]
** (0245 GMT (4:45&nbsp;a.m. local time)) – WWII: [[Allied invasion of Sicily]] &ndash; The [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] invasion of [[Axis powers|Axis]]-controlled Europe begins, with landings on the island of [[Sicily]] off mainland Italy by the [[Seventh United States Army]] and the [[Eighth Army (United Kingdom)|British Eighth Army]], including the [[1st Canadian Infantry Division]].
** [[The Holocaust]]: [[Jedwabne pogrom]] &ndash; At least 340 Polish Jews are marched to a local barn, locked inside and subsequently burned to death.
* [[July 11]] – WWII:
** [[United States Army]] forces make an assault on Piano Lupo, just outside [[Gela]], [[Sicily]].
** [[Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia]] by the [[Ukrainian Insurgent Army]] within the [[Reichskommissariat Ukraine]] ([[Volhynia]]) peak.
* [[July 12]] – WWII: Main engagement of the [[Battle of Prokhorovka]] – The [[Wehrmacht]] and the [[Red Army]] fight to a draw in one of the largest tank battles in [[military history]].
* [[July 17]] – WWII:
** Soviet forces of the [[Southwestern Front (Soviet Union)|Southwestern]]- and [[Southern Front (Soviet Union)|Southern Front]] strike hard at the German defenses of the [[9th Army (Wehrmacht)|9th Army]] under General [[Walter Model]] during [[Operation Kutuzov]].<ref>Glantz, David M. (1999). ''The Battle for Kursk 1943: The Soviet General Staff Study'', p. 28. London: Frank Cass. {{ISBN|0-7146-4933-3}}.</ref>
** [[Krasowo-Częstki massacre]]: The village of [[Krasowo-Częstki]] in Nazi-[[Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)|occupied Poland]] is completely burned and 257 of its inhabitants, mostly women and children, murdered by the [[Ordnungspolizei]] and [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] in retaliation for German deaths in a skirmish with [[Polish resistance movement in World War II|Polish partisans]] nearby.<ref>{{cite book|last=Fajkowski|first=Józef|title=Wieś w ogniu. Eksterminacja wsi polskiej w okresie okupacji hitlerowskiej|trans-title=A countryside on fire. The extermination of the Polish villages during the Nazi occupation|year=1972|publisher=Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza|location=Warszawa|language=pl}}</ref>
* [[July 19]] – WWII: Rome is bombed by the [[Allies of World War II|Allies]], for the first time in the war.
* [[July 24]] – WWII: [[Operation Gomorrha]]: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb [[Hamburg]] by night; American planes bomb the city by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 42,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
[[File:Mussolini mezzobusto.jpg|200px|thumb|Mussolini]]
* [[July 25]] – [[Benito Mussolini]], Fascist [[Prime Minister of Italy]] since 1922, is arrested after the [[Grand Council of Fascism]] withdraws its support. "Il Duce" is replaced by General [[Pietro Badoglio]].