Editing 1943 (section)

===August===
[[File:Quebec conference 1943.png|thumb|[[William Lyon Mackenzie King|Mackenzie King]], [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and [[Winston Churchill]] at the [[Quebec Conference, 1943|1943 Quebec Conference]].]]
{{Main|August 1943}}
* [[August 1]] – [[Operation Tidal Wave]]: 177 [[B-24 Liberator]] bombers from the [[U.S. Army Air Force]] bomb oil refineries at [[Ploiești|Ploiești, Romania]].
* [[August 2]] – WWII: [[John F. Kennedy]]'s [[PT boat]] [[Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109|''PT-109'']] is run down by Japanese destroyer [[Japanese destroyer Amagiri (1930)|''Amagiri'']].
* [[August 3]] – [[Patton slapping incident]]: U.S. General [[George S. Patton Jr.]] slaps a soldier suffering from battle fatigue, at a field hospital in [[Sicily]].   On August 10, he slaps another soldier suffering from the same condition.
* [[August 4]] – WWII: The [[aircraft carrier]] {{USS|Intrepid|CV-11}} is launched at [[Newport News, Virginia]].
* [[August 5]] – WWII:
** United States [[Women Airforce Service Pilots]] (WASPs) are formed, consolidating the [[Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron]] (WAFS) and [[Women Airforce Service Pilots]] (WFTD).
** [[John F. Kennedy]] and crew are found by [[Solomon Islands]] [[coastwatchers]] [[Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana]], with their [[dugout canoe]].
* [[August 6]] – WWII: [[Battle of Vella Gulf]]: Americans defeat a Japanese convoy off [[Kolombangara]], as the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] drives the Japanese out of Munda airfield on [[New Georgia]].
* [[August 11]]–[[August 17|17]] – WWII: [[Operation Lehrgang]]: German and Italian forces evacuate from Sicily to the Italian mainland. The evacuation includes some 40,000 Wehrmacht troops, 9,000 vehicles, 30 tanks, and 90 heavy guns. Also, a total of 62,000 Italian troops are successfully evacuated. Despite Allied air attacks, losses are very low due to sufficient Axis anti-aircraft coverage.<ref>Rohwer, Jürgen; Hümmelchen, Gerhard (1974). ''Chronology of the War at Sea, 1939–1945''. Volume Two: 1943–1945. Arco Publishing. {{ISBN|9780711003682}}.</ref>
* [[August 14]]
** WWII: Rome is declared an [[open city]] by the Italian government, with Italy offering to demilitarize the capital, in return for an Allied agreement not to bomb the city further.<ref>"Badolgio Declares Rome An 'Open City', ''Pittsburgh Press'', August 15, 1943, p. 1</ref>
** The [[Quebec Conference, 1943|Quadrant Conference]] begins in [[Quebec City]]; Canadian [[Prime Minister]] [[MacKenzie King]] meets with [[Winston Churchill]] and [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]].
* [[August 17]] – WWII:
** The [[Seventh United States Army|Seventh U.S. Army]], under General [[George S. Patton]], meets the [[Eighth Army (United Kingdom)|Eighth British Army]] under [[Field marshal (United Kingdom)|Field Marshal]] [[Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein|B. L. Montgomery]] in [[Messina, Sicily]], completing the [[Allied invasion of Sicily]]. 
** [[Operation Hydra (1943)|Operation Hydra]]: The British [[Royal Air Force]] sets out to bomb the [[Peenemünde Army Research Center]], to disrupt the German [[V-weapons]] programme.
* [[August 21]] – [[1943 Australian federal election]]: [[John Curtin]]'s [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]] [[Curtin government|government]] defeats the [[National Party of Australia|Country]]/[[United Australia Party|UAP]] [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]], led by former [[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime Minister]] [[Arthur Fadden]]. Labor achieves its greatest ever electoral result, including winning every seat (except one) outside of the eastern states. Notably, this election marked the first time that a woman has been elected to both the [[Australian Senate|Senate]] and the [[Australian House of Representatives|House of Representatives]]. Fadden will step down from the Opposition leadership, handing it over to [[Robert Menzies]], who will go on to dissolve the UAP and form the [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal Party]] shortly after.
* [[August 23]] – WWII: The [[Battle of Kursk]] ends, with a strategic defeat for the German forces.
* [[August 24]] – [[Heinrich Himmler]] is named Reichsminister of the Interior in Germany.
* [[August 26]] – WWII: [[Louis Mountbatten]] is named Supreme Allied Commander for Southeast Asia.
* [[August 28]] – WWII: King [[Boris III of Bulgaria]] dies under suspicious circumstances; his 6-year-old son, [[Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha|Simeon II]], ascends to the throne.
* [[August 29]] – WWII: [[Denmark in World War II|Occupation of Denmark]] – Germany dissolves the Danish government, after it refuses to deal with a wave of strikes and disturbances to the satisfaction of the German authorities.