1st » World War II: In the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marine Corps e.g United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on Bougainville Island named Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
1st » World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville Island e.g Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces Attack on Rabaul (1943) known as attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.
3rd » World War II: 500 aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshafen harbor in Germany.
15th » The Holocaust: German Schutzstaffel SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Romani people Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in Internment Concentration camp concentration camps". (See Porajmos.)
16th » World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway.
18th » World War II: Battle of Berlin (air) e.g Battle of Berlin 440 Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew.
19th » Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska known as Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
20th » World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.
22nd » World War II: Cairo Conference U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
22nd » Lebanon gains independence from France.
23rd » World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
23rd » World War II: Tarawa Atoll named Tarawa and Makin Atoll called Makin atolls fall to American forces.
24th » World War II: The USS called Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa Atoll called Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
26th » World War II: HMT Rohna is sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean Sea or Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.
28th » World War II: Tehran Conference U.S. President of the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier of the Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran,
29th » World War II: The second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), held to determine the post-war ordering of the country, concludes in Jajce in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina.