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* 1943 – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities.
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* 1943 – World War II: Operation Mincemeat: The submarine surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer.
* 1943 – Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
* 1943 – World War II: the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks.
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* 1943 – World War II: The U. S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt – Regensburg mission.
* 1943 – World War II: The U. S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
* 1943 – World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U. S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
In 1943, the U. S. Department of the Army contracted the University of Chicago to study the effects of 2, 4-D and 2, 4, 5-T on cereal grains ( including rice ) and broadleaf crops.
* 1943 – World War II: U. S. Army Air Force begins attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow.
After completing the 10-month course, he was commissioned as an ensign in the U. S. Naval Reserve at Corpus Christi, Texas on June 9, 1943, just three days before his 19th birthday, which made him the youngest naval aviator to that date.
The Big Three: Stalin, President of the United States | U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the Tehran Conference, November 1943.
* 1943 – The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U. S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
* 1943 – In Los Angeles, California, white U. S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots.
These were interrupted by service in the U. S. Army Signal Corps during World War II, where he worked as a codebreaker and participated in the landing at Casablanca. Before leaving for Europe in 1943, Greenberg married Selma Berkowitz, whom he had met during his first year at Columbia.
President Edwin Barclay ( right ) and U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II, January 1943
However, in 1943, at the request of General George C. Marshall, approval authority for U. S. personnel was delegated to the War Department.
* 1943 – World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U. S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.
* 1943 – World War II: War in the Pacific – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan ( see Cairo Conference )
* 1943 – World War II: Tehran Conference – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran to discuss war strategy.
* 1943 – World War II: 500 aircraft of the U. S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshafen harbor in Germany.
Major League Baseball player Moe Berg, a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School, was recruited by Nelson Rockefeller ( the coordinator of the U. S. Office of Inter-American Affairs ) and then by the OSS in 1943 because of his language skills.
* 1943 – World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy begins on the same day that U. S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the Royal Navy battleship off Malta.
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