* 1943 – World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U. S. fighters over Bougainville Island.

Allied leaders of the Sicilian campaign in North Africa ; ( front row, left to right ) General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder | Arthur Tedder, General Sir Harold Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope | Andrew Cunningham, ( top row, left to right ) Harold Macmillan, Major General Walter Bedell Smith, and unidentified British officers ; 1943

In April 1943, during a summit meeting with Hungary's Admiral Horthy, Ribbentrop strongly and unsuccessfully pressed the Hungarians to deport their Jewish population to the death camps.

Erich Rader, Grand Admiral: The Personal Memoir of the Commander in Chief of the German Navy From 1935 Until His Final Break With Hitler in 1943.

A series of failed operations after that point, particularly the Battle of the Barents Sea — combined with the outstanding success of the U-boat fleet under the command of Karl Dönitz — led to his eventual demotion to the rank of Admiral Inspector of the Kriegsmarine in January 1943.

* Rear Admiral George Stephen Morrison ( January 7, 1919-November 17, 2008 ) grew up in Leesburg and was the father of Jim Morrison ( James Douglas Morrison ) ( December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971 ) of The Doors ( 60's Rock band )

The Japanese Combined Fleet was led by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, until he was killed in an attack by U. S. fighter planes in April 1943.

Yamamoto was succeeded by Admiral Mineichi Koga ( 1943 – 44 ) and Admiral Soemu Toyoda ( 1944 – 45 )..

Rear Admiral Wallin was Supervisor of Shipbuilding and Inspector of Ordnance at Seattle and Commander of the Naval Station at Tacoma, Washington, beginning in October 1943.

In September 1943, TF 11 was reorganized around light carriers and under Rear Admiral Willis Augustus Lee, and supported landings on Baker Island and Howland Island.

" In March of 1943, Cominch United States Fleet, Admiral Ernest J.

On 19 April 1943, Admiral Mineichi Koga succeeded Isoroku Yamamoto as Commander in Chief of the Combined Fleet.

On 18 April 1943, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, was shot down and killed by a United States P-38 Lightning over south Bougainville after taking off from Rabaul.

* Pulitzer Prize ( 1943 ) for Admiral of the Ocean Sea ( 1942 )

TF 38 came into existence in August 1943, built around USS Saratoga, and under the command of Rear Admiral Frederick Sherman.

The Seventh Fleet was formed on 15 March 1943 in Brisbane, Australia, during World War II, under the command of Admiral Arthur S. " Chips " Carpender.

* Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound 1939 – 1943

* Admiral of the Fleet The Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope 1943 – 1946

Over sixty Armenians were promoted to the rank of general, and with an additional four eventually achieving the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union: Ivan Bagramyan ( the first non-Slavic commander to hold the position of front commander when he was assigned to be the commander of the First Baltic Front in 1943 ), Admiral Ivan Isakov, Hamazasp Babadzhanian, and Sergei Khudyakov.

The Third Fleet was originally formed during World War II on 15 March 1943 under the command of Admiral William F. Halsey.

It was created in 1943 for the prominent naval commander Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, 1st Baronet.

Admiral Harold R. Stark and Secretary Knox reading on a train in the United Kingdom in 1943

Admiral Michael Cecil Boyce, Baron Boyce, KG, GCB, OBE, DL ( born 2 April 1943 ) is a former Royal Navy officer and current cross bench member of the British House of Lords.

* USS Birmingham ( CL-62 ), a light cruiser, in service from 1943 to 1946 and involved in heavy fighting in the Pacific Ocean during World War II

* Janis Joplin ( 1943 – 1970 ), singer, was cremated here and ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean

It was only after the war in Europe was coming to an end that large British forces were dispatched to the Indian Ocean again after the neutralisation of the German fleet in late 1943 and early 1944.

A World War II-era Squad are sent to take out a German settlement in a tropic island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, in World War II 1943.

The Fast Carrier Task Force was the main striking force of the United States Navy in the Pacific Ocean theatre of World War II from August 1943.

* Indian Ocean 1943 – 45

In September 1943, he was given command of the maintenance carrier HMS Unicorn, which sailed for the Indian Ocean in December 1943 with reinforcements for the Eastern Fleet, later transferring to the British Pacific Fleet.

As a result, the Allies will begin to commit escort carriers to convoy escort operations in the Atlantic Ocean again in 1943.

In 2008, investigators began to conduct searches on Tarawa atoll in the Pacific Ocean, trying to locate the remains of 139 American Marines, missing since the Battle of Tarawa in 1943.

In 1943, the Battle of North Cape was fought in the Arctic Ocean off this cape, where the Kriegsmarine battleship Scharnhorst was eventually sunk by gunfire from the HMS Duke of York and torpedoes from destroyers of the Norwegian and Royal navies.

It was a naval battle which took place on 27 March 1943 in the North Pacific area of the Pacific Ocean, near the Soviet Komandorski Islands.

From 14 July 1942 to 1 April 1943, Mikawa commanded the newly formed IJN 8th Fleet in the South Pacific Ocean, based primarily at the major bases at Rabaul on the island of New Britain and Kavieng on New Ireland.

The major headquarters was named successively U. S. Army Forces, Central Pacific Area ( 1943 – 44 ); U. S. Army Forces, Pacific Ocean Areas ( 1944 – 45 ); and U. S. Army Forces, Middle Pacific ( 1945 – 47 ).

The highway was built by the U. S. Army in 1943 as an alternate route from the Pacific Ocean to the Alaska Highway, in case the White Pass and Yukon Route railway from Skagway should be blocked.

There is an exploration of another type of extreme situation in those works of Hanley which deal with a shipwreck, such as “ Narrative ” ( 1931 ), and the World War II novels The Ocean ( 1941 ), Sailor ’ s Song ( 1943 ), though these extreme situations are undergone by groups of men, and “ were primarily inspiriting in their representation of maritime heroism ” ( Fordham 165 ).

On Christmas Day, 1943, Ocean Pier burned down.

The film notes in its closing credits that during the first 11 days of March 1943, the U-boats sank 12 Allied ships in the Indian Ocean.

As the end credits of the 1980 film The Sea Wolves state, " during the first 11 days of March 1943, U-boats sank 12 Allied ships in the Indian Ocean.

On 21 November 1943, the American submarine USS Nautilus landed a company of 78 U. S. Marine Corps Amphibious Reconnaissance Scouts with Australian Army Lt George Hand formerly of the Ocean Island Defence Force acting as an interpreter to seize the island.

In March 1943 Lüth set out for a second patrol off South Africa and in the Indian Ocean, in particular the waters around Mauritius.