January 1943
1st	Russians squeeze German Army into pocket of 100 sq miles. Japanese withdraw from Guadacanal after bitter fighting.
14th	Summit at Casablanca, Roosevelt, Churchill and military advisers Stalin refused to leave Russia because of fighting.
20th	Himmler demands more trains to wind up the extermination o the Jews quickly even though they are needed desperately ferry supplies to Eastern front.
23rd	Tripoli falls to Monty' s desert Army
18th	16th month long siege of Leningrad begins to crack
21st	Jews arms uprising in Warsaw Ghetto - only one survived the fighting. 23 British school girls killed in German Air Raid on Southern England.
	The unbelievable extermination of millions of 'undesirables' by German Nazi's.
30th	Two daylight attacks by RAF on Berlin.
FEBRUARY 1943
2nd	Germans surrender at Stalingrad. Field Marshal von Paulus surrenders to a Red Army lieutenant. 200,000 German troops killed or died of starvation and cold since Stalingrad was surrounded. POWs on the Eastern Front.
6th	Himmler receives an inventory of goods taken from murdered Polish Jews including 825 rail wagons of clothing for redistribution in Germany and a wagon full of women's hair.
7th	Hitler says that "If Germany loses the war the German people rather than the Nazi Party will be to blame.
8th	Himmler orders special arrangements to be taken at concentration camps to prevent mass break outs during air raids. Churchill talks to Commandos Russians recapture Kursk.
12th	142 RAF bombers hit Milan. Rostov and Voroshilograd recaptured by Red Army.
19th	Red Army captures Cracow. Red Army breaks German 16 month encirclement of Leningrad. Allied troops take Tripoli in North Africa. Red Army retakes Voroshilovsk.
24th	Eighth Army in pursuit of Rommel into Tunisia.
28th	9 British trained Norwegian commandos pulled off one of the most daring and difficult sabotage operations on German atomic weapons research laboratories. Hitler orders mobilisation of German population from 16 to 65.
	Churchill visits the Troops in North Africa.
MARCH 1943
3rd	King reported to have a part time job in munitions factory. 178 people die in London Underground Shelter accident.
5th	Germans demand 100,000 forced workers from France.
9th	Government promises a unified National Health Scheme. Nine Polish villages raised in reprisals for attacks on Germans.
	US Navy in action. MacArthur claims victory in Battle of Bismark Sea.
13th	German Army officers plotting the assassination of Hitler planted a bomb made from British plastic explosives aboard his plane. The bomb failed to explode. Detonator was a dud. Germans re-enters Kharkov.
16th	U Boat pack sinks eight Merchant ships.
20th	Col: Rudolph von Gersdorff planned to blow himself up with the Hitler - but Hitler left early.
	General Giraud in Algiers issues decree abolishing Nazi anti Semitic laws in France.
21st	Churchill broadcasts on his vision for Britain after the war - it strikes Conservatives as socialist in tone.
23rd	Himmler told that 1,419,467 European Jews killed since beginning of the war.
25th	Der Sturmer - the Nazi Newspaper announces "the extermination of the Jews is in progress".
28th	Montgomery telegraphs Churchill 8th Army defeats Rommel at Tunisia
30th	973 civilians killed and 1,191 wounded in air raids since 1st January.
	USAAF Attacks Japanese shipping in the Pacific
April 1943
17th	Germans finds Poles buried in Katyn forest mass grave. A Russian peasant called upon the German Police at Katyn saying "The Poles are looking for their officers in Siberia . . but they lie here in the forest". The Germans dug up 4,100 Polish officers all shot in the back of the neck.
19th	Jewish uprising in Warsaw ghetto and drive 2,000 heavily armed SS Troops from the Ghetto.
21st	Roosevelt condemns Japanese execution of US PoWs and warns perpetrators will face trial after the war. Government permits Church Bells to ring again.
30th	1.3 million forced labourers from occupied countries now working as slaves for Germany.

The purpose of these pages is to tell the story of Churchill's life - not to give a detailed account of the wars he was involved in, for that is a vast subject.

To obtain an idea of the cause and magnitude of the war, examine the monthly calender for each year - they include many photographs.

It is important to remember that heavy censorship of news took place throughout them, and therefore knowledge of many of these events was not available until long after they happened - or until after the wars had ended.

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CHURCHILL'S SPEECHES The Full Texts from 1936 to 1946.

Short biography of President Roosevelt
Short biography of General Eisenhower
Short biography of President Truman
Short biography of Hitler
Short biography of Stalin
Short biography of Mussolini
Short biography of The Japanese War Lords

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