14 Oct 1943
  • German troops cleared the Zaporozhe bridgehead, retreating across the Dneiper River in southern Ukraine. ww2dbase [TH]
  • Submarine Segundo was laid down. ww2dbase [Segundo | CPC]
  • Natoma Bay was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Natoma Bay | CPC]
  • Canberra (Baltimore-class) was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Canberra (Baltimore-class) | CPC]
  • USS Dorado failed to arrive at the Panama Canal Zone, and aircraft were launched to search, without success, for the submarine. Early suggestions that she was sunk in error by a US Mariner aircraft was later concluded as incorrect, and it seemed likely that her loss was attributable to an unknown accident on board or to a German naval mine. ww2dbase [Dorado | AC, CPC]
  • USS Pompon attacked a Japanese oiler in the Gulf of Siam; all 4 torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Pompon | CPC]
  • Oberleutnant Walter Nowotny, Commanding officer of the I/JG54 group, became the first pilot in the world to achieve 250 kills, for which feat he would receive Germany's second highest award, Diamonds to his Knight's Cross medal, awarded to him by Adolf Hitler. ww2dbase [AC]
  • USS Nicholas covered a convoy of LSTs unloading at Barakoma, Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Nicholas | Solomon Islands Campaign | DS]
France Germany Hawaii Pacific Ocean
  • USS Grayback sank a Japanese passenger-cargo ship in the East China Sea, hitting her with 1 of 4 torpedoes. ww2dbase [Grayback | East China Sea | CPC]
Philippines
  • Japan declared the independence of the Philippines. As with other territories however the independence was nominal and civil freedoms muted. ww2dbase [AC]
Poland
  • Prisoners at Sobibór concentration camp in occupied Poland, led by Byelorussian Jew Alexander Pechersky, killed 11 SS officers and seized the armory. 158 prisoners were killed during this action. Of those who succeeded in escaping, 53 were killed outside the camp, and 107 were captured and executed. Only 58 avoided capture; many of them would join partisan units. ww2dbase [Sobibór Concentration Camp | Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Sobibór, Lublin | CPC]
United States Photo(s) dated 14 Oct 1943
WAVES personnel in the low pressure chamber of  Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 14 Oct 1943, photo 1 of 3WAVES personnel in the low pressure chamber of  Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 14 Oct 1943, photo 2 of 3WAVES personnel in the low pressure chamber of  Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 14 Oct 1943, photo 3 of 3Canberra underway, Boston harbor, Massachusetts, United States, 14 Oct 1943, photo 1 of 4
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Timeline Section Founder: Thomas Houlihan
Contributors: Alan Chanter, C. Peter Chen, Thomas Houlihan, Hugh Martyr, David Stubblebine
Special Thanks: Rory Curtis




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