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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1943:

1 Events

January

• January 27 - the USAAF makes its first daylight raid on GermanyThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east
• January 30January 30 is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 335 days remaining, (336 in leap years). Events 1595 William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is performed for the first time. 1649 King Charles I of England is beheaded. 1781 Artic - Royal Air ForceThe Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF is the air force of the United Kingdom. History Formation and Early History The Royal Flying Corps was formed by Royal Warrant on May 13, 1912 superseding the Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers. The Royal Na de Havilland MosquitoThe de Havilland Mosquito ("the wooden wonder") was a military aircraft that excelled in a number of roles during World War II. It was a twin engine aircraft with the pilot and navigator sitting side-by-side. Unorthodox in design, it utilised a wooden strs make the first daylight air-raid on BerlinBerlin [ bɛrˈliːn ] is the national capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,387,404 inhabitants (as of September 2004); down from 4. 5 million before World War II. Berlin is located on the rivers Spree and Havel in the northea
• January 30- 31January 31 is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 334 days remaining, (335 in leap years). Also, this is the final day of January. Events 1504 France cedes Naples to Aragon. 1606 Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plo – the H2S radarThe H2S radar was used in bombers of RAF Bomber Command, it was designed to identify targets on the ground for night and all weather bombing. On January 30 1943 H2S radar is used by RAF bombers for navigation for the first time and so became the first gro is used by RAF bombers for navigation for the first time

April

• April 15April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). There are 260 days remaining. Events 1450 Battle of Formigny; Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending E - Operation Flax is put into effect, the systematic targeting by Allied fighter pilots of Luftwaffe transport aircraft bound for North Africa
• April 18 - Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his Mitsubishi G4M is ambushed by USAAF P-38 Lightnings over Bougainville

May

• May 17- 18 - specially modified RAF Avro Lancasters of 617 Squadron make the " Dambusters" raids on the Möhne , Eder , and Sorpe dams

June

• June 11 - the Italian garrison on Pantellaria surrenders after taking heavy bombing, the first ground captured by air power alone.
• June 24- 25 - the RAF uses chaff, codenamed " Window", for the first time to foil German radar during the Operation Gomorrah raids on Hamburg.

July

• July 18 - US Navy airship K-74 is shot down by a German submarine, the only airship lost to enemy fire during World War II.

August

• August 1 - Soviet fighter ace Lydia Litvak is shot down and killed. She had 12 victories at the time of her death.
• August 1 - USAAF B-24 Liberators flying from Libya attack the Ploesti oil refineries in Romania.
• August 13 - the USAAF makes its first bombing raid on Austria
• August 17 - 59 USAAF bombers are lost in raids on Regensburg and Schweinfurt.
• August 17 - first operational use of the radio-controlled Henschel Hs 293 anti-ship missile
• August 17- 18 - RAF bombers attack the German missile research station at Peenemünde.

September

• September 9 - Italian battleship Roma is sunk by two Fritz X radio controlled glide bombs
• September 11 - French fighter ace Pierre Le Gloan (18 victories) died in a crash
• September 12 - Benito Mussolini is freed in a daring rescue by Walter Gerlach in a Fieseler Storch
• September 15- 16 - first use of the " Tall Boy" 12,000 lb (5,455 kg) bomb by RAF Lancasters.
• September 22- 24, Ernst Jachmann flies his single-seat glider 55 hrs and 51 min in a thermal.