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| 1943 May 16 |
| | | Two hydroelectric schemes in the Ruhr valley are destroyed by the RAF's Dam Busters and their bouncing bombs in Operation Chastise | |
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| 1943 July 10 |
| | | British and American troops land in Sicily to begin the Italian campaign | |
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| 1943 July 13 |
| | | Hitler's attempt to take Kursk (in response to Stalingrad) results in the German loss of 70,000 men and 1500 tanks | |
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| 1943 July |
| | | Belsen, used as a prisoner-of-war camp since 1940, is turned into a concentration camp | |
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| 1943 July 25 |
| | | The king of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, has Mussolini arrested and appoints in his place a field marshal, Pietro Badoglio | |
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| 1943 July 28 |
| | | The Hamburg Fire Department coins the word Feuersturm ('firestorm') to describe the unprecedented effects of an RAF raid on the city | |
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| 1943 August 3 |
| | | Italians signs a secret armistice with the Allies, as Allied troops land in Sicily | |
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| 1943 August 8 |
| | | British general Harold Alexander is appointed commander-in-chief of all Allied forces in the Italian campaign | |
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| 1943 August 12 |
| | | On Hitler's orders, the SS rescue Mussolini from house arrest in the mountains of central Italy | |
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| 1943 August 16 |
| | | All German and Italian troops are by now driven out of Sicily or captured by the Allies | |
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