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Everything about 1943 In Aviation totally explainedThis is a list of aviation-related events from 1943:
Events
January
April
April 15 - 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 T1-323, 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 Ploieşti 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 8 - Frascati bombing raid September 8, 1943
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 Otto Skorzeny
September 15-16 - first use of the "Tallboy" 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.
First flights
January
January 9 - Lockheed Constellation prototype NX67900
February
February 4 - Bristol Buckingham
March
March 5 - Gloster Meteor prototype DG206
June
June 15 - Arado Ar 234V1 GK+IV
July
July 13 - Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender
August
August 7 - Ilyushin Il-6
September
September 20 - De Havilland Vampire prototype LZ548
September 22 - DFS 228
October
October 23 - Vickers Windsor
October 26 - Dornier Do 335V1 CP+UA
November
November 17 - P-75 Eagle
December
December 2 - Grumman XF7F
Entered service
January
Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle with No. 295 Squadron RAF
January 10 - Fairey Barracuda with No. 827 Squadron FAA
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