9 accounts found for “1943”
Soldiers of the 853rd Engineer Aviation Battalion (HMT Rohna)
On November 26, 1943, a German guided missile sank the troop transport HMT Rohna off Algeria, killing 1,015 American soldiers — the largest loss of American tro...
Rotmistrz Witold Pilecki, Polish Secret Army / Home Army
In September 1940, Polish cavalry officer Witold Pilecki deliberately got himself arrested by the Nazis to be transported to Auschwitz, where he spent nearly th...
Irena Sendler ("Jolanta"), Polish Social Worker, Żegota operative
Operating as "Jolanta," Polish social worker Irena Sendler smuggled 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto in suitcases, crates, toolboxes, and under pi...
Joachim Rønneberg and the six-man Gunnerside team, SOE/Kompani Linge
In February 1943, six Norwegian saboteurs trained by British SOE parachuted into the mountains of Telemark, skied for days in Arctic conditions to reach the Vem...
Glyndwr Michael ("Major William Martin"); Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu, XX Committee
In 1943, British intelligence took the body of a Welsh vagrant who had died of pneumonia, dressed him as a Royal Marine officer named "Major William Martin," lo...
442nd Regimental Combat Team; Senator Daniel Inouye (Company E)
While their families were confined in American internment camps under Executive Order 9066, Japanese American soldiers of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team becam...
Fritz Kolbe ("George Wood"), German Foreign Ministry; Allen Dulles, OSS Bern
In August 1943, German Foreign Office official Fritz Kolbe walked unannounced into the British legation in Bern and offered to hand over top secret Nazi communi...
Corporal Wojtek, 22nd Artillery Supply Company, Polish II Corps
Found as a cub in the mountains of Iran, Wojtek was adopted by soldiers of the Polish 22nd Artillery Supply Company. He learned to carry artillery shells by wat...
Sophie Scholl (b. May 9, 1921 – d. February 22, 1943) and Hans Scholl, White Rose
On February 18, 1943, Munich university student Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans were caught distributing anti-Nazi leaflets by shoving a stack off a balcony....