February 1943
month of 1943
The following events occurred in February 1943:
February 1, 1943 (Monday)
The 442nd Infantry Regiment, whose soldiers were Nisei (Americans of Japanese ancestry), was created by order of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. "No natural citizen of the United States," said the President, "should be denied the democratic right to exercise the responsibilities of his citizenship, regardless of his ancestry." Most Nisei in the mainland United States were still kept in internment camps at the time.
Japanese forces on Guadalcanal began the actual withdrawal phase of Operation Ke. The Americans mistakenly believed the naval activity signaled a new offensive and put up little opposition.
Vittorio Ambrosio replaced Ugo Cavallero as supreme commander of Italian forces.
The American destroyer De Haven was bombed and sunk east of Savo Island in the Solomon Islands by Japanese aircraft, with the loss of 167 troops. The wreckage of De Haven would be discovered at the bottom of "Ironbottom Sound" 49 years later, by oceanographer Robert Ballard in 1992, and with its identification confirmed on July 8, 2025.
February 2, 1943 (Tuesday)
The Soviet Union announced that the 163-day Battle of Stalingrad had ended after the last of the German Sixth Army forces surrendered.
Born: Akhtar Raza Khan, Muslim scholar, and Grand Mufti of India; in Bareilly, United Provinces, British India (now Uttar Pradesh state) (d. 2018)
Died: Sir Rao Ganga Singh, 62, British Indian General, the only non-white member of the Imperial War Cabinet constituted by Britain during World War One, and the penultimate Maharaja of Bikaner
February 3, 1943 (Wednesday)
The U.S. troop transport Dorchester, with 904 men on board, was torpedoed 150 miles off of the coast of Greenland by the German submarine U-233.
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