Jaime Hernandez The 1943 Doubled Die Obverse Washington Quarter is by far the scarcest major doubled die for the entire Washington quarter dollar over twenty years PCGS has only graded about two dozen 1943 doubled die quarters Since the coins bring hundreds of dollars even in lower grades the PCGS population data is a good indicator of this coins scarcity

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List of shipwrecks 1 April 1943 Ship Country Description Aquila Italy World War II The cargo ship ran aground at Ras Ahmer west of Cape Bon Tunisia and was later whole crew survived Benevento Italy World War II The cargo ship was torpedoed in the Mediterranean Sea off Cape Zebib Tunisia by HMMTB 315 Royal Navy and had to be run aground

By December 1943 the United States and its allies were well on the way to winning World War II though nearly two years of hard fighting lay ahead The US Navy had expanded greatly since the nations entry into the war two years earlier fighting the German submarine offensive in the Atlantic while supporting operations throughout the ETO even

January 30 1943 Task Force 16 in cruising formation 11 ENTERPRISE guide steaming on course 017°T and at 28 knots 1330 0100 Despatch received from Commander Task Force 16 stated that during the night of 2930 January Task Force 18 had been attacked by enemy torpedo planes and bombers south of Guadalcanal CHICAGO had been

1943 Chronology Rennell Island Jan 2930 1943 Repair at Pearl Harbor MayJuly 1943 Bremerton Refit JulyOctober 1943 Gilbert Islands Landings Nov 19 Dec 4 1943

Activated as the 100th Armored Reconnaissance Battalion on 15 March 1943 organic to the 20th Armored Division redesignated 33d Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron Mechanized on 10 September 1943 Arrived Le Havre France 17 February 1945 Bardenburg Germany 30 March Troop B committed to battle near Munich 27 April rest of squadron followed

September 11 1943 France — French fighter ace Pierre Le Gloan 18 victories dies in a crash 1 September 11 1943 Salerno Italy — A Luftwaffe Dornier Do217 bomber badly damages the Navy light cruiser USS Savannah CL42 with a “Fritz X” off Salerno Italy knocking her out of service for a year

New V12 Navy College Treaining program will be inaugurated about July 1 1943 will absorb modt of the college students now enlistedin the Navy and Marine Corps those who enlisted in the Army Enlisted Reserve Crops with Navy Marine Corps or Coast Guard preference and those whoholdl student probationary commissions in the

23 Vweapon sites in the Pas de Calais area of France are hit 478 of 526 B17s 192 of 196 B24s hit the targets at 13301510 hours BonnièressurSeine France and Beauvoir France 2 B24s are damaged beyond repair and 85 B17s are damaged casualties are 4 is the largest number of aircraft carrying out attacks of any Eighth Air Force mission to date and the first of its major