page_title: October 1943
section_title: October 14, 1943 (Thursday)
hierarchical_section_title: October 1943 / October 14, 1943 (Thursday)
caption_attribution_description: English: The Inauguration of José P. Laurel as the third President of the Philippines and the first president of the Second Philippine Republic under Japan occurred on October 14, 1943. The inauguration marked the marked the beginning of the first term of José P. Laurel as President.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in October 1943:
context_section_description: Jewish prisoners at the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland launched an uprising against their German captors.  The attack, co-ordinated by Leon Feldhendler and Captain Alexander Pechersky (a Soviet prisoner of war), was partially successful.  Eleven German SS men and several Ukrainian guards were killed, and about 300 of the 700 inmates were able to escape.  Many of the escapees died when they fled through the minefields that surrounded the death camp, and others were recaptured and killed, but about 50 were able to survive.  Those prisoners who had elected not to escape were killed and the camp was closed.
  In the second raid on the German industrial city of Schweinfurt, the U.S. Eighth Air Force sent 291 B-17 bombers sent to attack Germany's ball bearing factories, and were met several hundred German fighters.  Sixty of the bombers were shot down, and another 133 were heavily damaged, while the Germans lost 35 fighters. It took four months for the Eighth Air Force to return to full capacity.
  José P. Laurel, formerly a justice of the Philippines Supreme Court, took the oath of office as President of the nominally-independent Second Philippine Republic, under the sponsorship of Japan.  The Republic's first act was to sign an alliance with Japan.
caption: President Laurel
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