1943 (Earth-Prime)

This is a timeline of events that occurred during **1943**.

## *`Events`*

	+ Captain America and his Howling Commandos invade and destroy a HYDRA facility in Belgium.
* **January 21**
	+ Indiana Jones and George McHale discover the Heart of Darkness.

#### February

* **February 2**
	+ Captain America and his Howling Commandos invade and destroy a HYDRA facility in Czechoslovakia.
* **February 14**
	+ Sonny Conorato is born in Bohan, Liberty City.
* **February 22**
	+ Alvin Pierce is born.

#### March

* **March 16**
	+ Piermont Winston is born in Charming, California.
* **March 19**
	+ Frank Nitti dies.
* **March 29**
	+ Captain America tries to get a file from HYDRA agents in London, who run away and attempt to hide in an air raid shelter. The Captain encourages the citizens inside the shelter to attack the agents by giving them a speech of heroism and strength in numbers.

#### April

* April 6
	+ General John McGinnis' soldiers raid the laboratories of Howard Stark, stealing all documents about his research and the Midnight Oil, a defensive gas created by Stark.
	+ Wanting to help the Soviet Armed Forces in crushing the German defenses in the city of Finow in Germany, Air Force planes fly over the battlefield and release the Midnight Oil. However, the gas has a different effect on the Soviets then they were expecting.
	+ Hundreds of soldiers went mad and began killing everyone around them. One of the only few soldiers to survive is Johann Fennhoff, who survived by putting a gas mask on his face. His borhter, however, was not as lucky, having been killed along with 246 of his comrades.
* **April 15**
	+ On the orders of Derek Pappalardo, Vinci enforcer Steve Coyne kills Antonio Scaletta by shooting him in the back and he falls into the water and drowns.
* **April 22**
	+ Vito Scaletta and his mother and sister holds a funeral for Antonio Scaletta, which is also attended by Antonio's siblings.
* **April 28**
	+ Late one night, Vito Scaletta, along Joe Barbaro, robs a jewelry store. Momentarily after, a police officer appears and lights a cigarette, and notices Joe and Vito robbing the store.
	+ After attempting to escape the police officer, Joe jumps the fence and Vito throws filled with jewelry over to Joe. When Vito attempts to jump the fence, the police officer arrives and points his gun at him, prompting Vito to signaling Joe to run, and Vito gets arrested.
* **April 29**
	+ 7 hours after his arrest, a detective and an MP officer enters the interrogating room, and tells Vito Scaletta that he has two options, one; he go to fight in the war, and his record erased, or two; he can go to prison. After spending 10 minutes thinking about it, Vito chooses to go fight in the war, instead of going to prison.

#### May

* **May 1**
	+ Vito Scaletta begins his military training at an army camp.
* **May 11**
	+ Captain America boards and captures the HYDRA submarine Leviathan.
	+ Using the Leviathan submarine, Captain America and the Howling Commandos infiltrate the HYDRA U-Base, and end up helping the HYDRA staff, who had been merged into a monster due to the Hydra Serum.

#### June

* **June 4**
	+ In Argentina, a coup d'êtat removes Ramón Castillo from power.
* **June 7**
	+ The Nazi are defeated at Stalingrad.
* **June 8**
	+ The Allied forces launch the invasion of German-occupied western Europe, landing in Normandy, France.
* **June 11**
	+ At an army camp for the Soviet Armed Forces, Johann Fennhoff is interrupted by a surgeon needing his assistance during an amputation of the leg of a soldier called Ovechkin.
	+ To help the soldier, Fennhoff uses his hypnosis-technique on him. As Ovechkin is completely focused on a memory of a chess game he had with his mother before enlisting in the army, the surgeons amputate his leg without him feeling any pain.
* **June 17**
	+ The Legends arrive in 1943 with Bishop and lock him in the mansion.
	+ The time machine breaks again, so they smuggle components out of a nearby airplane factory in order to repair it.
	+ Meanwhile, Zari swaps out with Tarazi, and Astra inspires Behrad to stop Bishop from mooching while he teaches Nate taarof in order to appease the ancestors in the totem.
	+ Astra is taunted by the racist boss, Mr. Staples, and accidentally freezes him. She takes over and integrates the factories, prompting most of the white Rosies to quit, so she help the remaining Rosies finish building the plane.
	+ Bishop apologizes with a device that will allow Gideon to control the time machine.
	+ Eleanor Roosevelt comes to the factory and applauds their work, convincing a thawed Mr. Staples to allow them to keep their jobs.
	+ Eleanor asks Congress to integrate all factories (two years early), but this alerts A.I. Gideon, who sends soldiers to attack.
	+ Bishop kills two soldiers and sacrifices himself to allow the Legends to escape.
	+ The soldiers are to be robot clones of the Legends; the two dead ones are revealed to be the Zari and Astra robots.
* **June 19**
	+ After spending an intense short seven weeks, Vito Scaletta has been declared ready for war, finishing at the top of his group of recruits.
	+ An hour later, Vito Scaletta is shipped out from the camp alongside his fellow soldiers, and is sent to Italy.
* **June 24**
	+ Michael Grecco, Sr. marries Angelo Corleone's sister-in-law and Apollonia's sister, Mariella Vitelli.

#### July

* **July 11**
	+ Vito Scaletta fights with the 504th Parachute Infantry during the Allied liberation of Sicily. It is here that he witnesses first-hand the power of the Mafia.
	+ Vito Scaletta and his squad are en route to Southern Italy when their plane is hit by flak and goes down.
	+ Outnumbered and behind enemy lines, they join forces with the local resistance in an attempt to liberate the town of San Celeste.
	+ In the midst of battle, Don Calò, head of the Sicilian Mafia (Vizzini clan), arrives and instructs the Italian soldiers to surrender, which they do out of respect for him.
	+ An hour, Lucifer Morningstar and King Emmanuel III arranges for the arrest of Benito Mussolini.
	+ Two hours later, Benito Mussolini is arrested, due to the influence of Morningstar and the King of Italy.
* **July 23**
	+ Jonathan Krantz is born in Illinois.

#### August

* **August 3**
	+ Leo Galante is arrested for fixing fights.
* **August 22**
	+ The judge and jury sentences Leo Galante to five years in Hartmann Federal Penitentiary.

#### September

* **September 3**
	+ Due to Lucifer Morningstar's involvement, Italy fully surrenders to Allied invasion. Italy capitulates to the Allies, ending Mussolini and the Italian Army's role in World War II.
* **September 8**
	+ Pertti Järnefelt takes part of the volunteer SS Viking Brigade.
* September 12
	+ Kroegsmarine U-boats torpedo a ship off the Virginia coast.
	+ After a massively successful North African Campaign and invasion of Sicily, the Western Allies land on continental Italy.
	+ U.S. bombers hit Italian warships thirty-five times.
	+ An RAF raid destroys several vital German dams.
	+ Wreckage of a U-boat is discovered on the U.S. East Coast by locals.
	+ Another wave of bombers targeting Nazi satellite states destroy their objectives.
* **September 15**
	+ Jock Lindsey, with Reggie, goes on a fishing expedition on the River Nile.
* **September 20**
	+ Johann Fennhoff is captured by Leviathan, along with three other men.
	+ When one of them refuses to join because he wants to be with his family, he is stabbed in the jugular vein by Dottie Underwood, who is now a member of Leviathan. The remaining three are told that Pasha's family will be killed so that the whole family will be together again. Fennhoff chooses to remain alive by joining Leviathan.

#### November

* **November 19**
	+ Nazi forces retake Zhitomir.

#### December

* **December 1**
	+ Toolache Wallabys went extinct.

## *`Births`*

* Janis Joplin was born on January 19, 1943.
* George Harrison was born on January 25, 1943.
* Sonny Conorato was born on February 14, 1943.
* David Cronenberg was born on March 15, 1943.
* Sylvester Stewart was born on March 15, 1943.
* Piney Winston was born on March 16, 1943.
* Yolande Cornelia Giovanni, Jr. was born on June 7, 1943.
* Jonathan Krantz was born on July 23, 1943.
* Jaromir Malek was born on October 5, 1943.
* Chevy Chase was born on October 8, 1943.
* R.L. Stine was born on October 8, 1943.

## *`Deaths`*

* Nikola Tesla died on January 7, 1943.
* Frank Nitti died on March 19, 1943.
* Antonio Scaletta died on April 15, 1943.

## *`Marriages`*

* Marriage of Michael Grecco, Sr. and Mariella Vitelli.