February

23 February 1943 - HMS Rhexenor was torpedoed by a German submarine and 16 sailors were rescued in Jost van Dyke, one of the British Virgin Islands.

May

3 May 1943 - First ever secondary school and library are opened in the Territory by Thomas Dixon Green, the inaugural principal.

August

17 August - the St. Thomas Labor Industrial Association is formed by a group of skilled and unskilled workmen.

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