October 1943
• October 1 – Start of a statewide scrap drive. Nine men were killed when their B-17 bomber crashed east of Big Sandy.
• October 7 – A pilot was killed when his fighter plane crashed east of Stockett.
• October 9 – Antelope season ended after 657 antelope were harvested statewide.
• October 11 – Three Gore Field fliers were killed in a B-24 crash at Colorado Springs.
• October 13 – Italy declared war on Germany.
• October 14 – One passenger died, and 58 were injured when the Milwaukee Road Olympian train derailed near Miles City after the tracks washed out. Most of the victims were servicemen and WACs.
• October 16 – A fire in Billings caused $170,000 damage to the Stockman’s Bar, the Elks Club, and the Midland Bank Building.
• October 20 – Two dead, two injured in a Billings house fire.
• October 23 – A fighter pilot was killed in a crash near Lewistown. A hit-and-run driver killed a Billings woman.
• October 28 – Havre hosted 400 Farm Union delegates.
Montana History Calendar 1930s
November 1943 (coming soon)
Learn more about what was happening October 1943 in Montana and check out Montana’s Home Front During World War II
