What day of the week was August 17, 1943?

The day of the week August 17th, 1943 fell on was a Tuesday.

World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission. World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina the Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily. World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill the Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins. World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra the the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program.