Status - John Skinner - USS Fullam:
John was on duty at his new destroyer, the USS Fullam, at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston. Activity would be picking up onboard ship as the Fullam neared it commissioning date of March 2nd.
South Pacific
The Navy has begun to get more ships into the theater, including newer battleships, and more cruisers and destroyers. More fleet carriers will not be coming soon; but 3 slower, smaller escort carriers have arrived to supplement Saratoga and Enterprise.
Having advanced to the Russell Islands, the next target will be New Georgia and the surrounding group of islands. The Navy is planning to send two cruiser-destroyer task forces to shell Japanese bases on these islands.
More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 314-315.
- Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 1-106.
NEXT POST: MARCH 5TH
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