Thursday, April 27, 2023

April 26, 1943 - Monday - 80 years ago today

Status - John Skinner - USS Daly: 

USS Daly (DD-519) - Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

April 23rd: Left port at 8 AM, returned 5 PM.  General Quarters, Drills.  Some men off ship for gunnery and radar training.

April 24th: Left port at 8 AM, returned 3 PM.  General Quarters, Drills.  Some men off ship for gunnery training.

April 25st:  Left port at 8 AM, returned 3 PM.  General Quarters, Drills.  Some men off ship for gunnery and torpedo training.

April 26th: Left port at 8 AM.  Some men off ship for training.

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 In Africa, remaining Axis forces in Tunisia were barely holding out as the Allies used a two-army pincer movement to force them off the continent.  By mid-May, all the Axis forces had surrendered in Africa.  This would lead to the invasion of Sicily in July.

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