Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) - New York
June 26th: In port all day.
June 27th: In port all day. Fueling in the afternoon.
June 28th: At sea at 2 PM for the rest of the day, returning at midnight. Ammunition received in morning; 5-inch shells, 40 mm and 20mm, and rifle cartridges.
June 29th: At sea at 8 AM, returned at 6 PM.
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Daly would soon depart New York and transit through the Panama Canal to the Pacific, initially arriving at San Diego. Daly would be in the screen of the new Essex-class carrier Lexington (CV-16), named after the carrier earlier lost during the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Landings began on New Georgia in the Solomon Islands.
In Germany, at Peenemunde, tests of the supersonic V-2 rocket were conducted. The first test failed but the second was successful, with the missile landing in the Baltic Sea. At this time there were still many problems with the V-2, and it would not enter service until September of 1944. Over 3,000 V-2s were launched by German forces during the war. This was in addition to about 30,000 of the subsonic V-1 "buzz bombs" that were used to attack Allied cities in 1944-45 as well.
More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, p. 351.
- Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 22-52.
- Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 120-140.
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